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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 10:58 PM
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Poll question: Kwame Kilpatrick
His "apology" tonight shows...
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 12:14 PM
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1. When they said he'd be doing it from his church
I was expecting him to speak from the pulpit or something, pull a Swagart. But it looked like some back room, so I don't get why it had to be done there. Just for emotional appeal? In any case it was tactless. But, that isn't exactly surprising. Neither, if I may digress, was the RW Detroit News' reaction this morning, painting it in the best light imaginable and editoralising that it was a "good first step." My arse!
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sandyj999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 08:23 PM
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2. Kwame is a player.
He seems to think he entitled to use the finances of Detroit as his pocket money. This has been going on since he took office and people just keep re-electing him. So in a way they deserve him.
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LuckyTheDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 08:58 PM
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3. They were duped
Kilpatrick won reelection because:

1) he convinced a lot of people (including deep-pocketed board members of Detroit Renaissance) that he had changed and

2) because Freeman Hendrix ran a bad campaign and never "made the sale" to the voters or to the business community.
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GigiMommy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-01-08 10:06 PM
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4. There's so much more to this story...
I don't think we even know the HALF of it.
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