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Kilpatrick, on the other hand, is staying in so much trouble that we're running out of material and we might have to start taking this thing seriously. God forbid.
Case in point: the order of a Wayne County judge that the mayor be sent to jail as a result of his violation of bond due to a perjury charge, stemming from his whole text messaging scandal. ...
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** FILE ** Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy addresses the media in her office in Detroit, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. The investigation into whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide committed perjury or other crimes during testimony in a highly publicized whistle-blowers' trial is all part of the job for the Wayne County prosecutor. And she doesn't even consider it the toughest assignment she's had since she's been in the prosecutor's office. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses the media during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a "no-confidence" vote. The council doesn't have the power to force Kilpatrick to step down. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses the media during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a "no-confidence" vote. The council doesn't have the power to force Kilpatrick to step down. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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** FILE ** Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox speaks during an interview in this April 11, 2005, file photo, in Lansing, Mich. Cox said Wednesday, March 12, 2008, that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should resign because he's a liar and a race-baiter "on par with David Duke and George Wallace," and no longer fit for office. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, file)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gives his State of the City address in Detroit, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. A prosecutor says she will announce in two weeks whether she will file perjury charges against the mayor and his former top aide. The case stems from a criminal probe of whether Kilpatrick lied under oath when he denied an affair with former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty that was revealed in the text messages. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gives his seventh State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick points towards his family before the start of his seventh State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
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The parents and sister of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (L), Ayanna (C) and Bernard Kilpatrick stand before the start of Mayor Kilpatrick's State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
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DETROIT - MARCH 11: Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings says the Pledge of Alligiance before Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City address March 11, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Several members of the city council protested the Mayor by sitting in the audience instead of sitting on stage with the Mayor. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
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Protestors demonstrate outside of Orchestra Hall where Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was giving his State of the City address March 11, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Four members of the nine-member council declined to take their customary seats onstage with the mayor, who is in the midst of a text-messaging scandal involving charges of sexual misconduct and of perjury related to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by former police officers against the city. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY == (Photo credit should read BILL PUGLIANO/AFP/Getty Images)
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To his credit, Kilpatrick's jailing actually is the result of him sticking his neck out for the city. According to the Detroit News, the reason he got locked up is because he had to go to neighboring Windsor, Canada, to work on a deal to sell Detroit's share of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel. In effect, although he only traveled one mile, that not only means he left the state, but the country as well.
Damn! "If it weren't for bad luck, he wouldn't have no luck at all."
This also means that a surrogate city official Kandia Milton, has to take over city hall; the governor, Jennifer Granholm, who I'm sure would rather be participating in the presidential election on behalf of the Democratic Party, has to deal with a political crisis in her state's largest city; not to mention the city has to deal with a double-digit unemployment rate; a third-world infant mortality rate; hovering high-crime rate; which is exacerbated by a dropout rate of as much as 68 percent; and oh yeah, the industry upon which the entire city depends: autos, collapsing like a thousand dominoes.
Well, here's some good news: the mayor's mom Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick recently narrowly won the local Democratic primary, albeit only by about 1,700 votes. Okay, maybe that's not such good news, but at least she keeps her job in the Congressional Black Caucus -- that's if a Republican challenger doesn't jump up and convince black people in Detroit to vote GOP in November, which at this point I don't think is too far-fetched an idea, they've done it before.
Full disclosure: the reason I'm so hard on Motown is because it's my hometown and I really hate seeing it tank like this. Fifteen years ago, no matter what people said about Detroit, we could give the world a confident middle finger for dissing us. But now, when people talk trash, unfortunately much of it is true. Maybe we should have listened to the constructive criticism, even if it did come from white folks (which I'll admit is hard to do).
But all seriousness aside...
Listen, we at BV have been blogging on this whole Kwame deal for a minute. So if you've been reading us, you know we've tried our best to bring you the straight dope on this whole issue, despite how irreverent or shock-value oriented my writing can be. But for real, help us out. I really am running out of funny stuff to say about this. It's not like we've got Comedy Central's budget.
In fact, if Mr. Paul Mooney, who writes better jokes about black people than anyone else, would like to step in and commence the clowning, we would be much obliged.
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By: Michael Long on 8/11/2008 2:49PM
It seems like the bad black mayors get way too much press. I'm a white former Republican and I tend to think that Harold Washington of Chicago may have been the best mayor the United States has ever had of any color. Harold was a black liberal but what he did transcends race or party. He attacked graft with an honest conviction that I've never seen in practice.
"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Harold was a good man who should be celebrated for his accomplishments. I can understand the instinct of black people to rally around one of their own when they feel like he is under attack. It just seems a shame that mayors like Marion Berry and Kilpatrick fill the black press while mayors like Harold Washington are not celebrated.
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By: Cher W. on 9/04/2008 6:38PM
This all started with an allegded pary at the Mayor's Mansion where a strpper was assulted by Kwame's wife Carlita. When an investagtion into the party was started the the deputy cheif of police he was fired. Well the deputy cheif filed a Whistleblower's lawsuit and won for $8.4 million. It was during that trial that the mayr and is former chief of staff both perjured themselves on the stand. Not only did they lie about there affair. They lied about having the deputy chief fired.
Now that I have explained the story. It's such an embarassing time for the city.
I was born and raised in Detroit and I supported the Mayor in his first term but I started to see a pattern. A pattern of unaccoutability. So over time I really lost faith and all respect for Kwame and his mother Congress woman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. As his mother it seems that she has ok'd all of his wrong doings as a child and he thought that he could continue that as an adult. Example, my son broke the neighhbor's window throwing rocks. Was he supposed to be throwing rocks? No. I did not tell him it was ok and let him continue to throw rocks. He had to go to the neighbbor, apologize and pay for the window. Not only that He was on punishment for 3 months. I held him accountable for his actions. The City of Detroit needs to hold him accountable for his actions and yes he should be punished. We should not continue to make excuses for him and support his arrogant behavior and say that it's ok. It was not about the sex. I am not sure why everyone conitnues to say that. No one cares if he was sleeping around. HE LIED UNDER OATH. That's the bottom line. HE CONSPIRED TO HAVE A MAN FIRED. The city had to pay out 8.4 MILLION DOLLARS for his lying. That's what the messages showed.
It is not ok. I sympathize with his family but I sympathize more with the horrible image he left our great city. I really feel sorry for the people that think this has all happened beacuse he is black and he's young. Wake up people.
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By: MelissaEyes on 4/05/2009 3:15PM
A group of citizens of Melissa Texas 75454 who have grave concerns of the integrity of our Mayor David E. Dorman. We do feel the Rico Act concerns with public corruption is at the stem of our cities problems.
Mayor Dorman has a huge amount of property bought under various names including DHT & Flamingo Daze. We feel that he sold our water tower land to the city with insider information. This would only be one single issue that would cost the city money.
We desire to live with freedom in our city. To be able to speak at and ask questions of our leaders without the punishment that Mayor Dorman has cast on those that do. Many people in town have lost property at the gain of our officials. Millions of tax dollars spent on dirty attorneys for the mayor to fight private citizens.
To stay on the property we have purchased without it being stolen from us with no compensation which is what has occurred daily under the rein of Mayor David Dorman A fair election to be held without the mayor filing a lawsuit on candidates.
What Melissa stood for prior to Mayor David Dorman. We love the fact that the public corruption in our city will be put to a stop if we speak loud enough. An investigator has
We have a community who has had a majority of residents and business pushed off their property by this man and those in office with him. We believe they are puppets and follow his lead. These men and women will face criminal prosecution when an indictment is issued. Citizens have asked the integrity unit in Washington DC. Justice Dept to look into this matter
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