crimzy
Active Member
Well, most of you are probably not interested in Detroit city politics but what's going on here is absolutely ridiculous. Kwame Kilpatrick's reign as mayor has been riddled with controversy and scandal. There are the "minor" issues of him purchasing a loaded Lincoln Navigator for his wife with city money. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of city money have gone to his personal vacations, dinners, nightlife and general entertainment. He awarded over $45 million dollars of city contracts to his criminal buddy, Bobby Ferguson, without any fair bidding process, (wonder if he got a kick-back for that). All of this has been verified but still overlooked by the city for the most part.
Then comes the issue of the party at the Manoogian mansion. Kwame has always denied that this party ever happened. Out of this party, there was a police report where Kwame's wife beat up a stripper (that she allegedly found doing something inappropriate with her husband). This same stripper was found dead a couple of weeks later.
Three senior police officers began investigating the murder, assault and the connection to this party. Kwame fired these cops. Two of them brought a whistleblower action against the city (the other brought a separate case). The matter went to jury trial and a verdict was rendered against the city for approximately 6.5 million dollars. After the verdict came down Kwame renegotiated the deal and agreed to pay 9 million dollars with the stipulation that all of the personal information and documents that came out in discovery be kept confidential. He gave them another 2.5 million dollars of city money to try to keep his name clear!
After the trial, the newspaper was able to get copies of Kwame's text messages through the freedom of information act. It came out that Kwame was having an affair with his Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty. He lied about this under oath in the trial. The Wayne County prosecutor is now deciding whether or not to charge him with perjury. Of course Kwame called the prosecutor to let her know that he will no longer oppose her in the next election but I'm sure that's unrelated (yeah right). The Detroit city counsel is going to pass a formal resolution requesting that Kwame resign, although they don't have any power to remove him from office unless he gets charged with a crime.
Since this all came out, Kwame has refused to answer any questions about what's happened. Last night he gave his State of the City speech where he talked about all the wonderful things he's doing. At the end he went on a tirade about how he's being treated. He called out the city counsel member who refused to sit at the table with him. He described his treatment as "bigoted, lynch mob mentality". This guy even used the N word in his speech. To me this is unacceptable, as my children should not hear that word on network TV in such a forum.
The craziest thing about the situation is that a lot of ignorant people in the city are now coming in to defend this guy. It's as if all a black person has to do is cry racism and he is beyond reproach. He claimed that he's been called the N word and this inflaims some people to come to his support. He plays the race card and people forget that he has lied, cheated and stole from a city that's already in financial turmoil.
This is what I hate about politics. It seems that intelligence will never beat ignorance among the voters. These people re-elected him when all of this scandal was already out there. For all I know they would still re-elect this idiot. They can have him. Does any other state want to take Detroit off our hands? Canada? You can have it.
Then comes the issue of the party at the Manoogian mansion. Kwame has always denied that this party ever happened. Out of this party, there was a police report where Kwame's wife beat up a stripper (that she allegedly found doing something inappropriate with her husband). This same stripper was found dead a couple of weeks later.
Three senior police officers began investigating the murder, assault and the connection to this party. Kwame fired these cops. Two of them brought a whistleblower action against the city (the other brought a separate case). The matter went to jury trial and a verdict was rendered against the city for approximately 6.5 million dollars. After the verdict came down Kwame renegotiated the deal and agreed to pay 9 million dollars with the stipulation that all of the personal information and documents that came out in discovery be kept confidential. He gave them another 2.5 million dollars of city money to try to keep his name clear!
After the trial, the newspaper was able to get copies of Kwame's text messages through the freedom of information act. It came out that Kwame was having an affair with his Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty. He lied about this under oath in the trial. The Wayne County prosecutor is now deciding whether or not to charge him with perjury. Of course Kwame called the prosecutor to let her know that he will no longer oppose her in the next election but I'm sure that's unrelated (yeah right). The Detroit city counsel is going to pass a formal resolution requesting that Kwame resign, although they don't have any power to remove him from office unless he gets charged with a crime.
Since this all came out, Kwame has refused to answer any questions about what's happened. Last night he gave his State of the City speech where he talked about all the wonderful things he's doing. At the end he went on a tirade about how he's being treated. He called out the city counsel member who refused to sit at the table with him. He described his treatment as "bigoted, lynch mob mentality". This guy even used the N word in his speech. To me this is unacceptable, as my children should not hear that word on network TV in such a forum.
The craziest thing about the situation is that a lot of ignorant people in the city are now coming in to defend this guy. It's as if all a black person has to do is cry racism and he is beyond reproach. He claimed that he's been called the N word and this inflaims some people to come to his support. He plays the race card and people forget that he has lied, cheated and stole from a city that's already in financial turmoil.
This is what I hate about politics. It seems that intelligence will never beat ignorance among the voters. These people re-elected him when all of this scandal was already out there. For all I know they would still re-elect this idiot. They can have him. Does any other state want to take Detroit off our hands? Canada? You can have it.
