Is Kwame Kilpatrick costing Detroit too much?
Comments(8) I had to shout out my people in the D today (and if you don’t know what I mean by “the D”, um, Google “Kwame AND jail”). I know y’all goin’ through some things right now.
Now I know some of you are asking why I’m doing a Kwame Kilpatrick post. After all, his problems are about text messages, mistresses and jail time. In other words they’re salacious but not of a financial nature. That is unless you’re a Detroit resident.
Here’s the deal: whether you’re a Kilpatrick supporter or not doesn’t matter if you’re a Detroit taxpayer. The city had been down on its luck forever but started to show some signs of economic life in recent years with a few new condo projects going up and even landing on the world stage by hosting the 2005 Super Bowl.
Then all this stuff started coming up: the firing of two police officers and a subsequent trial in which Kilpatrick is now accused of perjuring himself. Detroiters got hit with a $9 million bill from the verdict in that trial, which spawned textgate. Now the current scandal could cost the city, one of the country’s blackest in terms of population, lord knows how much more. The media attention it’s getting alone has to have people wondering: who wants to go to Detroit? Who would do business there? And besides that, Kilpatrick himself told the judge who sent him to jail on Thursday that the city was already under such financial duress that he had to violate the terms of his bail, run over to Canada and save a deal so he could avoid laying off police and firefighters.
At what point will the cost to Detroiters end from all this? All my people from the D, where you at? Do you think, for purely financial reasons, it’s time for Kwame to go?
“Do you think, for purely financial reasons, it’s time for Kwame to go?”
Not only for purely financial reasons, but also for the mental strife and EMBARRASSMENT he has caused his fellow Detroiters and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, HIS WIFE!!! He is a H.A.M. right now and continues to cause drama!
Sigh, that he is my Fraternity Brother…
Now that’s just plain tomfoolery!
He should step down and relieve the city
of its most painful hemmorhoid since the 2006 Lions
I’m a Detroiter and Kwame Kilpatrick has embarrassed myself and my city to no avail! He’s an arrogant skeezer who only cares about him and himself! He needs to be removed immediately!
Sigh. Not only is he embarrassing, he’s cost the taxpayers MILLIONS. He’s arrogant enough to think he’s above the law. So what he did x,y, z for the city, we know him from Cass or he got Tyrone’s lights cut back on. He’s sent an already struggling city back in time.
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I’m a Detroiter and Kwame Kilpatrick has embarrassed myself and my city to no avail! He’s an arrogant skeezer who only cares about him and himself! He needs to be removed immediately