You may or may not know that I live very near the city of Detroit.
Three's been a lot of news coming out of the city recently concerning Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
He's been charged with something like 15 counts of perjury stemming from a trial where he testified that he was not having an affair with is the Chief of Staff. Text messages sent on a city owned pager seem to suggest otherwise.
He recently spent a night in the county jail when a judge revoked his bond because the mayor made a trip to Canada without informing the court or asking permission to go.
He's now out on $50,000 bond and wearing a tether.
He will be arraigned today on two counts of felony assault related to claims that he shoved a sheriffs deputy and a process server who were trying to serve a subpoena on one of the mayors friends.
If you're not a local, have you heard about any of this?
What are your thoughts? What do you think of when you think of Detroit? What do you think when someone tells you they're from Detroit?
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A commenter at the Freep (yesterday, I think) mentioned that they read an article from the LA Times and that one of the comments there said, "It's Detroit. Who cares?" That's pretty much what people think of Detroit. Of course, the west coasters think that about Chicago, too, so I'm not sure it matters what they think.
Especially since I've been to LA and it's just a bigger, dirtier, nastier Detroit, IMHO.
The city of Huntington, WV has experienced a marked increase in crime during the last 4 years, even including the simultaneous deaths of 4 college-age residents, all having attended the same party. These deaths have been attributed to two Detroit-based drug runners, who as of yet, have not been apprehended. Other drug-related crimes always seem to lead back to Detroit. The actions of the mayor do nothing to better an already tainted image many West Virginians have of Detroit. Granted, there are good and bad people everywhere, but as usual, only the bad stuff gets reported. As is often pointed out, if there were no market for the drugs, drug-related crime would not occur.
I remember the story in the Freep re: Greg's post. So embarrassing that our criminals feel the need to invade other states and destroy them too.
BTW, re: my blogpost today - I was including you, Mona and Peanut in that...and I'm 95% serious. ;-)
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