Posted on 01/24/2008 3:58:48 PM PST by John Jorsett
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick bristled in the witness chair last year when asked whether he had an affair with a top aide. No, the mayor confidently told jurors, the two were never romantically involved.
But a trove of 14,000 text messages that emerged this week tell a different story: The mayor and his chief of staff carried on a flirty, sometimes sexually explicit dialogue about where to meet and how to conceal their numerous trysts.
Now the mayor's indiscretion has landed him in a Clinton-style scandal that could cost him his job and his law license and even bring perjury charges.
"I think the mayor needs to take responsibility for the situation," City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel said Thursday. In politics, she said, "you operate in a fishbowl."
The Detroit Free Press did not explain exactly how it obtained the messages, which were sent or received in 2002-03 from Chief of Staff Christine Beatty's city-issued pager. The newspaper said it cross- referenced the messages with the mayor's private calendar and credit card records to verify events in some of the notes.
The mayor's denial came last summer during testimony in a lawsuit filed by two police officers who alleged they were fired for investigating claims from two former bodyguards that the mayor used his security unit to cover up extramarital affairs.
Mike Stefani, a lawyer for the officers, asked Beatty if she and Kilpatrick were "either romantically or intimately involved" during the period covered by the case.
"No," she replied, rolling her eyes.
While still on the witness stand, the mayor later went on the offensive about the allegations, defending his reputation and that of Beatty.
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As has so often been noted, it’s the coverup that does you in.
They’re always after me lucky bling bling.
He is going to see jail time with this one. Hahahahaha
Here you go, bub.
“Now the mayor’s indiscretion has landed him in a Clinton-style scandal”
Nuf said...
Same thing is happening to Houston’s Republican DA. Love notes.
Add to that, now the Republican Sheriff is in trouble. What for??
Well, he forwarded a cartoon to someone else showing The Revs Jackson and Sharpton begging for “An end to racism.” Next panel shows *POOF* and they vanish.
Frankly, I think it’s hysterically funny!
As I posted on another thread...
"I did not have text with that woman, Miss Beatty"
A “Clinton-style” scandal. Love it.
Looks like the jig is up!
LMAO
It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘IM’ is.
Are you in a betting mood? I bet this, along with everything else he has pulled, amounts to nothing.
Thanks to that LPOS, Detroit has to pay a 9 million settlement when they could have gotten away with a simple re-instatement of the officers involved.
Thanks Kwame!!
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