Asheville loves Kwame, and Kwame loves another woman

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Asheville showed the love for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick last weekend during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast. More than 1,000 WNC residents attended and gave Kilpatrick a standing ovation before he even spoke. Kilpatrick spoke in Asheville at the personal invitation of our own mayor, Terry Bellamy.

But I wondered aloud why this town as celebrating a man named one of the worst mayors in the U.S. just two years ago. Kilpatrick’s political tenure has been plagued by allegations of misuse of taxpayer money, stripper parties and retaliatory firings of two police officers.

Then I see this tidbit over at Huffington Post:

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic – and often salacious – text messages with a top aide, contradicting earlier denials made under oath court that they had romantic ties.