Stupid Detroiters On Parade

Kilpatrick supporters, one sandwich short of a picnic

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A steady stream of people flowed in, out and around Cadillac Place on Wednesday as a hearing proceeded inside to determine whether Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should be removed from office.

Some came to the building in the New Center area to watch history unfold. This is the first time a Michigan governor has begun the process to remove a mayor.

Calleen Jones of Detroit said she does not understand how the mayor can be kicked out of office without having been convicted of a crime.

"I don't understand how we can have hearings to oust the mayor before he is convicted of an alleged crime," she said. "I am annoyed with the news. I know there are other things going on in the state that we should be focusing on more than this."

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Ok Calleen, Let me explain this mystery to you...its the city council's right and prerogative...they can ask the Governor to remove the Mayor if they feel Detroit City business cannot get due attention from his office due to circumstances...such as the text scandal. 

You can be "annoyed at the news" if you want but it is akin to being annoyed with the messenger but not the message. 

Journalists didn't make this mess, the Mayor and his upper echelon of staff did...be annoyed with them.

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Aisha Bowen, a 63-year-old Detroiter, does not like the governor presiding over the ouster hearing.

"This is our house. If you aren't a registered voter in the City of Detroit, you have no business with our city," she said of non-Detroiters making decisions that impact Detroiters.

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Ok Aisha...since it's your house I hold you responsible...why didn't you do anything?

Let me edumacate you Aisha...Michigan State Law supersedes any city ruling or decision. 

What is being done is legal, judicial and proper...just because its beyond your comprehension does not make it any less correct and appropriate.

And by the way...the pathetic rundown way "your house" has been governed effects the whole state, so yes, those who don't live within the city but still reside in Michigan DO have a say and a right to see justice served.

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The mayor's aunt, Marsha Cheeks, said she will come out to support Kilpatrick every day, if necessary, as she handed out fliers claiming the "Governor continues to slap Detroit."

"When you relinquish local control to the state government, what message does that send?" she asked. "We are appalled that an elected governor would come and call a hearing and diminish our votes. She (Granholm) has clearly indicated she does not respect due process. It is a voting rights issue."

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I fully expect this from the unusually small Kilpatrick gene pool...Marsha dear? It's called the law...your family may not be familiar with it but the rest of Michigan is and abides by it.

The Governor should not only slap Detroit but spank it and send it to bed without supper.

The Governor didn't call the hearing...the Detroit City Council requests his removal hearing...the city council....you know the ones YOU elected...what a load of idiots these Kilpatricks are.

Marsha, Can't the Kilpatricks find another city to go destroy? 

There is nothing left in Detroit to steal, sell, exploit, use, pollute, destroy, mutilate or annoy....your work here is done.

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