Corey Williams, AP, April 14, 2008
The City Council rebuffed embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s attempts to propose a budget on Monday, the latest sign of increasingly frosty relations between the mayor and city leaders.
Kilpatrick, who is fighting perjury and other criminal charges, walked in to the Council chambers and greeted each member with handshakes or hugs before he prepared to speak.
Council President Ken Cockrel then informed him that he and the other members had agreed not to hear from the mayor. He swiftly called for an end to the meeting, leaving Kilpatrick shocked and seemingly embarrassed.
“This could have been done in my office,” Kilpatrick told the Council before heading out into the hallway, where he called the council’s actions “childish.”
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Kilpatrick and former chief of staff Christine Beatty are awaiting a June 9 preliminary examination on perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice charges.
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[Editor’s Note: A list of earlier stories about Kwame Kilpatrick can be found here.]
Original article
(Posted on April 15, 2008)
Comments
Here is my prediction: Brutha Kwame will run for higher office and he will be voted in.
He has met all the critieria for liberal/black political success among which are that he has disgraced the office he’s currently in, he is incompetent, he has played around on his spouse, he appeals to the blacks (which is his primary base) who have literally dismissed his shenanigans by saying to the press, “he juss a playa”, and he has connections at the state level.
This brutha is goin’ places, folks! Blacks reward failure at every turn and this situation is no different.
Posted by Proactive at 7:53 PM on April 15
..and there’s no pulling the race card for kwame because the city council is all african american
Posted by 1 of few in detroit at 8:12 PM on April 15
“‘This could have been done in my office,’ Kilpatrick told the Council before heading out into the hallway, where he called the council’s actions ‘childish.’”
As opposed to adolescently attempted suppression of suggestive text messaging and alleged sexual frolics with a former chief of staff by a gangsta mayor?
Given the absurd grandstanding and arrogant ignorance so often displayed by members of the Detroit City Council in the past, this action is almost surprisingly adult. Instead of robotically standing behind Comrade Kwame and screaming about endemic racism by the ominous hand of the white man to “bring down” a powerful black man, they choose to rebuff him.
I would almost take it as a sign of hope that blacks in Detroit are in general beginning to mature; the only problem is that this would be a blind hope, since it all boils down little Kenny Cockrel and the other Mau Maus on the council going for a pack attack on the self-destructive mayor.
A mayor that they realize, is too stupid to emulate Old King Coleman, and engage in his debauchery and thievery, under the cover of darkness and with at least a minimum of restraint.
Posted by John PM at 8:21 PM on April 15
The guy needs to be in jail. If I were black, I would be screaming for just that. He is a social embarrasment to blacks while reinforcing old stereotypes. I would not lower myself to even comment on Beatty.
Posted by at 8:40 PM on April 15
Can anyone say, Mugabe?
Posted by Johann von Braun at 8:42 PM on April 15
Well, I’ve got new respect for the Detroit City Council. Kilpatrick needs to resign.
Posted by at 3:07 PM on April 16
A pack of rats will also turn on a wounded member, but not out of moral superiority.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 3:29 PM on April 16
My next question: How much money do the city counsel members in Detroit have hidden in their freezers? Kilpatrick is bringing in too much heat. Don’t want people to get the idea to start flipping over rocks.
Posted by Drew at 4:04 PM on April 16
