The Democrat Mayor might go to jail for years but it's not ALL bad news in the D!
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And so the official Kwame Kilpatrick Resignation Watch begins. Yesterday the Wayne County prosecutor courageously (two words... Bobby Ferguson) handed down a twelve count indictment against the Mayor of Detroit that included eight felony charges with decades worth of prison time hanging in the balance. All but his most ardent supporters are calling for the man to step down and that includes the good folks in even the most leftist corners of the mainstream media.
Take this little nugget from this morning's Ivory Tower:
We don't deserve this, didn't ask for it, and shouldn't tolerate the man who brought it all on us.
The saddest consequence of all this, of course, is being visited upon our beleaguered city, already paralyzed by this scandal and now the subject of international ridicule. The mug shots taken of the mayor ricocheted around our digital world in an instant. When he's arraigned, the video will play ad nauseam on TV stations around the globe. It's a milestone that has others asking: What in God's name is going on in Detroit?
The mug shots he mentioned are, of course, below. I'd hate to make a liar out of Stephen Henderson.
I understand where the Hip Hop Mayor is coming from. He's a fighter. Big time. He wants to kick in his critics teeth... by himself, Mr. Ferguson, you can sit back down.
But Mr. Mayor... geez. C'mon. I'm not even from Detroit but you've got to understand, Detroit IS Michigan. I understand that legally it's only a small portion of the State but it's how we identify ourselves. It's how others identify us. It's perception. And we're already hurting. We don't need your help.
Just look at the non-Kwame headlines in the City. The Detroit News, for instance, is reporting that violent assaults in the Detroit Public Schools are actually DOWN to 864. Which is maybe the most depressing bit of good news I've heard in a long, long time.
Rates of occurrence remained about the same as in previous years for most other reported crimes. There have been 159 assaults against teachers so far this year, as well as 81 felonious assaults, 41 incidences of criminal sexual conduct, and 20 armed robberies. There were no murders.
The district has released new crime statistics showing attacks on other students declined from 1,186 during the first half of the 2005-06 school year, to 864 during first semester this year.
Those aren't crimes committed by students. Those are crimes committed by students ON school property. Forty-one incidences of criminal sexual conduct? On school property. This year alone. That has nothing to do with socio-economic conditions, welfare rates, crumbling buildings or anything like that. That's just plain people behaving like animals. And now you toss in a Mayor running around on his wife, lying about it under oath, holding wild parties (allegedly) and then turning up dead strippers.
At the very least, though, the Democrat mayor's refusal to do the right thing (again) makes one thing crystal clear. He couldn't care less about the city of Detroit. He's all about himself. He's always been all about himself. The rest of us? We don't matter. Just the little people. And hey, he couldn't deliver on the bread but darn it all if he won't give us the biggest circus of our lives.
Which, apparently, is OK with most Michigan Democrats. Kwame still has a decent amount of support inside the D and Dem leaders, elected officials, commentators and bloggers have all been quiet as church mice with only a few semi-notable exceptions. And even then they try to change the subject. Clean house boys and girls, then come back and talk to us about honor and integrity and a new kind of politics and change and whatever the heck else your Michigan hating Presidential nominee-in-waiting is talking about this week.
It isn't the auto industry. Though maybe it should be. I bet he could have a lot of fun with the latest AP article discussing the future of the domestic auto industry.
"We don't often get to deliver good news."
Michigan has lost more than 300,000 jobs since mid-2000, and another 33,000 positions will vanish over the next two years, analysts say. Most of the losses are in manufacturing.
Conditions are leveling off, Dziczek said, and by 2016 layoffs won't dominate headlines...
"The bleeding has stopped," said Kristin Dziczek, director of the program for automotive labor and education at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor.
I don't mean to be a stick in the mud... who am I kidding, yes I do... if we're going to lose 33,000 more jobs in the next two years then I'd say the blood is still flowing pretty freely. Talk to me once that little hemorrhage is under control.
And how's that last sentence for spin on "good news." Layoffs in Michigan's biggest industry won't dominate the headlines by 2016. Fire up! Somebody get on the phone with Cobo Hall and schedule the entire venue. We'll throw a giant party. Joint celebration. 2016... no more negative news about the domestic autos and Kwame'll be getting out of jail. Maybe. I'll bring the ice cream.