DETROIT (AP) [1] – With his city teetering above a financial abyss, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went before television viewers this month and delivered some grave news: He had no choice but to lay off nearly 700 city workers and cut services. This was no time for wanton spending, he said.
Days later, Kilpatrick found his own spending under attack when a local television station reported that the city just signed a $25,000 lease for a Lincoln Navigator for Kilpatrick’s wife — a fact the mayor at first denied but eventually confirmed.
The Navigator story snowballed after Kilpatrick’s bodyguard shoved a TV reporter against a wall. It was just the latest in a series of allegations that the 34-year-old former college football player has used city resources to enhance his personal life.
Well, at what point do we see some admission this is part and parcel of the Democrat party?