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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns As Part of Guilty Plea
September 4th, 2008
I’m glad this article discusses the real issue of why Kilpatrick is in this situation; firing cops for political reason, covering it up, conspiring with other government officials, and settling a multi-million dollar law suit against him with city money and hiding the settlement; as most news media only wants to focus only on the salacious angle of him sexing his assistant and the text messages that accompanied.
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns in Plea Deal
Foxnews.com
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice and will step down as the mayor of the nation’s 11th-largest city as part of a plea deal in a sex-and-misconduct scandal that has plagued the Motor City for months.
Kilpatrick’s resignation was announced following his plea Thursday, but he’ll stay on through Sept. 18 to help City Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. take the reins of the city. As part of the deal, Kilpatrick will spend four months in jail and pay the city $1 million over a five-year probation period.
The embattled mayor entered his plea Thursday in the courtroom of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge David Groner.
“I lied under oath,” Kilpatrick said during the plea hearing.
The Wayne County prosecutor’s office has charged Kilpatrick with eight felonies in the perjury case.
The announcement of a deal by the prosecutor’s office sent reporters rushing from an extraordinary hearing Wednesday in which Gov. Jennifer Granholm is tasked with deciding if Kilpatrick should be removed from office for misconduct for his role in an $8.4 million whistle-blowers’ settlement.
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I hope this sorry, sad chapter that is Kwame Kilpatrick soon ends, and Detroit can move forward and start to get on track.
Hopefully the folks in Detroit won’t do like my people did in D.C., and vote this cancer back in 4 years.
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Kwame did some good things, but in the end he was too young for power and an example of the Public Enemy song; “Dumb Nigger.”
I don’t think age has anything to do with it, as we continually see corrupt officials of all ages; it’s all character and morals.
Whatever good he did is over shadowed by the arrogance of his own self-contrived untouchable persona that he bought into.
He thought mayor equaled king.
Age is the wrong term, I meant maturity, which some of us in our 50’s use inmature judgement, others in theri 20’s are fully mature.