Detroit Free Press, Detroit News Both Call for Mayor Kilpatrick to Step Down

MLive/AP, Detroit Newspapers ^ | 03/24/08

[Kieri]

Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News call for mayor to step down 3/24/2008, 10:12 p.m. EDT The Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — The city's major newspapers on Monday called for the resignation of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in the interest of what's good for Detroit after he was charged with perjury and other offenses.

Editorials urging Kilpatrick to quit were posted on the Web sites of the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.

The Free Press said: "If Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick loves Detroit as much as he says he does, he has to quit." The editorial added: "Detroit cannot afford the ugly spectacle of Kilpatrick clinging to office while facing felony charges."

The News said: "To make things right Kilpatrick should step aside and accept responsibility for his improper conduct in the police whistleblowers scandal."

The editorial also said: "Now, Detroit suffers the embarrassing distinction of being led by a mayor under charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office."

Kilpatrick, 37, was charged after a trove of raunchy text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with his chief aide. He says he plans to stay on the job while fighting the charges.

His former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick had an intimate relationship in 2002 and 2003, was charged with many of the same offenses.

Worthy began her investigation in late January, the day after the Free Press published excerpts from 14,000 text messages that were sent or received in 2002-03 from Beatty's city-issued pager.

[Kieri]

Detroit News Editorial: for the good of Detroit, Mayor should step down http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/OPINION01/803240433

Detroit Free Press: For the good of the city, resign http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/OPINION01/303240005

[Man50D]

He should step down so he can run for Governor of New York.

[mylife]

LoL!

[TCats]

Just more of the conspiracy between Whitey and the Detroit Media to discriminate against the Black Man. /sarc

[NonValueAdded]

The editorial also said: "Now, Detroit suffers the embarrassing distinction of being led by a mayor under charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office."

Now where have I heard that list of charges before? I guess they qualify his wife to run for mayor.

[milwguy]

They have to cut a deal with her for testimony or they both will get off. No way a jury of his ‘peers’ will ever convict him, no matter what the evidence shows.

[Petronski]

"If Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick loves Detroit as much as he says he does, he has to quit."

If dat love's legit,
He's gotta quit!

[denydenydeny]

But still a superdelegate, I imagine.

[manic4organic]

Kwa-meee, how they hate ya, how they hate ya.

[Chode]

we have enough local scum thank you... don't need to import any more from detroit.

[Viking2002]

"Marion Berry wuz mah role model....."

[Supercharged Merlin]

Any wonder why Detroit is a s**t-hole? We’ve had a string of mayors like this going all the way back to Coleman Young.

[FrdmLvr]

Fortunately there are tons of voters (juries are selected from voter registration lists in Michigan) in Wayne county, more in the suburbs than in the city, so I think the jury pool will not be so favorable to Kwame. Kwame’s only real supporters are people who are on the payroll or their family members, which are a lot, but compared to the rest of the population, not so much. Hey, he lost big time in the whistleblower lawsuit last fall. I can’t wait for this trial.

[TCats]

That's true (That he lost the Whistle-blower Trial) and that gives me some level of confidence. Unfortunately, that was a Civil Trial and in the upcoming Criminal trial it will only take one Juror to stop the enforcement of justice. It is very likely there will be at least one brain numbed Racial Robot to accomplish this.

[VOA]

Detroit Free Press, Detroit News Both Call for Mayor Kilpatrick to Step Down

Once again Democrats are pretending to be sane, rational, moral
human beings.
So they can lie their way into The Oval Office.

That's the only real reason for the political downfall of Spitzer
and Kwame.
In states/municipalities CRAWLING with Democrats/Liberals/Socialists.

After all, didn't Democrats spend nearly a decade telling us
that the sex-lives of Democratic politicians didn't really matter?

Now they sacrifice two of their golden-boys in order to get
JUST ENOUGH VOTES from religious/moral people in flyover country
that shouldn't fall for this sort of fakery.

[Southack]

Aye. Kwame is a super-delegate, as is his mother Carolyn.

[Ditto]

The Free Press said: "If Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick loves Detroit as much as he says he does, he has to quit." The editorial added: "Detroit cannot afford the ugly spectacle of Kilpatrick clinging to office while facing felony charges."

Kilpatrick will do what he wants. No doubt if he followed his predecessors, he has enough cash stashed to keep him a couple of lifetimes. And he'll be replaced by someone equally corrupt from top to bottom.

The only hope for Detroit is receivership and to bring in some totally outside people more interested in bringing the city back to life than on continuing to suck it dry.

The establishment there is completly corrupt.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You forgot the lousy White rodents before Young. Young took a city in bad shape and flushed it down the toilet. I don’t think Detroit has had a decent (Republican) Mayor since Albert Cobo in the ‘50s. Of course, it was vastly different then. 2 million residents in the city (now below 900k) and still majority White (only about 10% White today).

[Grizzled Bear]

We’ve had a string of mayors like this going all the way back to Coleman Young.

I was out of the country when Mayor Archer was in office. How was he?

[MinuteGal]

I'm afraid to ask who the Lieutenant Governor is (don't be hesitant to answer, I'm inured to anything at this point.....).

Leni