Ja1mz Member Username: Ja1mz
Post Number: 153 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 6:39 am: | |
http://www.dallasnews.com/shar edcontent/dws/news/localnews/s tories/022209dnmetsouthlake.45 e0a68.html |
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222
Post Number: 174 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:07 am: | |
Wow the comments are piling up on the Dallas website already...A lot of Detroiters have found this article!! |
Rjk Member Username: Rjk
Post Number: 1203 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:10 am: | |
"...Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, cheated on her and lied about it under oath." Talk about a sanitized version of what really happened. "I couldn't imagine picking up and leaving any time soon," she said." Hopefully the feds can throw a wrench into her plans. |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9051 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:57 am: | |
Although...she cannot understand why her little big-heads haven't been invited to join the local little league.
quote:"I'm ready to start anew," Carlita Kilpatrick told The Dallas Morning News in her first extensive interview since moving to Texas. .. ..."and when y'all do the mother's-against-son's game, can I bat cleanup? I've got this motherfucker of a swing. What are y'all lookin' at?!" |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1517 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 9:46 am: | |
It looks as if the paper's pulled to comments section. I wrote a comment, posted it, then read it. Went to read other comments, but they seem to have disappeared. Perhaps we should find some of the Dallas chat rooms and make some friends... |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1519 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:13 am: | |
Cool! The comments section is up. |
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit
Post Number: 1975 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:26 am: | |
Neat, I guess crime does pay, afterall. |
Chrissy_snow Member Username: Chrissy_snow
Post Number: 474 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:58 am: | |
I love how she says that the "critics (of KK's new job) don't have his or her best interests at heart". As if THEIR interests should be more important than the 250 employees who were conveniently let go as he came on board. Again with the sense of overwhelming entitlement. She's learned well from her hubby. |
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222
Post Number: 178 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 12:19 pm: | |
The comment section is up to 160. It appears to be working, but they have partially hidden it where they are not encouraging comments. Click on comments then it will show up. Earlier in the day, it showed the number of comments and encouraged people to leave one......Some of them have not been well moderated, one that is still up talks about Carlita blowing her neighbor, lol...... |
Detroitchef Member Username: Detroitchef
Post Number: 117 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 12:19 pm: | |
Ahhh hubris, thy name is Kilpatrick. |
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 1547 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 12:51 pm: | |
Is anyone else pissed at the way they were allowed to f--- up Detroit, and jump ship to a more prosperous city? |
Eastsidechris Member Username: Eastsidechris
Post Number: 319 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 1:05 pm: | |
That piece was as light-weight as cotton candy. If it wasn't from the Dallas Morning News, I would have thought it was from the Michigan Chronicle and the writer was Frankie Darcell. |
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement
Post Number: 705 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 1:34 pm: | |
quote:Originally posted by Tetsua: Is anyone else pissed at the way they were allowed to f--- up Detroit, and jump ship to a more prosperous city? I'm happy as a pig in mud that Kwame decided to move his family to Dallas - an upscale suburb of Dallas at that. Maybe people that defended him and thought he had Detroit's best interest at heart will realize all he was doing for six years was pimping Detroit. Maybe in the future they will select representatives with more scrutiny and be less forgiving when these assholes screw up. |
Softailrider Member Username: Softailrider
Post Number: 281 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 5:43 pm: | |
Seems to be a helluva lot of residents who still don't realize or care that he was "pimping" Detroit, judging from the last poll, the number of people who would still support / re-elect him is astounding. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 4011 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 6:50 pm: | |
quote:I do not know how this happened but disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is moving right down the street from us to Southlake...WTF? We got out of Michigan just as he was screwing up Detroit, and now he comes down here? Lovely. That guy is a fucken douchebag. But I will tell you one thing, Strawberry the stripper died BEFORE the Detroiters elected him into his second term...Everyone voter north of 8 mile stood in shock when the news announced his victory for the second time. Of course he was doing blow, having wild parties, and doing his assistant..the voters basically told him it was ok! If you are going to elect an ignorant, gang bangin, coked out, gangster to run your city, then I guess you get what you had coming to you when he embezzles money, and kills a hooker in the mayors mansion...right? http://thedoggydidit.blogspot. com/ |
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement
Post Number: 706 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 7:09 pm: | |
quote:Originally posted by Softailrider: Seems to be a helluva lot of residents who still don't realize or care that he was "pimping" Detroit, judging from the last poll, the number of people who would still support / re-elect him is astounding. And just what are those numbers? Do you have a link? |
Daddeeo Member Username: Daddeeo
Post Number: 474 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:17 pm: | |
Those upscale Texans must really wonder, "There goes the neighborhood." |
Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 524 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:43 pm: | |
"69 percent of voters say they would absolutely not vote for him when he's eligible, according to a Detroit News/WXYZ Action News poll" http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.d ll/article?AID=/20090219/METRO 01/902190420 Doesn't sound like a lot of support to me. |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1520 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 8:57 pm: | |
What is this 'Kwame doesn't have to pay restitution if he moves to Texas' crap I keep hearing about? Something about Texas law? It sounds like bullshit to me. Anyone else heard about this? Sounds like the 'Kwame needs to stay in office until November in order to be vested' rumor. |
Lmichigan Member Username: Lmichigan
Post Number: 4167 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 10:49 pm: | |
If I'd have been her, I'd have had a bit of respect and not talked about this, for years. This is some kind of hubris, to insult Detroiters by essentially telling them that they are history, to her, and that she can sleep comfortably at night. I saw something in the News where she said something to the effect of how her neighbors and adopted community don't seem to care about "whatever happened". Yeah, that's right up there with "mistakes were made." Carlita may be a woman, but a lady she is not. |
Ray Member Username: Ray
Post Number: 578 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 11:10 pm: | |
I try not to be bitter. I gave $500 to Freeman Hendrix in the last mayoral race, although I dared not mentioned that on this forum at the time. It was just so pitiful that the city re-elected KK. All those well meaning KK supporters, so sure of their man. Remember? Freeman was the stooge of the suburanites. What morons. I can't be too judgmental, though. I voted for Bush, who makes KK look like the greatest leader in the history of the world. |
Detroitchef Member Username: Detroitchef
Post Number: 119 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 7:51 am: | |
Who did you vote for in both elections, the first time around Ray? |
Janesback Member Username: Janesback
Post Number: 517 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 8:23 am: | |
Dallas for some reason is palying host to losers in politics KK is there, the mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin has bought a house, and the biggest loser, George Bush is living north of the city.... I guess this really applies to Dallas when people say "there goes the neighborhood" Jane |
Chrissy_snow Member Username: Chrissy_snow
Post Number: 476 Registered: 07-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:16 am: | |
Great point, LMichigan, it was very UNclassy to give this interview, right now, or even ever, but especially right now. It's like she just needed to spit back in the face of Detroiters to let them know that she didn't care and she still won. I wouldn't doubt that she arranged the interview herself. Her and Kwame still feel they did nothing wrong and that people are just jealous of them and want to keep the black man down. I shudder to think of what kind of kids they are raising to unleash on the world in a few years. Let's just pray they don't go into politics. |
Goat Member Username: Goat
Post Number: 2796 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:20 am: | |
Everyone talks about KK and his perjury on the stand. They talk about his affair with another woman. O.k. as a politician that stinks. But what no one has really talked about was the $9 milion the SOB cost Detroit because of his lies and coniving ways. Why don't you real Detroiters talk about that? That is where the REAL crime occured. |
Bobby08 Member Username: Bobby08
Post Number: 134 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:29 am: | |
+1 Goat The 1 million he was forced to pay as restitution was considered a "drop in the bucket" in my opinion, he should have been ordered to pay ATLEAST half of the 9 million. |
Downtown_lady Member Username: Downtown_lady
Post Number: 573 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:45 am: | |
quote:what no one has really talked about was the $9 milion the SOB cost Detroit because of his lies and coniving ways. Why don't you real Detroiters talk about that? Maybe you haven't read every thread but that $9 million has been mentioned at least 9 million times here. "No one has really talked about it" could not possibly be more inaccurate. |
Sstashmoo Member Username: Sstashmoo
Post Number: 3365 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:28 am: | |
They moved to Texas for a loophole in the law? There is some bitter irony. Wait until they tangle with Texas law. When it comes to mercy or understanding, that is the f*cking stone age down there. |
Stosh Member Username: Stosh
Post Number: 46 Registered: 01-2009
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 11:44 am: | |
Currently, the Texas Constitution only permits garnishment for child support. From the Crime Victim's Institute:
quote:Although the rate of restitution collection for victims of crime is low, Texas law does include some provisions designed to promote payment by the defendant. First, the court is required to set a specific time period for a defendant to complete payment. The time frame cannot exceed the time period of probation (if applicable), nor can the time period end more than five years after the end of a prison term.33 This provides a deadline for the defendant to fulfill the restitution obligation. Also, if the court or parole panel places a defendant on probation or parole, restitution is a required condition of the terms of probation or parole. Thus, the court has the ability to revoke probation, and the parole panel has the ability to revoke parole when restitution is not paid. When determining whether or not to revoke probation or parole, the court must consider several factors including: defendant’s employment, future earning capabilities, financial resources, and willingness to pay.34 The law allows the courts to obtain information about the defendant from a community supervision and corrections department in order to make a decision. Texas law also gives crime victims a restitution lien in order to ensure restitution is paid by the offender. This means that victims have legal access to offenders’ assets. Also regarding liens, the victim has priority over any lien the state has over an offender’s property. http://www.crimevictimsinstitu te.org/documents/Restitution%2 0Report.pdf |
Jacqueline Member Username: Jacqueline
Post Number: 44 Registered: 08-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 5:02 pm: | |
Is Covisant's home office in Texas? If the company's home office is in another state, could that state garnish his pay check if he is not paying restitution to MI or does one's place of residence determine if one's pay check can be garnished? |
Hw1975 Member Username: Hw1975
Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 8:57 pm: | |
So, Carlita thinks no one in Dallas is interested in what happened to the Kilpatrick's in Detroit...then why does she think the newspaper was interviewing her? Does she think they interview every new resident? |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 5339 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:08 pm: | |
Tomorrow afternoon is KK's hearing about whether he gets to move or not. Worthy is opposing the move and is also going to ask for the $3,000 per month he's allegedly paying for the house in Texas. clickondetroit.com is going to livestream his hearing - scheduled for 2 p.m. |
Ocean2026 Member Username: Ocean2026
Post Number: 133 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Monday, February 23, 2009 - 9:13 pm: | |
I don't know which is worse having Kwame or Bush in DFW. Luckily I live in South Texas near Corpus and hopefully I won't have to look at either of them. |