Corey Williams, AP, April 29, 2008
A series of often explicit text messages from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s former chief of staff appear to show she had a long-term romantic relationship with the mayor and that he played a role in the firing of a police officer who sued the city.
The embarrassing messages between Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty from 2002 and 2003 appear in an 18-page document released Tuesday on the orders of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Colombo Jr. in response to a lawsuit by the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News.
The document was obtained from the computer of Michael Stefani, an attorney who represented three police officers in whistle-blowers’ lawsuits against the city that were settled last year for $8.4 million. The text messages were taken from Beatty’s city-issued pagers.
The messages could prove damaging to Kilpatrick and Beatty, who are accused of lying under oath in one of the lawsuits by denying they had an intimate relationship. They are charged with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice. Both have denied wrongdoing.
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The document released Tuesday includes descriptions of sexual trysts, the frequent use of the N-word by the mayor and Beatty as a term of endearment, and discussions of marriage.
On Sept. 15, 2002, Beatty described a sex act she wanted to perform on the mayor but said she didn’t know how to approach him about it. He replied: “Next time, just tell me to sit down, shut up and do your thing!”
Later that month, the pair appeared to arrange a sexual encounter in Beatty’s office. On Sept. 19, 2002, Beatty wrote to Kilpatrick: “I have wanted to hold you so badly all day, but I was trying to stay focused on work. So, I promise, not to keep you longer than 15 minutes.”
Kilpatrick replied: “Don’t promise (N-word.)”
Beatty said: “I’m in my office. Do you want me to come to yours or you coming to mine?”
Kilpatrick said: “I’m coming down there . . . LOL ditto. Freaky Chris!”
The text messages also appear to show Kilpatrick was involved in the decision to fire one of the former officers, former Deputy Chief Gary Brown, which Kilpatrick also denied under oath as part of the lawsuit.
In a text message Beatty sent to Kilpatrick on May 15, 2003, that was contained in the document released Tuesday, she said: “I’m sorry that we are going through this mess because of a decision that we made to fire Gary Brown.”
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(Posted on April 30, 2008)
Comments
…whats the big deal about kwame using ‘-igger’? after all, he is the ‘hip hop maya”…
Posted by toonces at 8:39 PM on April 30
Oh goody. Can we all use the N-word as a term of endearment now?
Posted by Lucas M at 8:57 PM on April 30
That guy is a piece of c**p anyway. Were he not black politican in a predominately black city he would have been gone a long time ago. Look at Congressman Jefferson of Louisana, caught red handed and he still has support in the black comminity. Go Figure!
Posted by at 9:08 PM on April 30
From a technical standpoint, exactly WHY are the telephone companies keeping these text messages around? Ever wonder about that? It’s a store-and-forward network architecture; were the telephone switch manufacturers like Lucent asked by the US government to design the network to keep messages around? If so, why? The US government always raises their “concerns” whenever a foreign corporation acquires a telecom firm. The government makes sure that “national security” concerns are addressed; why doesn’t any of our so-called elected representatives ASK why the privacy of texting customers apparently is not of paramont concern?
Posted by at 9:51 PM on April 30
Wait, didn’t the hip-hop mayor cry victim, woe-is-me, a few weeks ago and said that people have called him the n-word which has been hard on him…He was using that card to solidify support from other blacks, but here we have him using the n-word regularly…
Posted by HPA at 11:04 PM on April 30
Is it any wonder Detroit is collapsing into third world status?
Consider this: We have ring side seats to watching an American city go the way of African countries that are run by blacks.
Jeremiah Wright told the NAACP gathering that blacks and whites are different and certainly aware whites know that all too well, but I’m wondering why he didn’t tell them that blacks and all other races are different as well. I mean, adter all, blacks fail to accomplish what the other races in this country do also.
Posted by ice at 11:25 PM on April 30
They fired a police officer who sued the city? Looks like Detoilet owes the cop some more money.
Retaliating against someone who has already demonstrated a willingness to sue, and then leaing a trail of evidence about the matter seems to me the the acme of dumb.
As for oral sex in the office, this is probably the level of professionalism Detoilet’s voters expect.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 4:28 PM on May 1
My wife and I love each other dearly. The last time she complained about me using our garage to refinish wood for the patio benches when she wanted to pull in and park, she didn’t call me a “gaijin”, a “honkey” or a “cracker”. If I were to get excited with her, and I have not, I would certainly never call her a “gook”.
The editors here know I can put more hate into a carefully-worded sentence than most people can tolerate. I don’t think, though, that using ethnic slurs with a loved one is remotely reasonable. Presumably these two people also loved each other, but not in a very mature way if the n-word was a term of endearment between them. If he calls his lover n-word, did Fitzpatrick also call his mother “b***h”?
Why not call her “darling” instead of n****r, Mr. Fitzpatrick?
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 5:46 PM on May 3
