Now at 71% they're basically tied (0.00 / 0)

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by: illissius @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 04:05:40 AM UTC

exciting (0.00 / 0)

Kilpatrick is 200 votes up now.  

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by: Sayhar @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 04:07:29 AM UTC

this is.... (0.00 / 0)

really interesting, on multiple levels....

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by: jakedecker @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 04:11:48 AM UTC

The name Kilpatrick is poison (4.00 / 1)

right now in Detroit (or Michigan for that matter).

I wish Kwame Kilpatrick would resign already. He's guilty as all hell and corrupt as they get. It's been obvious since before this affair stuff came to light. He's barely even a Democrat. Plus I think (some) whites will equate his corruption with Obama. So he's hurting everyone around him.

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by: recusancy @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 05:32:28 AM UTC

When's he up for reelection? (0.00 / 0)

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by: mcc @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 05:57:22 AM UTC

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ding ding ding! (0.00 / 0)

disclaimer: a cousin of mine was Mayor of Detroit, and i'm deep in family MI politics (supreme court judges, gov's appointees, etc), so i'm not wholly objective.

anyway...things are so corrupt here. all my time up at the State House just reinforced what i already knew. there are faces and puppets that are out in front, and for a reason. KK is one of them. he's nothing in the sense of 'who is making the calls' and actually affecting things like where the money goes and who is calling the shots. for f*ck's sake, he's an ex-football player. i suppose it's too provincial to speak of the mob, and it's influence on MI and detroit politics. but, if you care about who and what and when around here, that's where you'll start. the behind the scenes players make all the decisions in these here parts, and progressives are better off understanding: there's no corruption like local corruption. at least here in MI, it's long been the case that that label has been usefully applied to both "black" and "white."

anyway, the only reason any of this matters: MI is "in play" in the general national, and KK is a what? motif? model? ...it's late and i'm tired, but what i'm trying to say is that a) everyone in this state knows that D pols and politics are all about graft and corruption and ii) the reason is should matter to Matt and his ilk has to do with Obama, and the way in which KK will be uplifted by the national SCLM as an example of "what happens when you let a Black man be the Executive." it's crafted, yo, and for a purpose that goes and works well beyond the state of MI.

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by: chicago dyke @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 06:13:59 AM UTC

oops, clarification (0.00 / 0)

as we can't 'edit' here on OL. in my previous post "D" means "detroit," as in "The D." not, "d" as in "democrat. sorry if that was confusing.

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by: chicago dyke @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 06:25:12 AM UTC

You can edit the article though, so Matt, can we make (0.00 / 0)

it is the second major primary challenge in which a CBC member loses in a primary, the first being Donna Edwards.

Read like this?

it is the second major primary challenge in which a CBC member loses in a primary, the first being Al Wynn, who lost to Donna Edwards.

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by: HousesofProgress @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 11:32:20 AM UTC

It might help to specify the office in question (0.00 / 0)

I had to google Carolyn Kirkpatrick to realize that this is a congressional primary.

For all I know of Detroit and Michigan politics, this might have been a primary for Lt. Gov, Atty. Gen., or Detroit Dog Catcher.

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by: tietack @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 13:38:16 PM UTC

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KK is the biggest crook to hit Detroit and that (0.00 / 0)

includes Coleman Young.  I hope his mother goes down so at least a modicum of karma exists somewhere.  Kwame should have resigned.  The City Council can't make him, and the Gov. won't touch this with a 10 foot pole or poll as the case may be.

If Kwame had resigned, his mom would have been fine - not that she should have been.  As a resident of Detroit's suburbia, I don't get to vote on any of this.   Detroit is in a mess because its politicians are too corrupt to care about revitalizing our city.  This is too bad.  SE MI needs a vibrant Detroit.  

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by: dkmich @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 13:26:54 PM UTC

Kilpatrick Won ----- by 1500 votes (4.00 / 1)

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by: HousesofProgress @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 13:31:43 PM UTC

On community voices (0.00 / 0)

Carolyn Kilpatrick was a leader on low power FM radio -- she wrote a letter with Hilda Solis to the CHC and CBC on the importance of expanding community radio opportunities to big cities -- especially cities that suffer under media consolidation.  In cities like Boston, the only black-owned radio station it Touch FM -- an unlicensed broadcaster that started up in response to the last black-owned commercial station in the city being bought out by Entercomm:

http://www.boston.com/news/loc...

She's fighting to pass HR 2802, which would recognize solid FCC proof that there's plenty of room for community radio in big cities -- despite the whining of NPR and the National Association of Broadcasters.  She and a number of CBC and CHC members have stood up to big broadcasters in an election year by cosponsoring this bill -- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/... .

Learn more about Kilpatrick's support for community media at http://www.prometheusradio.org.

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by: Hannah_Sassaman @ Wed Aug 06, 2008 at 14:00:55 PM UTC