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Detroit Mayor Charged With Perjury (Another Dem Scandal, Top Story on Drudge)
Breitbart ^ | 3/24/08 | AP

Posted on 03/24/2008 8:42:52 AM PDT by NYC Republican

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and as Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages surfaced that appear to contradict his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, 37, who also denied under oath that she and Kilpatrick shared a romantic relationship in 2002 and was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice.

In all, Worthy authorized a 12-count criminal information.

"This case was about as far from being a private matter as one can get. Honesty and integrity in the justice system is everything. That is what this case is about," Worthy said at a news conference.

"Just when did honesty and integrity, truth and honor become traits to be mocked, downplayed, ignored, laughed at or excuses made for them? When did telling the truth become a supporting player to everything else?"

A perjury conviction could bring up to 15 years' imprisonment and force Kilpatrick to relinquish the mayor's office.

Worthy has said she and her staff have pored over more than 40,000 pages of documents since January, when the Detroit Free Press published excerpts of sexually explicit text messages sent to Beatty's city-issued pager in 2002 and 2003.

The messages contradict statements Kilpatrick and Beatty gave under oath during a whistleblowers' trial last summer when each denied a romantic relationship.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: corruptdems; kwamekilpatrick; mayor; perjury; purgery; rats
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Looks like they're both going down for lying under oath.
1 posted on 03/24/2008 8:42:53 AM PDT by NYC Republican
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To: NYC Republican

Don’t these Democrats have anything to do ?


2 posted on 03/24/2008 8:43:43 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: NYC Republican

I read and reread the article and for the life of me I cannot find where it points out he is a DEMOCRAT....


3 posted on 03/24/2008 8:44:08 AM PDT by HD1200
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To: NYC Republican

Typical.


4 posted on 03/24/2008 8:45:09 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whiteys I see...)
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To: HD1200

It doesn’t... More of the same lib bias...


5 posted on 03/24/2008 8:45:32 AM PDT by NYC Republican
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To: NYC Republican

Democrat that even spoke at the Democrat National Convention in ‘04.


6 posted on 03/24/2008 8:45:32 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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To: NYC Republican
Purgery!
7 posted on 03/24/2008 8:45:55 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Do we want Huma answering the White House phone at 3:00 AM?)
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To: NYC Republican

At least if they’re busy texting and screwing, they aren’t doing any harm thru bad legislation.......I say put all politicians on viagra and make all hotels free for them. All of our problems solved..............


8 posted on 03/24/2008 8:46:19 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: tobyhill

The media will quickly gloss over it.


9 posted on 03/24/2008 8:46:19 AM PDT by NYC Republican (John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...)
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To: NYC Republican

Pretty much the same thing Clinton did, which goes to show that there is a separate judicial system for the very powerful.


10 posted on 03/24/2008 8:47:10 AM PDT by Pete (That goat is looking at me.)
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To: HD1200

Well the PC rule is that you don’t identify Democratics when in trouble as such as one would a Republican. But, by ommission they do identify them.


11 posted on 03/24/2008 8:47:19 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Truthism Watch)
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To: ASA Vet

Stagmire !


12 posted on 03/24/2008 8:47:23 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: NYC Republican

Alternate headline if he were a republican:

Republican Kilpatrick (R) brings shame, sense of loss to GOP.


13 posted on 03/24/2008 8:48:51 AM PDT by YourAdHere (I'm Client #10!)
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To: NYC Republican

Yea, they’re too busy playing the 4,000 number.


14 posted on 03/24/2008 8:48:55 AM PDT by tobyhill (The media lies so much the truth is the exception)
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"Just when did honesty and integrity, truth and honor become traits to be mocked, downplayed, ignored, laughed at or excuses made for them? When did telling the truth become a supporting player to everything else?"

The Clinton legacy.

15 posted on 03/24/2008 8:49:20 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: NYC Republican

The media will quickly gloss over it? Heck, they’ll need Polyurethane for this!...............


16 posted on 03/24/2008 8:49:31 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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Come on Bill Clinton taught us it is okay to lie about sex under oath. Want to bet somewhere down the line we are going to hear some distorted definition of what sex is.....
17 posted on 03/24/2008 8:49:46 AM PDT by martinidon
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To: HD1200
I read and reread the article and for the life of me I cannot find where it points out he is a DEMOCRAT....

What else would a mayor of Detriot be?

18 posted on 03/24/2008 8:50:24 AM PDT by Tolkien (Freedom comes with the Highest of Costs. The Cost of Blood)
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To: NYC Republican

So what? The Democrats have already proclaimed that perjury is not a crime and that everybody does it.


19 posted on 03/24/2008 8:51:09 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: Pete
Finger wagging and all... LOL


20 posted on 03/24/2008 8:51:21 AM PDT by NYC Republican (John McCain- Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory...)
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