“Everyone is in favor of free speech… but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.” ― Winston Churchill
Unethical activity by Kwame Kilpatrick’s lawyer?
$8.4M Sex, Lies & Texts Settlement Puts Detroit Lawyers on Hot Seat
What a surprise.
Mayor’s salary – $176,000
Fraudulent settlement – $8.4 million
Running Hizzoner out of Michigan – Priceless
H/T Instapundit
…Two quite different views of Kwame Kilpatrick’s overdue demise and inadequate punishment: Here.
“Justice has been served,” said Detroit native Terry Lewis, 42, while standing outside the courthouse watching television reporters set up. “He should have stepped down a long time ago; the city could have been moving on with other projects.” Lewis now lives in nearby Ypsilanti.
The mayor spent a night in jail in August for violating bond terms related to a charge that he shoved a sheriff’s deputy.
Michigan Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, also a Democrat, is the mayor’s mother.
“This has been a witch hunt from the start,” said Byron Frazier, 34, wearing a T-shirt with Kilpatrick’s image on it outside the courthouse. “I’ve supported the mayor from the start and will continue to support him.” Frazier is a community organizer in Detroit.
Now, there is an interesting political implication in that quote aside from Kwame’s well deserved downfall. I didn’t highlight it, but maybe you noted what Byron Frazier does to earn his daily bread. If you did, you might have started wondering what the per capita ratio of his job title in Detroit, the poorest major city in America, is to anywhere else.
The people of Detroit have been severely damaged by Kwame Kilpatrick. So has the rest of Michigan. You might say our State’s community has been disorganized by looters and vandals. Even fools, obviously excepting Byron Frazier and his ilk, can see that is true They want to keep KK around as long as he can help them. That’s also why it took until yesterday for Barack Obama to vaguely distance himself from Kilpatrick in a typical “under the bus you go” move.
Sarah Palin stood up to cronyism and corruption in Alaska when it involved her own political party and Big Oil. Do you think she could stand up to cronyism and corruption in America, including especially Detroit, better than a product of big city machine politics? Or even our own Governor, whose job it already is?
Three posts over at Right Michigan are worth reading.
Hsu’s who in Democrat fundraising:
1- Michigan Dems hoped you wouldn’t notice while they raked in tens of thousands from wanted fugitive Stabenow’s not giving hers back, either.
Mayor Kilpatrick experiences a richly deserved setback:
2- Jury says the Hip-Hop Mayor is GUILTY! TOC has previously commented on Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick’s peccadillos.
Michigan taxpayers take note:
3- They said it couldn’t be done… but the GOP Senate has a plan to fix the budget without raising taxes.