Kwami Says He Sorry, Won't Destroy Another City Again

Kilpatrick rejects deal for resignation

If Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick resigns office by Sept. 3, the Attorney General's office will drop one of the felony charges against him, a representative from that office said this morning at his court arraignment.

But Kilpatrick's attorney James Thomas quickly rejected the offer after the hearing, calling it "gratuitous."

Kilpatrick stood mute and the court entered a not-guilty plea on the two felony charges he faces for an alleged July 24 altercation with investigators assigned to his perjury case.

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Sweet......I don't know what I would do if he did quit.

Probably just sit around all day making deposits into the spank bank, after you apply to several hundred places for work whats a guy to do?

I am now officially calling this Festivus Detroiticus, a constantly running holiday until Kwami resigns. Something akin to Circus Maximus only not even mildly entertaining.

Don't you love the pitiful forlorn look, that thousand yard stare for the media to take pity on?

PULEEZE...he has obviously mastered that look with years of getting caught doing bad things and wiggling out of it.


I can't get a girl
cuz I ain't got a car
I can't get a car
cuz I ain't got a job
I can't get a job
cuz I ain't got a car
So I'm looking for a girl
with a job and a car
Don't you know where you are

Lost in America

_Alice Cooper



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The Synagro deal: FBI investigates Detroit City Council

A waste contract approved last year by the Detroit City Council is under federal investigation. The council voted 5-4 in November 2007 to award Synagro Technologies Inc., based in Houston, Texas, a contract to handle the city's processed sewage for close to $47 million a year.

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Good link shows much of the timeline history of the scandal in Detroit I recommend it.

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A study in Machiavellian policies applied to modern day politics.

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Detroit City Council


City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers was back at work Thursday -- after more than a month in recovery from outpatient surgery -- and said she's done nothing wrong in connection with the federal investigation into a $47 million sludge deal. - 08/08/2008


City Councilwoman Martha Reeves met with James R. Rosendall, the suspended Synagro Technologies Inc. official who is at the center of an FBI and grand jury investigation. - 07/26/2008

City Council member Sheila Cockrel said Thursday she received a grand jury subpoena to produce all her documents related to two deals approved by the City Council under federal investigation. Cockrel also confirmed that she got a letter from the FBI saying her conversations were picked up on federal wiretaps of other people's phones. Her phones were not tapped and Cockrel repeatedly has said she is not a target of the investigation and did nothing improper.
- 07/17/2008

FBI agents told City Councilwoman Barbara-Rose Collins on Tuesday that she is the "subject" of a federal public corruption probe into accusations that city officials accepted money to approve a sludge-hauling contract, she confirmed. - 07/09/2008


Well one things for sure, if they received kick backs they sure didn't blow them on makeovers.

The FBI is probing the 5-4 vote last November of a contract with Synagro Technologies Inc. of Houston to provide sludge hauling. Several council members denied they are targets of the probe, which sources say has focused on a former aide to Cockrel, Synagro lobbyist James Rosendall, his minority partner in the deal, Rayford Jackson, and Councilwoman Monica Conyers.

Rosendall is a cooperating witness in the investigation. His attorneys issued a statement on his behalf Monday saying, "the Synagro contract was, and still is a good deal for the city of Detroit. It will save the city millions in sludge disposal cost. It also significantly reduces emissions in Detroit."

"I made a mistake; I did business with the city of Detroit," Rosendall said in the statement. " I am fully cooperating with the FBI."

I love that last line, it says it all doesn't it? Had to put it in bold.


Mama been laid off
Papa been laid off
My brothers been laid off
For more than two years now
Ooh, can't get a job
Billy can't get a job
Ooh, they gotta listen to the blues

-Sade



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The wedding was on a Michigan beach, the reception was in an art gallery -- but a former Chicago couple's wedding night was spent in separate jail cells after both bride and groom got shocked by a police Taser and arrested at their raucous reception.

Gallery co-owner Tom Burnison, however, said that, fueled by alcohol, it got out of control and potentially dangerous, including when a guest heaved a metal lamp into a plate glass window.

One guest was seen drinking straight out of a vodka bottle.

The officer called for backup and told everyone the party was over.

It's a must read people click the link.

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First off thank God for cell phone cameras and digital cameras...they make life so entertaining.

Throwing lamps? Drinking from fifth bottles? How come I never get to go to these things?

Last wedding I went to was no alcohol, no nicotine, no caffeine and no I am not kidding.

And why is it everyone feels they have to act like a rock star on a reality show when they get drunk?



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Investigators to interview new witness in Tamara Greene lawsuit

A Detroit Fire Department lieutenant who came forward after five years to say he encountered an injured Tamara Greene said he has been contacted by Wayne County prosecutors and the state Attorney General's Office to set up official interviews for his statement.

Lt. Michael J. Kearns spoke to the media Thursday about his encounter with Greene, who told him she had been beaten by the Detroit mayor's wife after dancing at Manoogian Mansion in the fall of 2002. Greene was 27 in 2003 when shot to death in a car on the city's west side.

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has consistently denied that the party ever happened. Attorney General Mike Cox investigated it and dismissed it as an urban legend. However, former Deputy Chief Gary Brown and another officer successfully sued the city for $8.4 million because they alleged, among other things, that they were retaliated against because they either had knowledge of or were ready to investigate the existence

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I just love that mug shot of Christine Beatty and Kwami Kilpatrick, Can you imagine them going at it?

It would be like two circus giants fighting in some WWF match gone awry, you know it was hot sweaty nasty talking power trip sex too.

And there is lovely Carlita, she is the one who started all this...get in your way back machine Mr.Peabody.

If you remember she was the one who wanted a Cadillac Escolade paid for by the City of Detroit, The city council denied it, she got one anyway on the city's dime, news reporters here in Detroit found out....it was all downhill from there.

You just know Carlita was ripping Kwami a new one when he told her he couldn't get her one...so he pressed for it again back at the office, just some yelling and bullying an voila` she got her car.

That one seemingly small and petty event has exploded every one of the corrupt nuts in Detroit government for what they are and what they have done.

If they find out what happens to Tamara Green....its one of the main reasons I am still in Michigan is just waiting for this to injustice to be rectified by the courts.

It will reaffirm my faith in humanity.



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