Today's the day! (Detroit, Wayne: appointed, house, live in)

[MICoastieMom]

Governor Jennifer Granholm holds a hearing on the removal of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at 9:00. Who will be watching besides me?

[Freemore]

I am. This is going well for the governor to Blast his B*** out of office!
I learned today why some call Ms. McPhail so many awful names.

[MICoastieMom]

Wow! Talk about deja vu! It was almost like watching the Watergate hearings all over again! I the thought the expert witness- law professor from Wayne State did an excellent job. It was just like sitting in one of his first year contract classes. I learned so much because he did such a great job of presenting his testimony.

[MICoastieMom]

Today is a bittersweet day in Michigan. Yesterday the governor began misconduct hearings on Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick. This morning, the now-former mayor appeared in court and plead guilty to 2 perjury charges and on count of assualting a court officer. Both the city of Detroit and the state of Michigan had brought charges.
He has to resign immediately, surrender his law license, serve 120 days in jail, be placed on reporting probation for 5 years, make restitution to the amount of $1,000,000. He is barred from running from public office for the duration of his probation.

I am no fan of the mayor, he was always too slick for my taste, but I will admit he did do some good things for Detroit. He instituted programs to stop the burning of abandoned buildings on Devil's Night, to tear down abandon homes so they could not become havens for drug dealers/users, and to clean up empty lots to they did not become impromptu dumping grounds for who knows what.

My hope is that the mayor's supporters and his detractors can heal their rift soon and allow the city to heal and move out of the paralysis it has been caught in the past 5 ot 6 years since this whole mess started. The real victims here are the citizens of Detroit.

The police chief announced her retirement in the midst of the court hearings. I suspect this will be the first of many appointees who will leave. This is an opportune time to clean house and rid the city of as much corruption as possible. I hope that those of us who live in neighboring communites have the class to refrain from gloating and can each, in our own way, contribute to restoring Detroit to the grand lady she once was. Helping Detroit rise above this fiasco will help all of Southeast Michigan and restore its image as a good place to do business.

That is my hope anyway.

[ronaldl79]

I just read the news about Kilpatrick and I'm happy to see this drama come to an end. Kilpatrick was not the right choice for Detroit, but it was Detroiters who appointed him to begin with.

It will take more than a Mayor to clean up Detroit's act. Detroiters themselves are also responsible for Detroit's turnaround and I'm not confident that many will take the necessary steps to do so.

Here are just a few ways Detroiters can help make Detroit better:

1. Refrain from littering
2. Place trash in receptacles
3. Refrain from defacing property

If Detroiters did just the above three things, Detroit would improve over night. This is was one of my many gripes with the people of Detroit, which is my hometown and where I lived for 21 of my 29 years on Earth.