Time to tell Kilpatrick he simply must go so city can move on

[Faygo Kid]

Time to tell Kilpatrick he simply must go so city can move on

City and state leaders have to speak up to end this mess

BY STEPHEN HENDERSON • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • July 26, 2008

To what end are we all being forced to watch the tragic self-immolation of Kwame Kilpatrick?

What purpose is being served by the mayor of Detroit holding hostage the business of the city and the attention of the region, if not the entire state?

Plainly, his increasingly destructive chain of behavior leads nowhere good for anyone, him least of all. The endgame is clear and inevitable: Kilpatrick must leave. The city must move on.

Only the delusional can believe Kilpatrick will emerge from his morass of criminal charges and suspicions to remain mayor, as if nothing had ever happened. Too much trust has been broken. Too many of his actions over the past six months -- the tirades, the self-serving accusations and, last week, the escalation to irrational and dangerous behavior -- have tossed accelerants onto his incendiary circumstances. He has gone from suspect to thug, from public problem to public menace. . . .

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/COL33/807270486

Both Detroit papers have had it, and so have the good people of a city that has had hard times. It's time to end this charade.

By the way, Kwame's mother, Rep. Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick - a good congresswoman - could actually lose her seat because of her son and the backlash against him.

[Blue_Tires]

1. sad

a lot of my friends in Detroit had such high hope for the improvement he could make when he first came on the scene...