Will Kwame Kilpatrick resign?

[LuckyTheDog]

Poll question: Will Kwame Kilpatrick resign?

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been in seclusion since the revelations about his affair with his chief of staff and the possibility that he could facer perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080128/NEWS01/801280341\

Will be resign?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. He'll try to keep his job

He'll try to spin the whole thing as being about "sex", therefore personal, and he and his family are working it out.

He'll try to divert attention from the use of city funds for hotels, etc. And from using his position to fire whistle-blowers. He'll try to take our minds off the perjury, and the $9M settlement. City money is not "real" money, don'cha know?

If heads must roll, then adios to his chief-of-staff.

[PassingFair]

2. Yep. She's toast.

I'd like to see the "settlement" overturned and
the case reopened.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. I don't think the settlement will be overturned

No real grounds for that, I think. 9M seemed excessive, but that was the agreement.

I saw another note on another board, predicting that Kwame will be charged, convicted, disbarred, jailed, then re-elected mayor.

:)

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Another $150M lawsuit

Now the family of the exotic dancer who was killed after the "alleged" party at the Manoogian mansion is suing. Some of the text messages may indicate that Kwame was involved in removing the cop who was investigating the death.

Kwame was adamant that "there was no party".

It just keeps piling up.

[Strawman]

5. To be fair...

Didn't the attorney general investigate this alleged party and find that story to be false? In my opinion, that party story doesn't have to be true for the mayor to have abused his office by firing a whistleblower and an investigator who had found evidence of his infidelity.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. Fair? When there's money to be made?

Now that all the mayor's denials are suspect, including the alleged party, the city coffers are open for the taking. The $150M is a joke, but if the city will settle for a few million, then it's like a lottery win. The woman's family has nothing to lose, and the attorney has nothing to lose but a little of his time.

And if it goes to trial, a jury might believe that the AG's investigation was tainted, by politics or by lies.

[Strawman]

10. Yeah that's true

"the city coffers are open for the taking."

Whether that party happened or not, you're right. Nothing this mayor says is believable.

[noonwitch]

9. Kwame got Mike Cox (R) to back him on that one, too

"Everybody knows you love me, baby
everybody knows that you really do.
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
So many people you had to meet
without your clothes

Everybody knows"

Leonard Cohen


Everyone in Detroit has known about his affair with Christine Beatty and everyone in Detroit knows that the stripper party occurred.

[maddogesq]

7. Why I want Kwame to go down in flames.

It is not because of this. It is because I think he is a tool, especially of certain Republicans. This has been discussed before, but it now comes home to roost. And every time I went to Cobo for a state convention, His Honor was not to be seen. Just an observation from a man with kind of crappy eyesight.

Let's try it this way:

I think Bill Clinton's latest goofs are proof that he may be less progressive than I thought he was. Think about it.

[JNelson6563]

8. No.

Anyone who is too stupid to realize you don't put stuff you don't want the world to see into writing is too stupid to see the writing on the wall. He will be dragged out kicking and screaming.

Julie