The Detroit Free Press keeps hammering away:
Kwame Kilpatrick took office as Detroit’s 59th mayor with all the promise of a bold young leader, brimming with energy and ideas. He faltered, recovered and appeared to be growing into leadership. Now, however, the real Kwame Kilpatrick stands exposed by scandal — dishonest, selfish and greedy, a crippled leader clinging to an office he can no longer claim to deserve. These are among the episodes that have peeled away the Kilpatrick façade.
What he did
“My wife and I worked our way through these intensely personal issues years ago.” This was part of a Kilpatrick statement in response to the Jan. 24 Free Press story revealing the text messages about his affair.What it shows
Maybe he meant days instead of years. Turns out that the very week the Free Press exposed the text messages, Kilpatrick was in Asheville, N.C., with a still unidentified woman — neither his wife nor Beatty — getting expensive massages together in a couples suite at a fancy hotel. This was during a trip the mayor took to deliver a Martin Luther King Day speech. The lie made the Asheville tryst more distasteful.