Pressure Rises in Detroit for Mayor to Quit Quickly

Quote :

"DETROIT — The swift resignation of New York's governor, Eliot Spitzer, just days after he was linked to a high-priced prostitution ring has put new pressure on the embattled mayor of this city, Kwame M. Kilpatrick, with critics calling for him to step down quickly as well. 'Lying under oath, I think most people would think that's more serious a crime than hiring a prostitute,' the Michigan attorney general, Mike Cox, said on Thursday. 'Eliot Spitzer, whether you like him or not, did put the State of New York above his own interests. But the mayor thinks he's bigger than the City of Detroit.' Mr. Kilpatrick has vowed repeatedly over the last several weeks he will not quit despite publication of text messages showing that he and his former chief of staff lied under oath when they denied having an extramarital affair, as well as accusations that the city agreed to settle a lawsuit for $8.4 million primarily to hide the affair. A Kilpatrick spokesman, James Canning, said the Spitzer scandal should not play into anyone's opinion of the mayor."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/14detroit.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

BTW, I didn't see any mention of the mayor being a Democrat by the Times--I may have missed it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JPZ2SzBeZnc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxQF_su2du0&NR=1

Apparently, the mayor is also playing the race card:

Granholm sees no place for N-word

Quote :

"A spokeswoman for Jennifer Granholm said Thursday the governor was dismayed by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's use of the N-word during his State of the City speech Tuesday. 'Gov. Granholm condemns the use of the N-word and believes it has no place in public or private discourse,' spokeswoman Liz Boyd said. 'The governor was shocked that it was used because it should never be used." Boyd noted that Granholm and Kilpatrick attended the ceremonial burial of the epithet last summer. Kilpatrick used the word toward the end of his speech in describing what he said were racist slurs and threats he and his family have received since the text message scandal unfolded. His use of the N-word has been criticized by a Detroit pastor and others. The mayor's spokespeople have defended his decision, saying he simply described in plain terms what his family has endured in the past month."

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/NEWS05/803140314/1007/NEWS05

3/14/2008 5:53:15 AM

You do realize it's "Democratic" right?


Oh wait, you're not partisan!

3/14/2008 7:12:06 AM

^ So. . .you have nothing to offer on what I posted, only how I posted it? GG.

3/14/2008 7:26:04 AM

I bet this made the news in Michigan

3/14/2008 7:43:28 AM

.^ The New York Times:

Pressure Rises in Detroit for Mayor to Quit Quickly

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/14detroit.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

AP:

Decision on Detroit Mayor in 2 Weeks

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMmCL2ZE66E0ZnDDmXkjF5E4b9NgD8VBVHMG0

LA Times

As long as we're talking about sex scandals ...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/as-long-as-were.html

ABC News (one hour ago):

Detroit Mayor: "This Unethical, Illegal Lynch Mob Mentality Has to Stop"

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/detroit-mayor-t.html

You get the picture--this story's bigger than just Michigan.

[Edited on March 14, 2008 at 7:56 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2008 7:54:47 AM

I thought your point was that it was not making the news because it was a democrat(ic) scandal

And my point was that its just a mayor

[Edited on March 14, 2008 at 8:06 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2008 8:05:40 AM

but but but but

what about how these things only make news if it's a republican scandal?

3/14/2008 8:37:35 AM

How about this is a mayor, not a statewide elected official.

How about this has been going on for a very long time.

Edit: To be clear, I think Kwame Kilpatrick should resign...and I think there was just cause for that before he got caught sleeping with his Chief of Staff.

[Edited on March 14, 2008 at 8:44 AM. Reason : add]

3/14/2008 8:42:50 AM

But but but...at least he cheated with a woman1211!!!!

[/typical tdub democrat poster]

3/14/2008 8:44:23 AM

^^^ Um. . .who the fuck ever said that? I indicated that these types of stories aren't covered in exactly the same way with Democrats as they are with Republicans--and that happens to be true.

^^ Um. . .how about this guy has already cost Detroit taxpayers nearly $10 million.

[Edited on March 14, 2008 at 8:47 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2008 8:44:58 AM

Um.

Hi.

This is Monica:



Have you met?

3/14/2008 8:48:34 AM

Quote :

"Um. . .how about this guy has already cost Detroit taxpayers nearly $10 million. "

Um...how about....we don't disagree.

I said there was just cause for him to resign before news came out of his affair.

Kilpatrick's entire tenure as mayor has been riddled with scandal.

I want the guy gone already.

3/14/2008 8:51:01 AM

Man, does Detroit ever get a break?

3/14/2008 4:10:43 PM

what's wrong with lying under oath about an extramarital affair?

3/15/2008 12:19:47 AM

This shit is OLD.

And it's so predictable that the mayor would try to play the race and victim card in order to get sympathy.

Hopefully we'll get to a point where this kind of orchestrated racial victimization will be only met with ridicule.

3/15/2008 12:56:41 AM

its okay,

men have needs

3/15/2008 1:02:44 AM

Sex isn't a need.

People aren't objects and thus shouldn't be bought or sold.

3/15/2008 1:06:54 AM

This was an old fashioned affair, not a prostitution scandal.

And sex is definitely a need.

[Edited on March 15, 2008 at 1:12 AM. Reason : 2]

3/15/2008 1:12:16 AM

At least its not a gay sex scandal like right wingers have.

3/15/2008 12:00:24 PM

at least he wasnt playing footsie with a vice cop in an airport shitter.

or drunkenly chasing after 16-year-old Page Boys into their dormitories.

or smoking crack and having sex with gay male prostitutes in between delivering anti-gay sermons at his suburban megachurch.

or ... or .... or ....

BUT CLINTON LIED ABOUT HAVING AN AFFAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1






[Edited on March 15, 2008 at 11:53 PM. Reason : ]

3/15/2008 11:51:50 PM

Quote :

"Sex isn't a need. People aren't objects and thus shouldn't be bought or sold."

Why do you think people that go without it molest children and do other crazy shit? Part of being a normal, healthy person is a normal, healthy sex life.

message_topic.aspx?topic=509336

3/16/2008 8:25:12 AM

That glass house of yours is very fragile...

3/16/2008 2:00:35 PM

Hooksaw, do you really want to get into a sex scandal competition with democrats?

At least they manage to sleep with the opposite sex.

3/16/2008 6:46:31 PM

^ Um. . .there's a lot of gay bashing in this thread. Perhaps some of you aren't as tolerant as you claim to be.

So it's okay for an elected official to smoke crack. . .



. . .and have extramarital sex. . .



. . .as long as it's not with a guy?





[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 4:47 AM. Reason : .]

3/17/2008 4:46:00 AM

Quote :

"This was an old fashioned affair, not a prostitution scandal."

Yeah, I guess I didn't read carefully enough. Sorry y'all.

Quote :

"And sex is definitely a need."

Not in the same way, say, food and water are needs. Hell, some folks are completely uninterested in sexual activity. They get along well enough.

3/17/2008 6:47:55 AM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qF0yHY9q6Us

^ You mean like the supposedly asexual Morrissey? He forgave Jesus for all the desire placed in him or some such.

3/17/2008 11:40:30 AM

Quote :

"^ Um. . .there's a lot of gay bashing in this thread. Perhaps some of you aren't as tolerant as you claim to be. "

Its more pointing out the irony that the party that supports LGBT rights tend to get caught in heterosexual affairs, and the party that is chuck full of homophobes get caught in homosexual ones.

Quote :

"So it's okay for an elected official to smoke crack. . ."

As long as its powdered cocaine, I guess so.

[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2008 4:49:16 PM

3/17/2008 4:52:15 PM

Quote :

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And theres no fuss about this guy *KEEPING* his job:





[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 4:59 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2008 4:56:29 PM

^ Yeah, Foley was creepy. But McGreevey looks happy now, so that's good--but his wife sure as hell didn't look happy back then:



[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2008 5:02:02 PM

^ Better than this guys wife:



oh, and this ones too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmHC75FDqQ
at least McGreevy admits it now, not trying the whole "i got reprogrammed" bs.

[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 5:09 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2008 5:05:08 PM

Drudgereport headline:

NYDailyNews.Com set to report: Hours after he’s sworn in, new NY Gov. Paterson Confesses Affair...

NEW GOV. ADMITS

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/17/2008-03-17_gov_paterson_admits_to_sex_with_other_wo.html

Damn out of the frying pan, and into the fire!

[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 8:54 PM. Reason : Now with link]

3/17/2008 8:53:22 PM

^ Wow! That's incredible--why the fuck does anybody even get married anymore? Seriously.

3/17/2008 11:32:52 PM

Paterson Says He Would Have Repaid Any Personal Use of His Campaign Funds

Quote :

"The question of whether the governor used campaign funds in the course of carrying on an extramarital affair has potential legal ramifications for him and his campaign treasurer, according to election law experts. It is illegal to spend campaign money for personal use, although by quickly making a reimbursement, a candidate would most likely avoid any penalties."

Quote :

"The personal use of campaign money raises another question, however, that cannot be easily cleared up. Any expense must be assigned a category in the reports filed with the elections board, and the campaign treasurer attests to their truthfulness, said Robert Brehm, a spokesman for the board. Falsely reporting the purpose of an expense can subject campaign officials to civil penalties or a criminal misdemeanor charge, he said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/nyregion/19campaign.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I just hope no laws were broken. I mean, I don't want any trouble for this guy--hell, a blind guy experiencing a rocky patch in his marriage and nailing the women like he was? I give him a pass.

3/18/2008 11:51:42 PM

Ohio Attorney General Dann admits affair with employee

Quote :

"COLUMBUS - Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann, who was catapulted into office because of a Republican ethics scandal, yesterday vowed to remain in office after he admitted to having an extramarital affair with an employee. The admission occurred just after the Democratic officeholder said he fired two top aides and accepted the forced resignation of a third in a sexual harassment scandal. The situation inevitably brought his own conduct into question."

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080503/NEWS24/805030402

5/6/2008 6:03:38 PM

^ i read about that.

and guess who's leading the charge to impeach him? the democratic governor and the democratic state congress.

and the state democratic party is looking into avenues to disenfranchise him from the party.






[Edited on May 6, 2008 at 6:59 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2008 6:54:47 PM

I haven't read up on it too much, but what exactly are the grounds for impeachment? Doesn't he have to have committed a crime for that?

5/6/2008 6:57:02 PM

sexual harassment by his recently-fired lieutenants is part of it. but any executive having sexual relationships with a subordinate is generally a fireable offense in most public companies. recall a couple years ago, Harry Stonecipher then-CEO of Boeing... fired immediately when it was revealed he was banging a V.P.

Quote :

"COLUMBUS, Ohio --- Risking impeachment, Ohio's attorney general has refused demands from the [Democratic] governor and virtually every other state-level Democratic office-holder that he resign over a sexual harassment scandal in his office and an affair with a subordinate. Gov. Ted Strickland told reporters yesterday that Democrats will begin drafting an impeachment resolution against Attorney General Marc Dann right away. --Reuters"

[Edited on May 6, 2008 at 7:07 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2008 7:03:15 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=z7x3igvQ6_w

5/13/2008 6:21:36 AM

Detroit Mayor Ordered to Jail

Quote :

"(DETROIT) — A federal judge ordered Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail Thursday for violating the terms of his bond in his perjury case, a decision the judge said he would have made for any 'John Six-Pack' defendant before him. The mayor made an unauthorized trip to Canada last month, leading the county prosecutor's office to request Kilpatrick be punished and triggering the judge's ruling. Only minutes earlier, the mayor offered an apology to the court, telling District Court Judge Ronald Giles that for seven months, 'I've been living in an incredible state of pressure and scrutiny.' But Giles sent the mayor to jail anyway, telling him he would have given any defendant the same treatment. 'What matters to me though is how the court overall is perceived and how if it was not Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat, if it was John Six-Pack sitting in that seat, what would I do? And that answer is simple,' he said."

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1830265,00.html

Oops.

8/7/2008 12:46:39 PM

good, this guy is an idiot. Im sure he will blame his arrest on race too.

8/7/2008 12:49:31 PM

8/7/2008 12:50:59 PM

8/7/2008 1:27:38 PM

8/8/2008 3:09:38 PM

Oh yay, "gotcha" politics.

8/8/2008 3:11:25 PM

Let the parade of excuses and tu quoque fallacies begin.

8/8/2008 3:15:36 PM

Kwame Kilpatrick

... too bad he wasn't Mayor of Boston. Irish judges would have had this shit against their homeboy dismissed in a heartbeat.

The real problem as I see it, is Detroit is full of Pollacks.

8/8/2008 3:21:42 PM

I don't have an excuse for Edwards, nor would I offer one up. He's an idiot. Too bad so sad.

8/8/2008 3:21:48 PM

^ Well put.

8/8/2008 3:22:58 PM

While I'm not going to defend Edwards, I will point out that, unlike many of our Republican collegues... it was again with an ADULT WOMAN.

8/8/2008 3:47:33 PM