Come On Brotha?!?!?!?!?

Wow, this really looks bad. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick spent last night in jail –for violating the terms of his bond by traveling to Canada. When he woke up this morning Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox charged him with two counts of felony assault – for assaulting an officer trying to serve a subpoena. This is in addition to the eight felony charges that he is already facing – for trying to cover up an affair with his now resigned chief of staff, Christine Beatty. Moments before Mr. Cox’s announcement, a circuit court judge allowed the mayor to be released from jail after posting a $50,000 cash bond. He also took away the mayor’s travel privileges and ordered him to wear a global-positioning tether. But Mayor Kilpatrick could soon be headed back to jail, as today’s assault charges would be another bond violation.

Mr. Cox, a Republican who called for Mr. Kilpatrick to resign in March and who is widely expected to run for governor in 2010, decided to bring the assault charges after reviewing a report from the state police, who investigated the Democratic mayor’s run-in with the Sheriff’s department. (Detroit Press)

Now I am sympathetic to the condition of Black elected officials but the is ridicules. I can’t even say that I feel sorry for the embattled mayor. It is really sad that for the first time in Detroit's 307-year history a sitting mayor has been imprisoned. All this could have been avoided if he had only told the truth about his relationship with Christine Beatty under oath. He has now tarnished his reputation, his name, the office and has put his family under undue stress and embarrassment just for being, how can I put this nicely, a dog.

We will be watching. Hopefully he will redeem himself by stepping down as mayor and quietly trying to put his family back together in order to reclaim his pride.