Detroit's Nightmare is finally over

[Chris_Doane]

Kwame has finally resigned:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

Mayor: 'I lied under oath'

He'll resign, serve 120 days in jail, pay $1M restitution

UPDATED AT 10:45 A.M. -- Kilpatrick will plead guilty to two obstruction of justice counts and six other charges will be dismissed. He will go on 5 years reporting probation, serving the first 120 days in the Wayne County Jail. He must also leave office within two weeks. He has agreed to pay $1 million in restitution, paying $20,000 at the date of sentencing and the rest over the next five years.

[Robert Hall]

Kwame has finally resigned:

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

McCain should have picked him...he's more qualified than Palin.

Edited September 4, 2008 by moltar

[Sixty8panther]

Oh... I thought this was about "Detroit" as in the Automotive Domestic Three.

This guy seems like a real scumbag, typical politician.

[Oracle of Delphi]

I wouldn't count Kilpatrick out just yet, he may rise like a Phoenix from the political ashes. Just like Mayor Marion Barry did in Washington, D.C..

[MysteriousSol]

I wouldn't count Kilpatrick out just yet, he may rise like a Phoenix from the political ashes. Just like Mayor Marion Barry did in Washington, D.C..

And that's exactly what I have heard from several Detroiters today. He's already being compared to Marion Barry and he hasn't done 1 day in jail. Wait....scratch that he did. My cousin actually booked him when he did a night in jail a few weeks ago.

The point I'm trying to make is........Kwames not done, not by a long shot.

[balthazar]

IDK...

Barry was only convicted on a single misdemeanor charge of cocaine posession prior to 'rising from the ashes'. {Entire legal procedures were a farce.} He's a scumbag.

Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to 2 felony obstruction of justice charges (there were 8 originally), plus a 3rd felony charge of assault on a police officer- the latter which sourced his forced resignation (in other words, it was not his choice to resign. This is commonly called 'getting canned'). {Whole judicial case was -again- a farce.} He's another scumbag.

[daves87rs]

I wouldn't count Kilpatrick out just yet, he may rise like a Phoenix from the political ashes. Just like Mayor Marion Barry did in Washington, D.C..

MMmmm..knowing what is about to go down in Detroit, he may be lucky to get out of jail......

[daves87rs]

And that's exactly what I have heard from several Detroiters today. He's already being compared to Marion Barry and he hasn't done 1 day in jail. Wait....scratch that he did. My cousin actually booked him when he did a night in jail a few weeks ago.

The point I'm trying to make is........Kwames not done, not by a long shot.

Getting the chance to meet him, he is a smart man. Though he has one hell of an ego....which with many things, became his downfall....