Huzzah for the Great City of Detroit

[Ice]

Ah, Detroit, the pimple on Michigan's a**. You wonder why sometimes, then you realize it probably has to do with crap like this:

Detroit mayor accused of lying about other affairs

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DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is now charged with exchanging romantic text messages with additional women in the scandal that has him fighting allegations that he lied under oath about an intimate relationship with his former chief of staff.

An investigator's report says the Wayne County prosecutor's office has determined that Kilpatrick sent and received text messages with "intimate or romantic content" to several women who were not his wife or former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty.

The report says the office was able to locate and identify the women, but it does not list their names.

The allegations led the prosecutor's office to amend two current charges against the 38-year-old mayor. The amended complaint was signed by a district court magistrate and changes a misconduct-in-office charge and one of four perjury charges.

The misconduct-in-office charge alleges that Kilpatrick authorized the city to prevent the release of text messages containing intimate or romantic messages to women other than his wife or Beatty.

The amended perjury charge accuses Kilpatrick of lying under oath about romantic or sexual relationships with Beatty "and or other persons not his wife."

The charges against Beatty were not changed.

Kilpatrick's office did not return phone calls seeking comment on the amended charges. But a few hours before they were filed, Kilpatrick accused prosecutor Kym Worthy of a "personal vendetta."

"She has no case, and the city is tired of it," Kilpatrick said after an event promoting Labor Day activities in Detroit.

"It's a perversion of the entire system," the mayor said.

Worthy said in a statement that she would not respond to Kilpatrick's "personal attacks."

In January, excerpts of sexually explicit text messages were published by the Detroit Free Press that pointed to an extramarital relationship between Kilpatrick and Beatty. Those messages, left on Beatty's city-issued pager, contradicted testimony the two had given during a 2007 police whistle-blowers' trial.

Kilpatrick and Beatty were charged in March with perjury, misconduct and obstruction of justice. Both deny the charges and face a preliminary examination in September.

Not to mentioned he used city funds to take his girlfriend on a vacation to the Bahamas, his horrible corruptible nature, but now this. We've, people who live near Detriot, have been hearing about this for a while. I just had to post this about see it make national news. What a disgrace this city and government is.

Of course they, Detroit, will re-elect the man "blaming whitey" for hating on the black man. You'd almost find it funny if it wasn't irritably true.

*Done Venting*

[HoreTore]

Why would anyone care about this anyway?

[Devastatin Dave]

Why would anyone care about this anyway?

Because he's living large on tax payer money. Its bad enough to have to pay for all the low life lazy bums out there that folks like yourself feel the need to take care of, but we shouldn't have to pay for this man's poonany when he can afford it himself.

Not to sound racist, but why does it seem the cities that use to be run by whites that are now run by blacks turn to little 3rd world crapholes? Very strange.

[Lemur]

Not to sound racist, but why does it seem the cities that use to be run by whites that are now run by blacks turn to little 3rd world crapholes? Very strange.

It's true that majority-black cities which also elect black mayors don't do very well. Impossible to say what the cause and effect is, given all of the variables.

On the other hand, minority-black cities which elect black mayors do okay. Harold Washington was much beloved in Chicago, and I'm given to understand Andrew Young did a good job in Atlanta.

[Devastatin Dave]

You're right Lemur, Atlanta was a lot nicer when Mayor Young was running the show, unfortunately years later it came out that he was stealing from the tax payers as well. The problem with the ATL now is its grown too fast too quickly. The main reason I think the "black" cities with "black" governments tend to turn bad is that they try to cure the ills of the past too early causing too much friction with the whites that live in the city limits causing "white flight" which is when most of your affluent residents take refuge outside the city limits, which causes the lost of not only a large tax supply, but it takes many jobs out of the cities because like it or not, many businesses are owned by white Americans. When these fellow Americans that happen to be white leave, then other minority owners such as Asians and hispanics having more capital than the left over black population open businesses but have a bigger tendency to use silent racism and use blacks only at the lowest levels of their companies. I've seen it a 100 times here in St Louis and many more times in East St Louis. Its an amazing to see this and even more amazing when someone talks about this observation because that person will be eventually called a racist, which will happen to me as soon as Tribesman enters this thread.

[Banquo's Ghost]

You're right Lemur, Atlanta was a lot nicer when Mayor Young was running the show, unfortunately years later it came out that he was stealing from the tax payers as well. The problem with the ATL now is its grown too fast too quickly. The main reason I think the "black" cities with "black" governments tend to turn bad is that they try to cure the ills of the past too early causing too much friction with the whites that live in the city limits causing "white flight" which is when most of your affluent residents take refuge outside the city limits, which causes the lost of not only a large tax supply, but it takes many jobs out of the cities because like it or not, many businesses are owned by white Americans. When these fellow Americans that happen to be white leave, then other minority owners such as Asians and hispanics having more capital than the left over black population open businesses but have a bigger tendency to use silent racism and use blacks only at the lowest levels of their companies. I've seen it a 100 times here in St Louis and many more times in East St Louis. Its an amazing to see this and even more amazing when someone talks about this observation because that person will be eventually called a racist, which will happen to me as soon as Tribesman enters this thread.

Actually Dave, that was one of the most thought-provoking posts I've read from you. It's an interesting analysis, and chimes with some other views I have read.

[Crazed Rabbit]

It's true that majority-black cities which also elect black mayors don't do very well. Impossible to say what the cause and effect is, given all of the variables.

On the other hand, minority-black cities which elect black mayors do okay. Harold Washington was much beloved in Chicago, and I'm given to understand Andrew Young did a good job in Atlanta.

Maybe because the latter two couldn't get by on race-baiting, which is, as I understand it, Kwame's chief selling point.

CR

[PanzerJaeger]

Not to sound racist, but why does it seem the cities that use to be run by whites that are now run by blacks turn to little 3rd world crapholes? Very strange.

Coming from one of those cities, I'd be glad to tell you. However, I don't feel like taking a backroom break atm. Needless to say, the common denominator that is dragging American cities down deserves exactly what it gets. Its unfortunate for the rest of us who hold aspirations for our communities that stretch beyond "ghetto fabulous".

[Banquo's Ghost]

Ooops.

Apologies, PJ, for editing your link. It was of course, a straightforward link to your picture, not a hotlink.

Please feel free to restore the link to the picture.

[PanzerJaeger]

No big deal. It wasn't really necessary anyway...

[yesdachi]

I like his stylish use of the pimping hat. The guy is a walking stereotype. He was also voted Time magazines worst mayor in the country a few years ago and the next year he was reelected. Either the opposition was really bad or the people of Detroit were… confused?

[drone]

Not to mentioned he used city funds to take his girlfriend on a vacation to the Bahamas, his horrible corruptible nature, but now this. We've, people who live near Detriot, have been hearing about this for a while. I just had to post this about see it make national news. What a disgrace this city and government is.

Of course they, Detroit, will re-elect the man "blaming whitey" for hating on the black man. You'd almost find it funny if it wasn't irritably true.

*Done Venting*

Let me know when the Feds bust him with a hooker and a crack pipe, then we'll talk.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Ah, Detroit. Fascinating place. Twice, it captured the imagination of the world. First, as the heart of American industrial might, a source of wonder to the world. Then as the centre of Motown sound, providing the soundtrack of a generation. Nashville doesn't really mean anything outside America, but Detroit does. Is Detroit now on the brink of stunning the world the world again, for the third time? Within a century, the world's largest industrial centre laid to rubble and reduced to subsistence farming:

Urban farming takes root in Detroit

The idea is very simple: turn wasteland into free vegetable gardens and feed the poor people who live nearby.

Motown has lost more than a million residents since its heyday in the 1950s and it is common to see downtown residential streets with just a few houses left standing.

Taja Sevelle saw the hundreds of hectares of vacant land in the city and came up with the idea of creating an organic self-help movement that would be "affordable (and) practical".

[Spino]

Ah, Detroit. Once a great metropolis that served as the beating heart of American industry and knowhow. But things are different now... very different...

Looks like Dr. Klahn has found a better use for modern Detroit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrr...eature=related










And that movie was released in the early 70's! Nice to know things haven't changed...

[Reverend Joe]

Looks like Dr. Klahn has found a better use for modern Detroit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmrr...eature=related

I love that movie.

[Spino]

I love that movie.

Kentucky Fried Movie rules.

Here's another clip for you Detroit fans... This had me laughing so hard tears were streaming down my face...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=932vpuCmfJM&NR=1

[ICantSpellDawg]

The man seems to be an animal. I hope Granholm can get rid of him since the people of Detroit seem too daft to see any problem.

[Ice]

The man seems to be an animal. I hope Granholm can get rid of him since the people of Detroit seem too daft to see any problem.

He's her power base.

[ICantSpellDawg]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVfz39f1BcI

At least some people know the deal. The guy is a liar, an adulterer, a thief, vain as hell and possibly a murderer. Plus he is a terrible mayor.