Posted on 09/14/2008 8:06:54 PM PDT by Lorianne
The Motor City’s train wreck of a mayor finally steps aside—for now. ___ Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation as Detroit mayor is effective September 18, but the city will be dealing with the legacy of his administration for years to come. Kilpatrick agreed to resign as part of a plea agreement on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and official misconduct, filed after hundreds of sexually explicit text messages, printed in local papers, proved that he had committed perjury when he testified in a civil trial that he had not had an affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty. The case involved more than run-of-the-mill lying about adultery, however. In fact, it was consistent with a continuing pattern of Kilpatrick’s abuse of office.
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Please. They're dealing with 50 years of incompetent or criminal liberal Mayors.
Not the Kwame I knew.
Kwaaame how I luv ya, how I luv ya
My dear old Kwaaame.
Look at the picture though, where he’s yukking it up with Wright. If we apply some “enemy of my enemy” logic:
The friend-who’s-not-the-friend-he-knew OF the friend-who’s-not-the-friend-he-knew would make him Obama’s what?
The REAL scourge of Detroit - and many other large ciies - is the fact that fools, leaches and criminals have been given the vote....
Once fools and knaves vote — fools and knaves get elected.
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