The Canuck socialist guv Jenny Grandstander is not innocent either. She supports the same sort of policies that keeps Detroit mired in decaying muck. She wouldn't have won without the ghetto crowd.
Posted on 11/08/2005 5:28:44 PM PST by Jambe
WJR Radio has just broadcast that exit pole results for the Detroit mayoral race give the challenger Freeman Hendrix a 4 point victory over Kwame Kilpatrick.
Kilpatrick would be the first Detroit incumbent mayor since 1961 to be voted out of office.
Kilpartick is in his first term.
It is unknown what effect numerous charges of voter fraud in Detroit will have on the final results.
I heard Kwame said he was a new man since he shed his diamond stud earring ~LOL~
I know nothing about this race. Kwame Kilpatrick versus Freeman Hendrix sounds like trying to pick Mulsims over French. Can you help me here?
There's a guy at my church (Baptist), a deacon (Caucasion) who lives in Detroit and is in the same neighborhood association as Hendrix. I get the impression he's a major improvement if he wins.
I wonder if Kilpatrick and his machine are as thuggish and corrupt as Sharpe James in Newark. In any case, if these results are offician and Kilpatrick is out, I guess his organization didn't turn out enough votes.
Let's put it this way, when all of Kwame's friends and family who are on the city payroll for big $$$, get fired by Hendrix, the unemployement rate in Detroit will jump by 20%.
Ive still got a log laying across my bedroom but It did cut it back to the outside walls so I could tarp the hole to keep the wind and rain out.
The more I look at it the more I realize that somebody was looking out for us. It drove the wall between our bedroom and bathroom right through the floor.
Where's the French? I'm not an expert on name/nationality derivation, but help me here.
And this is the latest update.
Cue the theme song from "Night of the Living Dead" (if it had one).
For Kwame, it'd have to be a gangsta rap version.
Not so fast!!! Channel 2 (Fox) sez their exit polls have Kwame by 4.
The dead must have risen and voted.
Funny. According to WXYZ TV, Freman is leading by 59% of the vote, with 36% of the precients counted.
http://web.wxyz.com/vote2005/electionresults-detroitmayor.html
Who to believe...
between him and the city council, they destroyed any possibility of growth for the city. The major casinos bailed, the major investments for 06 super bowl bailed, so Kwayme just put faces on all the old abandonned buildings down town...
Total waste of the energy used for creation...
http://www.clickondetroit.com/politics/5282644/detail.html
Hendrix Leads In Early Race Results
Local 4 Exit Poll Shows Hendrix With 56 Percent, Kilpatrick With 44 Percent
POSTED: 8:53 pm EST November 8, 2005
UPDATED: 10:45 pm EST November 8, 2005
Challenger Freman Hendrix led incumbent Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with nearly 40 percent of the ballots counted Tuesday, putting Kilpatrick at risk of becoming the first Detroit mayor since 1961 to be defeated for re-election.
With 38 percent of precincts reporting, Hendrix had 26,964 votes, or 58 percent, and Kilpatrick had 19,327 votes, or 42 percent.
A Local 4 exit poll shows Freman Hendrix leading incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick based on a telephone poll of people who said they voted.
The poll, by East Lansing-based Mitchell Research and Communications Inc. for WDIV and The Detroit News, showed Hendrix with 56 percent and Kilpatrick with 44 percent.
That survey interviewed 750 people by about 8:30 p.m. EST and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
The drama of Election Day also included action in court as the FBI said it was investigating allegations of wrongdoing involving absentee ballots and obtained an order to preserve at least 42,000 absentee ballots, applications and ballot envelopes.
The election comes as the nation's 11th-largest city struggles with poverty and decades of population decline. The next mayor will inherit a city facing a multimillion-dollar budget deficit and the possibility of financial receivership.
Four years after becoming one of the city's youngest mayors, Kilpatrick found himself asking voters for forgiveness -- and another chance -- after a scandal-plagued first term. Still, he sees himself at the helm of a city dealing with its problems and heading in the right direction.
Hendrix, who was deputy mayor under Kilpatrick's predecessor, made it a campaign refrain that he wouldn't embarrass the city if elected. He has focused attention to the city's troubled finances, laying the blame for much of it on Kilpatrick.
Hendrix, who topped Kilpatrick 44 percent to 34 percent in the nonpartisan primary in August, led in recent polls, but Kilpatrick gained ground as the election neared.
Meet the new boss,
Same as the old boss....
We won't get fooled AGAIN!!!
... and the dead rose from their graves and shuffled to the polling booths.
The Canuck socialist guv Jenny Grandstander is not innocent either. She supports the same sort of policies that keeps Detroit mired in decaying muck. She wouldn't have won without the ghetto crowd.
Cool bumpersticker.
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