Kwame Kilpatrick
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Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Malik Kilpatrickis a former Michigan state representative and Democratic mayor of Detroit. He resigned as mayor after being convicted on felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice. Kilpatrick was sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty, and was released on probation after serving 99 days. On May 25, 2010, he was sentenced to 18 months to 5 years in state prison for violating his probation, and served time at the Oaks Correctional Facility in northwest Michigan...
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We're giving Jerome a key to the city. Jimmy Kimmel wanted one, but we said no.
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suburban guys coming into our community trying to raise up the concerns of people when this administration is going to the wall on this issue of disabled riders.
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Detroit's been the butt of a lot of jokes for 50 years. We want to introduce the world to the new Detroit.
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You're the one who was just voted the third-worst mayor for Time magazine, not Hendrix,
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In Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills and all these places, they do more meth, they do more Ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city of Detroit put together,
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In Birmingham, in Bloomfield Hills and all these places they do more meth, they do more ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city of Detroit put together.
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This is crunch time. I love it. I love it. I love it.
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The largest part of this gap is structural costs, ... Delphi, Northwest (Airlines), we are in the same position as all of them are.
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When I spoke to the people from the state Bureau of Elections, they were not sure what security would be available, ... Needless to say, all the parties in this matter have an interest in the security of the ballots.
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I was building the plane while flying it in the first term,
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My dream in growing up in the city of Detroit was to be Mayor. At the family picnics from the time I was 9-years-old that's what I told people I was going to be. The mayor of the city of Detroit.
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I loved the city, so the feeling in 2001 [election] first was shock, then (I was) nervous, then scared but then it's - I really wasn't happy and ecstatic like I thought I (would be). I was immediately hit with the enormity of the responsibility and the fact that most people in that town - particularly those that voted for me were placing their hopes and dreams in me. That is a big, big stressful place to be.