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Detroit mayor faces felony charges – CNN.com — Everything you do is being monitored. You’d think a pro would know that.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and an ex-aide were charged Monday with perjury and obstruction of justice after prosecutors said sexually explicit text messages between the two contradicted their sworn court testimony.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick reportedly sent romantic texts to his chief of staff, contradicting earlier testimony.
Kilpatrick defiantly declared his innocence just an hour after the charges were announced.
“This has been a very flawed process from the beginning,” said Kilpatrick at a press conference Monday. “I look forward to complete exoneration.”
Kilpatrick, who is married, has been snarled in a well-publicized sex scandal since January after The Detroit Free Press reported he exchanged romantic text messages with his then-chief of staff, Christine Beatty.
The paper reported in January that in an analysis of nearly 14,000 text messages on Beatty’s city-issued pager, it found some from 2002 and 2003 that indicated the two were having a romantic affair.
Big Deal,
So the guy has an affair with a co-worker and lies about it because it is personal and no ones business.. hmmm where have I heard that before. Ken Starr is behind this.. I know it!!
Aint this abit OLD…I thought I saw it on PBS..
I’ve go a suggestion!
Maybe public officials shouldn’t use public resources
So let me count the ways:
1) Using city cell phones (public property) for personal business is a no-no
2) Adultery is a no-no
3) Perjury is a no-no
4) Wrongful termination is a no-no
5) Hush money, especially from a public fund, is a no-no
This guy must have graduated with honors from the Karl Rove school of ethics!
It’s OK Everyone. God has already struck him down.
See how burnt he is?
Detroit is neck and neck with New Orleans for winning the gold medal for most outrageously corrupt, doomed, hopeless city in America.
Actually, I think Detroit wins it because New Orleans is rocking all that Katrina sympathy and they still have Brad Pitt and Shawn Penn down there swinging hammers.
It would not surprise me one bit if Kwame somehow survives this. The last time I was in Detroit he had a entirely different set of scandals involving no-show jobs and some kind of sham charity involving his wife and other members of his family. He seemed to get through that no problem.
Mr Kilpatrick will probably do a few months in club fed and come back and run for congress.
It was wrong not to mention this guy is a Democrat on the top. The article does state he is a Democrat.
Opening sentence of paragraph six. The newspaper report contradicted testimony Kilpatrick, a Democrat, … . But, it should have put a (D) after his name as is standard practice. With other political leaders.
Warden, the article has changed, perhaps in response to the criticism, or maybe they’ve changed the link on this blog. Yesterday, I did a search for Democrat, and it couldn’t find anything after De.
#19
You just had to get the daily Bill Clinton reference in.
#20
I know the reference was symbolic, but my god man… the use of neck and a black man in the same sentence is not really funny. What next, are we going to start talking about lynching people? Way to move into the absurd.
#23
I agree with everything you said, except for one. Since when is adultery against the law? It is against the law in select states, I do believe that Michigan is one of them. The problem, however, is that the Supremacy Clause makes all state cases null and void since the Court decided that individuals have a right to privacy if they are to consenting adults.
#Griswold v. Connecticut – married couples
#Eisenstadt v. Baird – unmarried couples
#Lawrence v. Texas – sexual preference
Following these Court cases adultery is unethical? Maybe. Career ending? Maybe. Against the law? Not really.
#25 – You forgot about D.C. The city gov there is as bad as it gets.