All Posts Tagged With: "Mayor"

Kwame Kilpatrick Is A Past and Present Hypocrite and First Rate Nincompoop.

Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick (D), 38 was jailed Thursday for breaking conditions of his bail, released Friday and the District Attorney says he broke bail again on Saturday. Kwame was elected at the age of 31, he is the youngest mayor in the history of Detroit, as well as one of youngest current mayors of any major U.S. city and has the further distinction of being the only major city mayor currently charged with a felony.

Kilpatrick briefly addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He is currently Vice President of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors and its representative to the Democratic National Committee. On June 3, 2008 Mayor Kilpatrick endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for President.

Kilpatrick have been plagued with controversies which have included allegations of adultery, conspiracy, and perjury. On March 24, 2008, Kilpatrick was charged with eight felony counts, including perjury, misconduct in office, and obstruction of justice. If found guilty of felony perjury, Kilpatrick would be disbarred and could be jailed for up to 15 years per count. The City Council voted support for him rejecting calls for his resignation.

Soon after taking office he was criticized for using city funds to lease a car for use by his family and using his city issued credit card to charge $210,000 worth of spa massages, extravagant dining, and expensive Moët et Chandon champagne. Kilpatrick would later pay back $9000 of the credit card charges.

When serious questions about water department contracts came to light in late 2005 Judge Feikens ended Mayor Kilpatrick’s special administratorship. In January, 2006, the Detroit News reported that,

“… Kilpatrick used his special administrator authority to bypass the water board and City Council on three controversial contracts:

• A $131 million radio system that will be used mostly by Detroit police and fire departments.
• A $21.3 million security upgrade performed by a company tied to the mayor’s friend, Bobby Ferguson.
• A $38,000 no-bid public relations contract awarded to Bob Berg, the spokesman for Kilpatrick’s re-election campaign.

Kilpatrick’s first controversy involved a wild party in the fall of 2002 involving strippers at the official residence of the mayor-the city-owned Manoogian Mansion. It is alleged by former members of the mayor’s Executive Protection Unit that the mayor’s wife, Carlita Kilpatrick, came home unexpectedly and upon discovering Kwame with the strippers began to attack one of the women.

The April 17, 2005 issue of Time Magazine listed Kirkpatrick as one of the three worst big-city mayors in the United States,along with San Diego’s and Philadelphia’s Mayors.

Kwame is the son of 20-year U. S. Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich. Who heads the Black Congressional Caucus. She is not implicated in any of her son’s problems.