Posted on 01/25/2008 4:38:53 AM PST by equaviator
DETROIT -- 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.
'You made me feel so damn good'
The Detroit Free Press obtained nearly 14,000 text messages from the pager of Christine Beatty, chief of staff of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, many of which describe a sexual relationship. Excerpts posted on the paper's Web site:
9/28/2002, 11:53 p.m.
Beatty: Where are you now?
Kilpatrick: At home waiting for all [executive protection unit officers] to leave. Where are you?
Beatty: At the residence inn in Madison hgts.
Kilpatrick: What rm?
Beatty: I'm in room 311 in bldg 3 in the back.
10/7/2002, 11:20 p.m.
Beatty: OK, I'm feeling like I want another night like the most recent Saturday at the Residence Inn! You made me feel so damn good that night. As you can see I can't let it go!
10/16/2002, 11:48 p.m.
Kilpatrick: I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days ... relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love.
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.
The Detroit Free Press did not explain how it obtained the messages, which were sent or received in 2002-03 from Chief of Staff Christine Beatty's city-issued pager.
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.
'Profoundly embarrassing'
On the witness stand, the mayor also went on the offensive about the allegations, defending his reputation and that of Beatty. ''I think it was pretty demoralizing to her ... but it's demoralizing to me as well,'' he testified. ''My mother is a congresswoman. There have always been strong women around me. My aunt is a state legislator. I think it's absurd to assert that every woman that works with a man is a whore.''
Late Wednesday, Kilpatrick issued a more subdued statement. ''These five- and six-year-old text messages reflect a very difficult period in my personal life,'' he said. ''It is profoundly embarrassing to have these extremely private messages now displayed in such a public manner.''
Kilpatrick is married with three children. Beatty was married at the time and has two children.
Last summer's lawsuit ended with the jury awarding $6.5 million to the officers.
Judge Michael Callahan, who presided over the lawsuit, said it is up to prosecutors to decide whether to seek perjury charges against the mayor. The county prosecutor's office declined to comment on Thursday, but scheduled a news conference for today.
Are you kidding? This will only make him more popular, like when Coleman Young proudly showed off his illegitimate kids.
He’s ‘keepin’ it real’ for his peeps.
Since it’s not mentioned - must be a democrat.
LOL!
Those “textual relations” cost the city of Detroit over $8 Million to pay for lawsuits. And this isn’t a Paula Jones style case — the ones slandered and FIRED were police officers with longstanding careers.
The lawsuit against the hip-hop mayor’s mistress was about to be settled (she swore at cops who pulled her over for speeding and they were slandered by the mayor on the radio), but now the attorney is having second thoughts.
I don’t like the Free Press but I give them kudos for pursuing this story. There should be repricussions for the city council as well, since they tried to prevent the judge from seeing the text messages that were part of the case and tried to hide them from the paper’s FOIA request.
And there goes breakfast.
thanks for the belly laugh to start my day!
oops, guess it’s time for a tagline change.....so sad
He’ll get a pass.
So he lied. He was trying to get over. Being a working man ain’t easy with the Man breathing down your neck all the time.
By golly I think Hillary has found her running mate.
Wow that's a LOT of donuts
Yup, considering the LSM, he’s s Dem, and black in a socialist Dem run state.....whether convicted or not, the story will get buried by the LSM , next to last page, section D in 6pt. type.
“Clinton style”!!!
THERE’S his legacy!!
LOL
Gotta forward that to Rush!
I bet ya she’s gonna win big time for the sexual harassment and KK will settle out of court with the city of Detroit coughing up the dough and KK stepping down as mayor. That’ll be about it.
Everyone knew he was corrupt but he was reelected the last time anyway. Like with so many left wing Demo pols he could commit murder on live TV and still win.
This makes it all the more sickening that we still are subjected to all the homilies about problems in the inner cities, poverty, lack of opportunity, blah blah blah. People in those cities continue to *choose* the bad leadership, even though it has failed over and over. Hard to have sympathy for residents when they continue to reward Democrat mayors who are corrupt or have not improved standards of living in their cities.
*Slick needin a real job now? Detroit’s first black mayor? Of course, there’s a few million out there THAT WILL BELIEVE THAT TO BE THE TRUTH!!
"Forget it.
It's Detroit."
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