Two Kwames Battle in Detroit
March 27th, 2008City Council member urges businesses to pressure Kwame Kilpatrick to step down.
City Councilman Kwame Kenyatta has issued an open letter to the City of Detroit,
requesting that businesses in the city pressure Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to leave office. Formal charges against Kilpatrick, in the wake of an investigation for perjury and misconduct, make it impossible for him to effectively lead, Kenyatta says. “The city cannot afford the distraction of a long legal battle,” Kenyatta wrote Wednesday. “We must heal and move forward.” The mayor and his ex-aide Christine Beatty are both accused of lying in court last year to cover up an affair they carried on in 2003 when both were married. The case stems from civil lawsuits filed last year by two former cops who were connected with an investigation of rumors that officers with the mayor’s security detail filed excessive overtime hours, including time worked on occasions when Beatty and Kilpatrick we re allegedly together romantically. Both Beatty, now divorced, and Kilpatrick denied under oath that they had an affair at the 2007 civil trial for ex-officers Gary Brown and Harold Nelthorpe. Despite the denials, a jury awarded the men, plus a third officer, a judgment of over $8 million. Kilpatrick and Beatty are scheduled for court appearances in June. The mayor has repeatedly refused to resign.
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HE NEED TO GO NOW WHAT A FAT JERK…. HE COULD CARE LESS ABOUT BLACKS IN DETROIT HE’S ABOUT MONEY HE WAS SO STUPID TO USE THE COMPANY PAGER. HE SHOULD GO FOR JUST BEING STUPID. HE HAD THE ORDACITY TO ASK FOR DEFENSE MONEY. HE BETTER START TAPPING AT HIS SAVINGS FOR HIS DEFENSE. WHAT A LOSER, FIRST BLACK MAYOR AND YOU DO WHAT THE WHITES SAY YOUR GOING TO DO AND YOU DO IT AND %%$** YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY.
The Mayor of Detroit thinks that he is above the law. It is time that he is fired and kicked out of office so that the city can move on. The city council also needs to clean house in the police department starting with the cheif of police. Also, these so called preachers standing behind his mess need to be taken out of the church because they are not real men of GOD.
He is not a grown man or he would have been too smart to swap heaven for some rotten (also stupid stuff. Detroit, you voters asked for this;so,pay up get up and move on. Bye ya’ll.
He is not a grown man or he would have been too smart to swap heaven for some rotten (also stupid stuff. Detroit, you voters asked for this;so,pay up get up and move on. Bye ya’ll.
White people are really laughing at us now… He makes us look real unprofessional. I just hope that this doesn’t effect the black vote!!!
the fool could have taken the fifth, and most fools knoe that if you lie under oath, you commited a crime, now not only will he lose his job, but his wife has everything that she would need to ask for a divorce and really clean him out
you play you must pay
i think this is so sad, our black men are given opportunities to make a difference in their community and when they get the power all they think about is themselves, he should just step down and keep walking out of detroit
What can i say, our mayor has done wrong with his wife and the city of Detroit, people around the world is looking at us..from cnn news, to court t.v, the city is looking so bad. Mayor kilpatrick you have done wrong since i can remember as a hils i never thought a mayor wouls ever get fired from his job. yes there have been many people have had affairs in office and outside of the office . But the truth is wrong is wrong. you can’t be above the law, now that Kym Worthy is handling this case you are in trouble, as you know she anint no joke she goes by the law, as a judge, a lawywer. she is a tough woman. Kipatrick, you have a hellafive fight on your hands. the counts you got with beatty, it’sgoing to be hell to pay..she’s going to make a mock out of both of you. you put your foot in this one..it’s about the justice not the booty!!!!
Mayor I am detroit and detroit is me I got your back… detroit don’t give up wait unto he get his day in court…. just like u would want your..you are let the media put it in your are head he need to step down for what?so 8mile can get are water and any thing eles they want stop it would you.
I agree with JBird, He is not the first man of power and legal status to do this and won’t be the last! What because he is a young african american he deserves all of this NO, if he were another nationality this wouldn’t be in the spot light so much (even though he has done wrong) Wake up people they want him out so they can take the city back over!!! and move everyone else out LOOK at the BIGGER PICTURE HERE. HE has did a Great Job for the city. That’s him and his wife’s problem no one else’s get some business!
Tgirl I agree with you. The people of Detroit need to focus on what is past for us. Kwame as an very good job scents he has been in office. Right now he is in trouble. And has some charges agaist him right now but that has nothing to do with him running the city. The Mayor can run this city with his eyes close. This Mayor is the best Mayor have had scents Mayor Colemen Young. Let him and his wife deal with his cheat ways that has nothing to do with us.
If he is the best mayor that Detroit has ever had, I feel sorry for city. I’m sure that Detroit’s schools, health care system and citizens could have benefited from the 8 million dollars that was INSTEAD used as HUSH MONEY to pay the police officers and keep his sleazy affair hidden.
If he wants to cheat on his wife, that’s his business, let God be the judge. BUT, mayor or not, he has NO RIGHT to make the city of Detroit foot the bill for stripper parties, tricked out navigators, lawsuits and all the other PERSONAL shenanigans that he has committed in office.
This man, a LAWYER (!!) no less, thinks that he is above everything, including the law. Now he has to pay. If it takes a mistake as stupid as lying under oath to get him out of office, so be it.
The city of Detroit will be much better for it.
And he’s not going to resign. What everyone all over the world doesn’t understand that Kwame has done so much for the inner-city of Detroit, while no one else cared, especially not our caucasion brothers. All they ever worry about is downtown Detroit. What he has done is wrong but no one mentions all of the accomplishments that he has made since being Mayor of our city. That’s what is so sad about this whole ordeal. Detroit is loosing someone who really made a difference in Detroits raggedy a** city and had a promising career and could have done so much for our community. All over a ho*. You let us down Kwame and we Detroiters are disappointed because we had your back.
We should have forgiveness in our hearts for the Mayor and Christine first of all and stop acting like we all live sinless lives. It is quite evident that we aren’t without sin, if that was true, we would be in heaven.
IF U CARED ABOUT THE CITY! SPEND YOUR OWN MONEY!
FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO SAY MAYOR KILPATRICK IS ONE OF THE BEST MAYORS DETROIT HAS SEEN. DETROIT IS NOW ON THE LIST OF PLACES TO VISIT. PEOPLE ARE MOVING IN AND BUSINESSES ARE BOOMING IN DETROIT DUE TO THE DEALING OF THIS MAYOR. THIS SCANDAL IS POLITICALLY CHARGED AND WHOMEVER CAN NOT SEE THAT YOU ARE BLIND. STARTING WITH THE MEDIA, TO CITY COUNCIL TO THE UP FOR RE-ELECTION KYM WORTHY. THEY WANT THIS MAYOR GONE NOT FOR WHAT HE HAS ALLEDGEDLY DONE WRONG BUT FOR PERSONAL REASONS. KWAME I PRAY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY THAT YOU COME THROUGH THIS VICTORIOUS BECAUSE I KNOW DETROIT WILL!!!
when you are arrested and charged with a alleged crime would you like to be forced to quit your job even though you have not been found guilty yet? overall mayor kilpatrick is doing a very ggod job and should not quit!
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