The Obama-Biden ticket visited "Title Town," Detroit, MI and Former Mayor/convicted criminal (Wait, is he a convict yet?) Kwame Kilpatrick was kept 1,500 yards away from them at all times.And Michelle was ready to do some glad-handin' and grinnin'! Who's husband is up in the polls! Hers is! Woot! Woot!And hey kids! It's Grandpa Joe! I have to imagine that as zany (and slightly unstable, but in a lovable sort of way) as Joe Biden is as a politician he has to make an extremely fun, insane... Read Full Story
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Detroit Mayor Wins Round In Court Judge: Kwame Kilpatrick Didn't Violate Bail By Seeing Sister, Who's A Witness In Case
DETROIT, Aug. 12, 2008
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Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in court during an emergency bond appeal hearing in front of Judge Thomas Jackson at the Wayne County Third Circuit... Read Full Story
Detroit, your long local nightmare is over. Kwame "Lady Killer" Kilpatrick has come to his senses:DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex-and-misconduct scandal and will step down after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation's 11th-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months and fined $1 million.The plea deal brings to an end a seven-months-long ordeal that led to felony charges against Kilpatrick and plunged the city... Read Full Story
Some people don't know when to leave the party.And by "people," I mean Detroit's Thug-4-Life mayor, Mr. Kwame Kilpatrick. As you may have heard on a TV set or read in a blog or news site near you, Kilpatrick violated the terms of his bond recently by attending to some city business in nearby Canada. He didn't notify the authorities that he was stepping out of the country for a bit, so the judge treated him like any other criminal and sent him to jail.It was while watching this unfold it... Read Full Story
This is totally ridiculous and shows how low the right wing will go to smear Barack Obama. For everything untoward that happens to people Obama knows, somehow he gets blamed. The latest smear campaign comes courtesy of a conservative organization, Freedom’s Defense Fund, which is already airing this ad that makes an explicit connection between Barack Obama and the disgraced Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. According to Newsweek, 16 months ago, as Obama was launching his campaign for... Read Full Story
