Detroit Mayor Rejects Deal In Assault Case
One Charge Against Kwame Kilpatrick Would Have Been Dropped If He Resigned By Sept. 3
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick attends a hearing in 36th District Court Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008 in Detroit, Mich. Kilpatrick has been ordered to the county jail after a judge found the mayor violated the terms of his bond by going to Canada and not informing the court. (AP Photo/Bryan Mitchell)
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in court during an emergency bond appeal hearing in front of Judge Thomas Jackson at the Wayne County Third Circuit Court, August 8, 2008 in Detroit. (AP Photo/Bryan Mitchell)
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This photo, supplied by the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, shows Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as he was booked following his jailing Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008, by a Detroit judge for violating the terms of his bond (AP)
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Detroit Mayor Mess
Key events in the text-messaging sex scandal involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The surprising offer came this morning from the Michigan attorney general's office. What it was, basically, was: Resign by September 3rd in exchange for dismissal of one of the two assault charges.
But Kilpatrick's attorney says the legal team is "preparing for trial."
The mayor is accused of shoving a sheriff's detective into another investigator while they tried to serve a subpoena on a Kilpatrick friend last month. He's pleading not guilty.
It's one of two criminal cases against the mayor. A conviction on the assault charges carries a sentence of up to two years in prison.
Separately, Kilpatrick and his former top aide, Christine Beatty, are charged with conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.
Kilpatrick is a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver. Thomas said last week the mayor is interested in attending but conditions of his bond in the assault case prevent him from traveling outside the metro Detroit area.
A hearing was scheduled for Monday on Kilpatrick's bond conditions.
Separately, Kilpatrick and his former top aide, Christine Beatty, were charged in March with conspiracy, perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office, mostly tied to their testimony in a civil trial. Sexually explicit text messages between the pair, published by the Detroit Free Press in January, contradict their sworn denials of an affair, a key point in the trial last year involving a former deputy police chief.
Meanwhile, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is scheduled on Sept. 3 to consider a request from the Detroit City Council to have Kilpatrick removed from office. Under Michigan law, a governor can remove an elected official for misconduct. That hearing could last several days.
Granholm declined Friday to discuss anything involving Kilpatrick.
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See all 60 CommentsHe''s innocent cause he''s black.
Say, has the chosen one, the messiah, he who we have been waiting for texted you yet?? Love the game here, all of you leemings just waiting, panting, breathless for the WORD. Naw, not like a celeb at all, not the empty suit.
Posted by gop_forever at 11:58 AM : Aug 22, 2008
gop_forever: You must really feel awful possessing a single digit IQ
Democrats and Liberals, dragging "LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL" through the sewage once more.
Democrats and Liberals, dragging "LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL" through the sewage once more.
Posted by DemWatcher at 01:15 PM : Aug 22, 2008
What kind of drugs are you on.
I want you to undergo UA because your are obviously high!
If he is guilty then why the deal? Is it because he is Democrat as well as black?
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Posted by papabc at 02:02 PM : Aug 22, 2008
I guess you forgot about Scooter?
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Posted by gop_forever at 11:58 AM : Aug 22, 2008
What planet are you living on?
Do Michigan a favor, put this thug in jail. He deserves to be with the other thugs.
I am not from Detroit , but it strikes me that this is a politically motivated plea bargain and not a full satisfaction of need for the mayor.
The Detroit voters put this man in office. They deserve for the mayor to have a day in court and they also deserve that he should not just be able to give up his job if he has committed a wrong.
Imagine the bus driver asked to give up his job for assault. It just would not happen.
Jenny...
,,,So what...it''ll be about the only thing political that has happened since he''s been elected. The city is in a state of dire circumstances. no since his election, but for decades now, and this idiot has done nothing but defends himself and nothing for the needy and ignored Detroiter....especially black children.
Kilpatric is a political entity, and ineffective at that and should be removed immediately by the Governer of State legislature. But since dropping the N Bomb during the State of the City address, she''s declined to get involved. The State Deomcrat Party doesn''t want to upset the local Democrat Party''s BOY...and by extension, their power. This doesn''t serve the residents of Detroit well, but I understand her position.
The harm is coming from Black Elites protecting the Idiot, thug Prince of Wayne county, and that needs to stop. THe quicker the court case and they lock his arse up, the better. When they get rid of Baby Boy Kwame and his cackling mother, the better for Afro-Americans in the forgotten city.
Individuals that stereotype are no better than the low-life thugs they presume to castigate.
Yes Killpatrick is a degenerate thug, and unfortunately there are a lot of "Detroiters" following in his footsteps.
However, there are a lot of logical minded, educated, and productive Detroiters that are not waiting on a "welfare check" or handout, such as yourself.
Say Mayor, did you read the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird." There is only one element to your ligitation that differ: Government racism and corruption is hosting this lyching.
Blacks, like anyone else, if not more so, controls the levers of power...Detroit, D.C., Newark, New Orleans...chocolate cities in general are like most other cities. Control rest in the hands of the involved few. Voting every four years don''t get it done, but inclusion is stream-lined, necessarily, but local parties. The difference between white polity and black polity is accoutability.
Kilpatrick, Nagan, Sharpe James of Newark, Baryy of D.C. are no less criminals than those mayors of other persuasions...they just don''t have to perform to a level of accountable standards.
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I believe you have just summarized the federal government and the White House leadership for the past 2 decades. I guess the black politicians are no better than their mentors.
Offering to withdraw charges in exchange for his resignation also smells of extortion, and if the charges would have been indeed dropped because of his resignation, there is a question of obstruction of justice for the victim of his shove. Are we to assume that the victim would be so happy at the mayor''s resignation that he would haver dropped the charges?
I smell something amiss on both sides.
-Leaders who don''t serve. Service is required elsewhere in America
-Legacy...One must learn to lead and too many time, unqualified persons are elected to office.
-Autonomy: Why are Jess and Al the king o the blacks? Because CNN, the NYT, NPR along with the Black Aristocracy and intellectuals deem them to be; not us.
-I have to stress service again. Whites know da-amn well what money and power does to those who have it, but they demand that their needs be met in the most tangible and substantive ways. Our "leaders" live off of the image of "BEING" and nothing else.
-He fired cops who had families to feed
-While layoff workers, spent 8.4 mil dollars to cover up the firing of cops that were doing their jobs.
-He went to college (and God help us) Law school and didn''t know about Michgan''s FOIA laws concerning city property.
-Always in trouble, for which he must defend...wasting legal resources the CITY needs.
No, Brian....This isn''t about ***...it''s about a clown wearing teh suit of executive to the must poorly ran city in America.
Mate with his friend? That should have been free, as it was no one else''s business, This is the Motor city we''re talking about. I suspect the 8 million you say he "spent to hide it", was spent on the same people now trying to extort him out of office when the cash dried up, and it wouldn''t have been spent except for his perceived need to keep it quiet.
Cops with families? Come on, this is Motown we''re talking about, they can easily get better paying work as security. No one thought about families when the "big four" were throwing people out of their jobs at the rate of 20,000 per month in the 70s, or now, no one thinks of the families of the soldiers Bush sent to die for his lies.
The city was poorly run from it''s birth, whoever let such a large population become dependent on a single industry was begging for the death of the city, and they got it. The riots of the 60s and 70s were proof that a large portion of the city was suffering, and that cannot be blamed on "Black" politicians. I-75, I-94, and other main arteries were pothole pocked car traps, Schools built with tax dollars were sold for a fraction of their value to private concerns without permission from residents, what few remained had no money to have current media, Detroit was a dying city back in the 70s, and no one, not even legalized gambling could halt the process.
Detroit was dying when Mr. Kilpatrick was in kindergarten, and dead before he left college.
"Kilpatrick is a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention next week in Denver."
Weak.
The democratic party is so lame and weak.
When a political party cannot address an issue
like this properly it reflects on the whole
party - nationally.
Is this like the egotism and narcissism that John Edwards said made him have the affair while his wife had cancer?
And, Bubba is the leader of the band........
He said there might be a class action suit against Edwards to recover money donated to his campaign since Edwards knew he was lieing when he accepted it........
It would be great for the democrats to
highlight the fiascos of this campaign.
It would make a great clip to watch.
Where would they start?
The part where Ferraro is called
a racist would be
a highlight.
Why would you want to live in Detroit? Eeeeeewwwwwww.
Auto industry, 60''s riots, legacy of bad governance...boo freakin hoo. Since taking office, Kwame has spent 90% of his tenure fighting rumors, scandals and criminal charges. Inspite of GM''s bad business affairs, Kwame is an elongated extention of the poor past of Detroit, true, but stupid thugism isn''t hereditary; though he was spoiled by his criminal parents. Not one singletary child has been improve by actions of this administration.
The police are honorable until proven otherwise. These men had no known on-the-job troubles. Your provarications mean very little and does even less to answer the question: Does Kwame need to accept resoncilbility for failing the city residents of Detroit.
Those who protect jackasses are...well, JACKASSES!
Brian, What ya said is very true! I was born and grew up in Detroit(proper). Left for the service a few months before the ''67 riots. Returned in 1990, it was unblievable what the city had become. I blame the big four and people living in the ''burbs who own land in Detroit and therefore can vote.
When the *** Coleman Young was voted in the downfall of Detroit began, the big four ran away from Detroit. Coleman also helped destroy the city. And let us NOT forget the people who live in the ''burbs, but can vote in Detroit local elections because they own land in the city, they too have helped destroy Detroit.
BTY, don''t let anyone blame the 1967 riots on the "Blacks" only, was the films, there are many White rioting and looting also.
The Mayor has taken the path of Coleman Young and dishonored himself. Homie, Homie, Homie!
I left Detroit in 1997, and have not returned.
Your argument and insult is aimed, not surprisingly, in the wrong direction. My assertion was that something smelled on both sides.
Fighting rumors? Spread by whom, and why, this obvious question you repeatedly ignore.
Scandals? Get real, this is the 21st century, a man''s personal erotic predilections are no longer scandalous, except to hypocrites.
Criminal charges? You yourself wouldn''t see a day in jail if you were charged with such "crimes".
As I said, Mr. K. is obviously not the brightest of bulbs, but there is an obvious and blatant attempt to force him from office, and those behind it are not above extortion to do such, and last time I checked, extortion was also illegal.
Parents? What proof do you offer to condemn a persons parents, I am sure you also did not turn out to be what your parents wanted either, it is called "free will", look it up.
Jackass? I won''t dispute that either, we are both probably jackasses, but at least I am not a blind one.
I would posit that Detroit''s downfall began long before Young, the riots started in ''67, on 12th and Pingree streets, two blocks from where our family used to live. They started well before Coleman young''s first term, and were an indication that things had already reached the breaking point for a large part of the residents.
The big four moved out, not because of Young, if that were the case, they wouldn''t have moved all the way to Asia, but to someplace like Auburn Hills, a la the Pistons. They moved abroad to take advantage of slave labor, and import breaks that made it favorable to do so, and that policy was from Washington, not Detroit.
You obviously don''t know the history of the Detroit police department, a group of people whose Mob connections, links with suburban "White" supremacist groups, and penchant for terrorism go back generations, perhaps in it''s heyday second only to the NYPD in its corruption.
As usual, blaming the symptom, and not the cause, let me correct you.
Why the City of Detroit sucks?
1)Winter
2)No viable economic circulation
3)Underfunded, obsolete infrastructure
4)Lack of diversification
5)Lack of international economic ties
6)Racial intolerance
7)Local government corruption
8)State government corruption
9)Federal Government corruption
10)The Detroit Lions
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