Downriver1's Blog

I would like to the supporters of Kwame Kilpatrick a chance to sound off, please, tell me what has this man done for the City of Detroit that trumps all of the current chaos and would warrant you standing by him, and why he should stay in office. Do you truly feel that he is a great man and mayor, or is it just that you feel you need to protect a black man that you perceive to be being harrassed by the white man? If that is the case then you need to open your eyes and see that the only white men involved are Kwame's high priced lawyers.

What has Kwame done for the City of Detroit that overshadows these points:

1. A lawyer who lied on the stand under oath, you can twist the meaning of the questions any way you chose, but anyone with any common sense saw the answers for what they were, a lie.
2. Lied to the City Council, and tried to arrange an elaborate scheme of paper to decieve the local news, city government, and ultimately steal $8.4 million to cover up an affair. Remember your Sunday School, lies will only breed more lies to cover up the lies you told.
3. Has assaulted multiple individuals, be honest, everyone saw him on TV shove the reporter from Channel 7 not once, but twice. How many other times has he done this and worse that we have not seen?
4. A party may have never been proven at the Mansion, and that is probably because it was not a big party, just a handful of close friends and EPU officers. But as a result there is still an unsolved murder, and children who will never grow to know their mother.
5. He has personally destroyed the lives and carreers of numerous city employees and police officers who were only trying to do their jobs, but got too close to the truth on what Kwame was doing or had done.
6. Sat back and watched as the Detroit Public School system has completely decayed, I know they have their own Board, but you cannot tell me that he has no influence or ability to force change.
7. Abused the priviledge of a city issued credit card racking up a couple of hundred thousand dollars in just two years before the auditor caught on, by the way, you paid for that to.
8. Created a shame of a non-profit called the Detroit Civic Fund, with a board made of family members drawing huge salaries out of your contributions, and paying for Kwame's family vacation at a resort spa in California.

At every turn this man has lied, cheated, and stolen from the citizens of Detroit, but yet you want to say all is forgiven, leave him alone, he is doing a good job. Is this the way that you want your sons and daughters to behave? Because this is the role model that you are insisting they look up to.