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3 Detroit Council Members Ask Granholm not to Oust Mayor

  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick appears in court for a hearing in April 2008.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Three Detroit City Council members have asked Gov. Jennifer Granholm not to remove perjury defendant Kwame Kilpatrick as mayor.

Monica Conyers, Barbara-Rose Collins and Martha Reeves signed the May 27 letter. The council voted 5-4 May 13 to ask Granholm to oust Kilpatrick and to undertake its own removal process.

Kilpatrick and ex-Chief of Staff Christine Beatty are charged with perjury, official misconduct and obstructing justice over their testimony during a whistle-blowers' trial in which they denied being romantically involved.

Conyers tells "The Detroit News" the process "should stay at home."

Councilman Kwame Kenyatta says the letter's a "disgrace." Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd declines comment.

These three ladies and the Kwamster remind me of the movie The Witches of Eastwick. Remember Jack Nicholson and his perverted role as Satan and his three groupies the witches? lol Well Detroit has it`s very own version here.

We all know who is playing Jack`s role....... so on with the rest of the cast. 

The witches: One a songstress - Reeves, another a woman who has rode her elderly husbands dusty, moth eaten coat tails into power - Conyers and the last..........Ms Rose-Collins and her infamous quotes........was in 1996.......anyone remember these gems?

The Detroit Free Press newspaper published a story in July and reported that Collins said racism is "so ingrained in American society that there's nothing I can do about it. I think God is going to have to burn it out of White people." In another quote in the story, Collins said, "All White people, I don't believe, are intolerant. That's why I say I love the individuals, but I hate the race..." "The reporter, Anne Hazard, said she turned over the tape of the two-hour interview to the newspaper and a 22-page transcript.

"I stand by the accuracy of the quotes," said Hazard.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_n1
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Ok Collins we can hate the black race then too, but love the individuals right???????? Ummmmmmm but, but that would be racist!!!!!!!!! lol  

Isn`t it funny how politicians scream "I was misquoted" so often though? But you say well that was in `96 surely she has matured.........okay how about 2006.....you really need to read the full article on the Zoo closing hoopla that year, it`s hilarious........

Last week, the mayor presented the plan to the city council - which shocked everyone by voting 7-2 instead to reject the plan, which meant that the city would have to close the zoo.

Some of the council members, especially Barbara-Rose Collins, seemed to justify their vote on openly racist grounds. She made it clear that she would rather have no zoo than one that was run by whites.

"This is not a plantation," said Ms. Collins, who was once a congressman until she held a fund-raiser in a strip club and lost an election to Mayor Kilpatrick's mother. "Black folks aren't owned by white folks any more," she said, in justifying her vote.

The situation was not helped by L. Brooks Patterson, the loud-mouthed executive of Oakland County, where the zoo is located. "I would rather own a '48 Buick than own Barbara-Rose Collins," he shot back, adding that the city council members themselves belonged in the zoo.

Not all the council members were primarily motivated by race, Some of the naysayers were mostly irritated with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who dropped his zoo plan in council's lap at 4:45 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17 - and then left to join his mother, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick, on a congressional junket to Africa.

What was totally unclear is why the mayor thought it was necessary or appropriate to go on the junket to Africa - or why he didn't come back immediately when the zoo crisis exploded.

There was a moment of comic relief when six of the naysaying councilmen held a press conference. Monica Conyers, a newly elected council member who is the wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D., Detroit), managed to leave everyone speechless.

She suggested that Detroit's major corporations give the city money to help it run the zoo, and suggested that "GM could pay for the elephants."

After an embarrassed pause, reporters explained to her that the zoo has no elephants.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?A
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( I`m laughing so hard here..maybe she meant Shrek?......LOL )

But this is part of what is sitting on Council at present and Conyers will become Council President if Kwame is ousted..........can you envision this comedy of errors coming to fruition then?