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...former Detroit mayor is moving to a new home Oct. 28th - a 15-by-10-foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair. Kilpatrick resigned in September after 8 months of accusations, denials and litigation that cost the city millions of dollars and brought its political development to a halt...
...lawyer and ex-college football captain first came under fire in 2003, when two former police officers filed a civil lawsuit claiming they were fired for investigating reports of misconduct by two of Kilpatrick's former bodyguards. During the court proceedings, one of the officers revealed Kilpatrick's affair with his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, a childhood friend who had assisted his successful 1996 run for a seat in Michigan's House of Representatives. (His mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, vacated the seat to run for national office; she is now a U.S. representative and chairwoman of the Congressional Black...
...want to tell you, Detroit, that you done set me up for a comeback.' KWAME KILPATRICK, the city's former mayor, resigning after a sex-and-misconduct scandal...
...Kilpatrick scandal has also damaged an already weakened Democratic brand in Michigan. Governor Jennifer Granholm is nearly as unpopular as Kilpatrick, and was dragged into the mess when the Detroit city council asked her to hold public hearings to determine whether the mayor should be forced from office, a power the governor has under Michigan law. The hearings began yesterday, and their suspension in the wake of Kilpatrick's guilty plea now allows Obama to become the most visible Democrat in the state heading into the fall campaign. Obama will need the next two months to make up for what...
...yesterday's hearing chaired by Granholm, reporters asked one of Kilpatrick's lawyers about the mayor's absence from the proceedings. "I told you," she said. "It wasn't my turn to watch him." Michigan voters will be paying far less attention to Kilpatrick as well this fall. And that's just the way the Obama campaign wants...