Posted on 05/13/2008 11:09:23 AM PDT by taildragger
Detroit City Council Votes to Begin Removal Process of Mayor Kilpatrick. In a 5 to 4 vote, however one Council Women thinks the Mayor may be making overtures in regards to resigning
So - what happens if he actually gets removed from office, then the voters of Detroit put him right back in office (think of a former Washington DC mayor...)?
Have they asked Granholm to do it yet, or are they going to actually grow a spine and do it themselves?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/NEWS01/80513057
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/METRO/805130415
Do to the posting restrictions, I am following tit then telling folks here. It looks like they sent it up to the Governor, but the story has changed SO fast that a re-vote may occur at 2:30pm EST.
What soap opera....
Oops, mis-spell, “following it” my apologies.
Your right on the soap opera, thanks for the update.
Oh, you might get some flack over your last post, heads up! :-)
It used to be that the dim POS's were left in office. Especially if it were other dims making the call.
It was only the Republicans that forced people to leave office if they were ethical and moral buffoons.
There's a dim in Ohio who just made an Elliot Spitzer type mess. Attorney General Marc Dann refused to leave office so the dims kicked him out of their party.
I still think dims are the worst kind of politician slime in a long line of slimy politicians, but at least this is encouraging.
AP link here.....http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015335/posts
MOCKING HIM IN SONG ON YOUTUBE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o17n9A7IGfE
This guy is different. On all 1200am Detroit today, (primarily African American Talk/Gospel/Sports) Radio today, there was talk of yet another facet of the soap opera, food service contracts that may be influenced etc.
The Feds have been sent documents from the Prosecutor.
this weekend a huge story in the Sunday Paper on the "Friends and Family Plan" i.e. the cronie-ism
Not to mention the rumors that certain men of the cloth, may be a the trough as well.
The corruption is mind boggling, his whole family still may be in place even if he goes to da-bigga-house.,
Me thinks they want him out of the way so the Defecate does not hit the Rotary Oscillator when Barack Hussein is in Denver or running Solo. The distraction and comparisons are to much and they want it to go away.
Including this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjIAMQtgWA
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...say it ain’t so. He was so very entertaining.
Thanks....
That was brilliant.
This guy’s mother is a congresswoman and she heads the Black Causus.
UPDATE: Council Moves to Oust Mayor
Last Update: 2:56 pmDETROIT (AP) - A debate over how to deal with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his text-messaging sex scandal that has enveloped the already struggling city for months came to a head Tuesday when the City Council took the rare step of approving two measures aimed at removing Kilpatrick from office.
Council members voted 5-4 to begin forfeiture of office proceedings against Kilpatrick. On a separate 5-4 vote, they approved asking Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to terminate Kilpatrick's hold on the mayor's office.
A third vote - to censure the mayor - passed on a 7-2 vote.
Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams called the forfeiture vote "another meaningless gesture on their part."
"They can't remove the mayor. They have no legal authority," Adams said. "This goes well past where they need to be. He was elected by the voters of Detroit, not by the council."
The votes appeared to be in jeopardy in the early afternoon when Councilwoman JoAnn Watson indicated she might reconsider her vote.
The council agreed to reconvene later in the afternoon on Watson's request, but she decided instead to withdraw her motion to change the vote.
The relationship between the council and the mayor's office was strained even before revelations earlier this year that he may have misled them to approve an $8.4 million whistle-blowers' settlement.
Council members say they were unaware of a confidentiality agreement that Kilpatrick signed that kept secret references to intimate and sexually explicit text messages between the mayor and former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.
Excerpts of those messages were published in January by the Detroit Free Press and contradicted testimony Kilpatrick and Beatty gave during the whistle-blowers' trial, when they denied having a romantic relationship.
The Wayne County prosecutor's office charged the two with perjury, misconduct in office and obstruction of justice on March 24, less than a week after the council voted 7-1 on a nonbinding resolution asking Kilpatrick to resign.
State law allows the governor to remove an elected official from office for a number of reasons, including official misconduct, willful neglect of duty or a felony conviction.
A message seeking comment was left Tuesday with a Granholm spokeswoman. The governor has said she wants to allow the legal process to play out.
The council's move to start forfeiture of office proceedings against Kilpatrick could end up in court and be costly - presenting yet another burden for a cash-strapped city which is among the nation's leaders in foreclosures and unemployment.
The Kilpatrick case has overshadowed city budget negotiations and the proposed sale of Detroit's half of a busy and lucrative international tunnel linking the city to Canada.
If Kilpatrick is forced from office, council President Ken Cockrel Jr. will assume the mayor's seat and council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers would take over as council president.
Wow, the last sentence of the story you posted almost wants me to keep Kwame in office. Monica Conyers will become Council President.
The Detroit City Council is clownish enough without her being in charge. Ken Cockrell seems to be a serious individual, while many of his cohorts seem to be total dolts, with Conyers being the chief dolt.
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