…but really…is the scandal the fact that our public servants took kickbacks…or what they chose to take as kickbacks?
….the report alleges that eight royalty-program officials accepted gifts from energy companies …. including …paintball outings…tickets to a Toby Keith concert, a Houston Texans football game and a Colorado Rockies baseball game.
Eureka! There IS more than failed mortgage payments and fugitive financiers to speak of when Detroit comes to mind!
DETROIT — Kwame M. Kilpatrick, the charismatic mayor of Detroit who has been embroiled in legal problems stemming from a sex scandal since the beginning of the year, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned his office Thursday morning as part of a deal with prosecutors.
He agreed to plead guilty to two felony counts of obstruction of justice and to plead no contest to a felony count of assault on a police officer; to pay restitution to the city of $1 million; to surrender his law license, forfeit his state pension to the city and be barred from elective office for five years; and to serve 120 days in the Wayne County jail, followed by five years’ probation….
….Later, referring to his guilty plea, he said, “I lied under oath.”
In ascending order of gravity:
1) Let the legacy of my very own hometown of Farmington Hills, MI be more than Bill & Sue Nebe’s struggles to make their mortgage payments per John McCain’s speech tonite. Viva Farmington Hills!
2) Let Roberta McCain’s gene pool live on in John! All 96 years of her actually bolted out of her chair on cue tonite (and I couldn’t see an audio aid could you?); and
3) Let the character demonstrated by McCain so many years ago – truly the Hemingway protagonist ‘grace under pressure’ definition of character in line with Gretchen’s definition in the post immediately below – prove true …..should he need to have it…..