Posted on 05/16/2005 7:05:02 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Mayor will Repay City for Credit Card Bill
By Mary Conway
Web produced by Seth Myers
May 16, 2005
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Monday that he would write a check to cover questionable charges on his city of Detroit credit card.
The mayors announcement comes in advance of a newspaper article that is expected to detail more of the spending done with his card. That article is to be published Tuesday.
"Tomorrow I will write a check for everything that is in dispute with our credit card company. Everything, every dollar," Kilpatrick said at his Monday press briefing.
Nearly two weeks ago, word came that more than $200,000 had been charged to the mayors credit card. Charges included travel, entertainment, meals and more.
The mayor said Monday that some of the charges have already been reimbursed. He also claimed that his sister, Ayanna, repaid the city after staying in a room in New Orleans that was charged to the his city credit card.
Kilpatrick acknowledged other questionable charges that were made on the card and should not be the citys bill. He cited spa charges in Las Vegas and limo charges.
"If you have things on there like charges for spas, I pay those personally," said Kilpatrick. "We are not living it up on the city," he added.
Mayor Kilpatrick went on to say that he intends to continue to dispute a number of charges, but he did not explain why he had waited so long to write a check to cover the credit card bill.
7 Action News asked how much the mayors check would cover, but Kilpatrick said the city did not yet have a total. Charges were still being added up Monday afternoon.
The first family SUV was a Lincoln Navigator, the last I read the new family SUV was a Cadillac Escalade. I'm guessing those both go $50k or more.
Nothing's too good for the mayor's family when the city is paying for it!
Saad is a good guy, I know him. One problem is that his wife gave ten grand to the Swift Vets, but I don't think that's in his file.
Reid is an ass.
The weekend before the '04 election a big story came out that Kwame and his family were running a scholarship charity and keeping over 90% of the donations for themselves.
Did that do any damage to the Kilpatrick Crime Family?
Nope.
The weekend before the '04 election a big story came out that Kwame and his family were running a scholarship charity and keeping over 90% of the donations for themselves.
Did that do any damage to the Kilpatrick Crime Family?
Nope.
No idea, but in my opinion, Harry Reid's FBI file is much worse. If anyone was able to see it, Harry would be forced from office!
Turn about is fair play, eh Harry?
Let me see if I can figure out how this works. If I steal stuff and get caught then everything will be OK if I just offer to return the stolen goods? Is that right? Does that work for everyone or just a select few?
Even better, Kwame brought up the race card in the most disgusting way today.
He was questioned about buying Absopure water for city employees at the WATER DEPT to the tune of $131,000 and Kwame said " I am going to give my employess water. I am not on a plantation where I have to answer to Massa about giving the workers cool clean water to drink".
If I could crawl through the television I would knock his block off.
$131,000? That's a lot of water.
Check out today's Freee Press lead story. Kwame's ship actually seems to be sinkingas the little Ford Excursion story has gone past critical mass.
Like they say.......give a "mayor" a hat...
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