Egad.
Have you noticed the latest news out of this once-great, world capital of the automotive industry? It is sounding like the story-line out of some smutty TV soap/cop drama.
They have a married mayor up there named Kwame Kilpatrick (pictured) who evidently and nonetheless had a smashing crush on his chief aide lady. It is alleged they took their mutual concubine-ness to new levels.
Then some local police got a little too close to the drama and hizzonor canned a couple of them.
That led to a messy law suit and it seems some evidence did exist to support the good guy’s allegations. That, in turn, led to a payoff with public money somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 million smackeroos.
About then a local newspaper filed suit to make all the tawdry paperwork public—and won.
A couple of hours later, (February 28th) those documents emerged and it sounds like the whole sordid affair is true.
Transcripts between hizz-not-so-honorable-honor and the temporary squeeze reveal they did indeed enjoy some sizzling frolics.
Which really was followed by a boat load of high-priced lawyers who slicked the entire episode past city council in the form of an out-of-court settlement that was “...in the best interests of the city” or some such nonsense.
Now what Detroit?
Are you going to struggle out of this swamp or will you continue to be like some wag once famously said of a then-declining Seattle, Will the last person out of town, please turn off the lights?
Curious? aim your favorite search engine at The Detroit News, where, by the way, the above photo originated.
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