Hearing could oust Detroit mayor
DETROIT (AP) — Mired in criminal charges for months, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick now finds his political future strapped to a little-used provision in the Michigan Constitution that allows a governor to evict an elected official for misconduct.
A fellow Democrat, Gov. Jennifer Granholm, confirmed Tuesday what had been in the works for much of the summer: A hearing will begin Sept. 3 to determine if Kilpatrick was seeking private gain when he endorsed an $8.4 million settlement with three fired police officers.
That deal carried confidentiality provisions to keep a lid on text messages that would reveal a red-hot affair between the married mayor and his chief of staff — a relationship they had denied during testimony in a whistle-blowers’ trial last year.
It will be the first time since 1982 that a Michigan governor has considered the removal of an elected official.
Relations strained between mayor, guv
DETROIT (AP) — Jennifer Granholm and Kwame Kilpatrick come from the same powerful Democratic political machine, both students of the late Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara.
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