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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Jan 28, 2008 13:12:47 GMT -5
Make it plain, make it plain.
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Post by androidque on Jan 28, 2008 13:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by Warner Fite on Jan 28, 2008 13:47:11 GMT -5
I agree with AQue.
I have read and heard stories about Kilpatrick and his inept leadership in Detroit. I'm in Detroit twice a year, and I can't begin to tell you how many times I've heard less than stellar remarks about him in speaking with people from the area or when listening to the local news when I'm in town.
He lacks a ton a political savvy, and in my opinion, with the problems that Detroit has historically been faced with, The city needs a politically savvy individual that can make inroads with the state and D.C. lobbyist to get things turned around. I don't see that in Kilpatrick. He's your throwback 1970-80's reckless politician with corrupt ethics. These type of politicians, both black and white, helped ruin alot of our cities during that era...he's a pothole politician at best.
The way his affair was handled best sums up his legacy as Mayor of Detroit. I put him right up there with Sharpe James and Marion Barry...
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Post by BKupInHere on Jan 28, 2008 14:14:17 GMT -5
JUST IN CASE ANYONE IS TOO CLICK ON Android's link (btw: AQ,great article...I will exalt U promptly)
Again please note that the following article was written over 3 YEARS AGO...
Ethics for idiots
by Ric Bohy
10/20/2004
Kwame’s administration appears to have all the ethics of a car-trunk seafood salesman. By the way, it’s OK to refer to Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick by his first name; that’s how he does it himself, in the third person.
There’s plenty of evidence: Appointees who pick the public pocket, then get off with paying back only some of it because they already spent the rest. So many city-paid high school cronies of the young mayor that they can barely fit at one table when sponging drinks at high-end downtown restaurants. And then there’s that solid gold example of ethical ignorance, mayoral chief of staff Christine Beatty, and her care and feeding by the big man himself.
Put aside her alleged after-hours relationship with Kwame. There’s precedent for it. Coleman Young once had a girlfriend/appointee (referred to by at least one of his pals as “Coleman’s little ham sandwich”), whose ineptitude led to the vermin infestation and rotting of hundreds of tons of federal surplus food for the poor. Young tried valiantly to shield his sweet-patootie from the consequences of her massive screw-up, but that much howling from that many hungry mouths left them both spattered with rat-gnawed cheese.
Beatty’s a different case. She knows what she’s doing. And what she’s doing makes a mockery of all true public servants who remember exactly who their employer is and do their jobs with as much honesty and energy as they can muster.
A few Detroit cops learned exactly who Beatty is when she was stopped for speeding one night on rain-slick Livernois. She made sure of it with a foul-mouthed tirade at the officers who offended her, then got off the hook by calling the police chief on her cell phone. Taking the ticket would’ve only hurt her already miserable driving record. Kwame’s reaction to this, when pressed for one? Chrissy must’ve been set up by the cops, no two ways about it. He sullied an entire, already morale-parched city department for the sake of one girlfr, er, appointee. Now all cops know exactly who Beatty is.
And loan officers at one bank know who she is too. She made sure of it. Since her credit history is in the same shape as her driving record, Christine faced certain resistance when she applied for a loan to buy a $237,000 pad in Rosedale Park. So she asked the folks at Fifth Third Bank to give her a break and, no fools they, she got it. She wrote her request on the letterhead of Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor of Detroit. She signed it as Christine Beatty, the mayor’s chief of staff. The reasoning, evident in court documents, was a little mutual fingernail action. Scratch Christine’s itch, and the city will scratch the bank’s. Fifth Third was so eager to start in scratching that it not only forgave Beatty’s low standing as a credit risk, but kicked in $12,000 to help out with the down payment. Chrissy, by the way, pulls down more than $140,000 a year from her city job.
Quizzed about this by pesky reporters — at least, those who don’t work for bosses who regard and ignore some Detroit news as “divisive” — Mayoral Chief of Staff Christine Beatty, whose words and actions set the tone for all those beneath her just as surely as the mayor’s, said she did nothing wrong.
It’s her personal opinion that this particular tit for tat doesn’t violate a city charter provision that says no to using public office to leverage personal gain.
But let’s suppose that no such charter prohibition existed. Let’s just say it’s a question of personal ethics and ethical standards. Christine Beatty may not be Caesar’s wife — actually, we’ve heard nothing from her during all this — but she should still be above reproach. And figuring out whether she is in this instance is not a toughie — it doesn’t require consultation with top ethics professors at five major universities to say, without fear of contradiction, that she ain’t.
So what’s Caesar have to say? He says he, Kwame, did nothing wrong. And instead of looking at Beatty’s clear-cut, plain-as-day influence peddling, her boyfr, er, boss howled about the outrage of her personal financial records being made public. It’s worth noting at this juncture that all this came out as part of a lawsuit filed by a couple of former cops who say they were canned for looking a little too closely at the mayor’s hanky-panky.
You have to draw one of two conclusions from Kilpatrick administration behavior so far. Either they, and he, don’t know an ethical breach even when it threatens to bite them on the ass, or they, and he, don’t care.
Considering that much of the young mayor’s original support came from Bible-thumping, God-fearing senior voters, he might want to invest in a copy of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Ethics, then stay home for one night and at least skim it.
Or, like the Slim Pickens character in Dr. Strangelove, he can ride this bomb to the ground (no prurient implication intended).
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Post by ReignMan19 on Jan 28, 2008 14:24:13 GMT -5
They should've never let black folk run for office...
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Post by kingdelta on Jan 28, 2008 14:52:10 GMT -5
Aw Reignman!! White folks been doing this forever!
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Post by BKupInHere on Jan 28, 2008 16:16:18 GMT -5
<--would love to be a fly on the wall @ the next chapter meeting Kwame's wife & his mistress attend
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Post by ReignMan19 on Jan 28, 2008 16:28:38 GMT -5
Aw Reignman!! White folks been doing this forever! if one more black person uses this has an excuse and or reason to justify or even make light of some ignorant ish a black person does. I'm asking for a race refund... for real take this ish back... |
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Post by Vudu_Prince on Jan 28, 2008 17:04:20 GMT -5
Man hayle to the naw I just seen some pics on Carlita Kilpatrick and if I got the right pics she stacked like a mofo. That beaty chick look like a middle school field hockey coach. WTF
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Post by androidque on Jan 28, 2008 22:03:28 GMT -5
lmao @ VP I've been saying the same shit for years now. I guess Beatty got that fiyah mouth game or something
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Post by Troopa1911 on Jan 28, 2008 22:12:24 GMT -5
"Kwame’s administration appears to have all the ethics of a car-trunk seafood salesman."
Chapter Invisible here I kome.
DEAD.
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Post by androidque on Jan 29, 2008 9:47:02 GMT -5
Correction: 2 Strippers ended up dead after that party. One had went to the ATL and got killed and one was killed here
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Post by BklynPearl on Jan 29, 2008 9:58:39 GMT -5
Oh now WTH??
This is a soap opera based HOT MESS!!!
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Jan 29, 2008 10:15:54 GMT -5
She is beautiful, but behind that smile you never know what that woman put up with for the sake of her marriage- well now we do...
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Jan 29, 2008 10:18:08 GMT -5
....see I never did trust a nicca in a shiny suit.
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Post by Robelite on Jan 29, 2008 10:20:23 GMT -5
Bro. Kwame up there trying to be a "playa," and his big ass got caught!! It's really a shame, because he's a sharp young brother who had a great political future ahead of him. He had mad support from some major political personalities when he ran for Mayor of Detroit, the previous mayor Bro. Dennis Archer among them.
I met him when he spoke at one of the luncheons at the 2003 National Convention in Detroit, and I knew then that he was a cocky mofo...which I really didn't have a problem with; after all he is an Alpha. BUT, he let his cockiness get him a deep hole of isht with this one...pun intended!
He's got a serious situation on his hands, and I'm not sure he's gonna recover politically from this.
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Jan 29, 2008 10:22:20 GMT -5
LOL @ big ass... Those be the main ones...LOL!
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Post by Warner Fite on Jan 29, 2008 11:12:08 GMT -5
Bro. Kwame up there trying to be a "playa," and his big ass got caught!! It's really a shame, because he's a sharp young brother who had a great political future ahead of him. He had mad support from some big-time names when he ran for Mayor of Detroit, namely, a previous mayor, Bro. Dennis Archer, just to name a few. I met him when he spoke at one of the luncheons at the 2003 National Convention in Detroit, and I knew then that he was a cocky mofo...which I really didn't have a problem with; after all he is an Alpha. BUT, he let his cockiness get him a deep hole of isht with this one...pun intended! He's got a serious situation on his hands, and I'm not sure he's gonna recover politically from this. He is ANYTHING but sharp. I've heard him speak about his plans for Detroit at the Mayors Conference in '07. Idiot...Coleman doesn't fall far from the "Detroit Mayor's Apple tree" either. I don't have a problem with cockiness..... <--cocky son-a-gun... But have a purpose behind it. I guess he's cocky because he's an Alpha **shrugs**...I guess that's a good reason.... ...in relative terms, of course. |
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Post by BklynPearl on Jan 29, 2008 11:19:54 GMT -5
....see I never did trust a nicca in a shiny suit. ...with a matching pimp hat. |
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Post by FULLOFME on Jan 29, 2008 11:33:45 GMT -5
and we know what he had on his feet LOL
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Post by Warner Fite on Jan 29, 2008 11:35:38 GMT -5
and we know what he had on his feet LOL puhleeeease tell me this guy didn't have on some gators?.... |
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Post by kingdelta on Jan 29, 2008 11:40:53 GMT -5
Aw Reignman!! White folks been doing this forever! if one more black person uses this has an excuse and or reason to justify or even make light of some ignorant ish a black person does. I'm asking for a race refund... for real take this ish back... LOL!! No. You just said that black people shouldn't run but why should we let white people get away with it? |
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Post by Ms. RedamnDickulous on Jan 29, 2008 11:44:36 GMT -5
and we know what he had on his feet LOL puhleeeease tell me this guy didn't have on some gators?.... Caymen Gators at that... |
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Post by Warner Fite on Jan 29, 2008 11:46:59 GMT -5
puhleeeease tell me this guy didn't have on some gators?.... Caymen Gators at that... LMAO! |
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Post by FULLOFME on Jan 29, 2008 11:48:16 GMT -5
Man living in Detroit=Man wearing gators
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Post by Warner Fite on Jan 29, 2008 11:56:46 GMT -5
Man living in Detroit=Man wearing gators LMAO!....MAOL!....AOLM!...OAML! |
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Post by Troopa1911 on Jan 29, 2008 12:06:47 GMT -5
That dude has really fukked up his marriage, career and life. SMH
On a lighter note:
I like the hat he is sporting...I have one very similar I even wore mind to work today (Chocolate Brown Hat, Chocolate brown leather coat, Chocolate brown shoes and belt). ;D
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Post by FULLOFME on Jan 29, 2008 12:08:03 GMT -5
Are the shoes gators?
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Post by BklynPearl on Jan 29, 2008 12:19:39 GMT -5
That dude has really fukked up his marriage, career and life. SMH
On a lighter note:
I like the hat he is sporting...I have one very similar I even wore mind to work today (Chocolate Brown Hat, Chocolate brown leather coat, Chocolate brown shoes and belt). ;D Who are you trying to mack at the job? LOL!!! I see you Nupe. ;D ETA: Are you rocking gators or what?? |
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Post by androidque on Jan 29, 2008 12:23:23 GMT -5
Man living in Detroit=Man wearing gators <=== doesn't own any gators <=== has a couple pair of snake skins though |
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