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| Detroit mayor agrees to plead guilty, resign |
| 2008-09-04 |
| Adios, Kwame... DETROIT - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has agreed to plead guilty to obstruction charges and will step down after more than six years leading the nation's 11th-largest city. The plea deal was announced during a court hearing Thursday and brings to an end a seven-months-long sex scandal that led to felony charges against Kilpatrick and plunged the city, region and state into political chaos. As part of the plea deal, the 38-year-old Democrat is expected to serve jail time. Third paragraph. Not bad for AP... The married mayor and former top aide Christine Beatty were charged in March with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice. They're accused of lying under oath about an affair and their roles in the firing of a deputy police chief. Beatty did not plead guilty and next will appear in court on Sept. 11. And another Democratic bright light is snuffed out... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #9 Kwame, you useless pos, don't drop the soap. Loser. Unfortunately my former home town gets the leadership it deserves. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-09-04 22:58 |
| #8 Alan, I know, but there are some outside of the Motor City that still read it (at least for the Tiger box scores; sure miss George Kell and Ernie Harwell,BTW.) |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-09-04 16:50 |
| #7 Hey USN Ret, the DFP is the local rag. They no more have to spell out the party of a corrupt pol then they would have to spell out the race of a KKK leader. It's really kinda obvious, know? ;^) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2008-09-04 15:29 |
| #6 Hey, this is just another case of the Man bringing down an up and coming brother. (Well, actually, the governor is a woman (and a Democrat).) But you know what I mean. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-09-04 15:08 |
| #5 "Third paragraph. Not bad for AP..." funny thing, in the Detroit Pree Press on-line article, party affiliation is never mentioned. but then i guess criminal deeds and party affiliation go together like Briggs and Stratton.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-09-04 14:29 |
| #4 Dammit, Besoeker. Now I've got coffee all over my keyboard. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-09-04 13:22 |
| #3 As Instapundit says, it's another chance to play Name That Party! Idiots. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-09-04 13:04 |
| #2 The Kilpatricks again? Bloody Micks never learn. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-09-04 11:55 |
| #1 the 38-year-old Democrat is expected to serve jail time. It's ABOUT time. If all the Dems who fully merited being in jail were actually IN jail, there wouldn't have been enough of them walking the streets to HAVE a convention. They'd have had to have it at the Graybar Hotel. Kwame, I'm glad to see you got some of what you so royally deserve. Pity you can't be joined by Marion "Crack Pipe" Barry, Jesse "Love Child" Jackson, William "Cold Cash" Jefferson and Tawana Sharpton. They deserve the clink just as much as you do. Take a case of KY when you go. You'll be needing it. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-09-04 11:19 |