DETROIT NATIVE SUN
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ENLIGHTENING THE COMMUNITY
OCTOBER 2008
Kilpatrick: Alive and Well
By Willie Ross, Jr.
SUN COLUMNIST
I know you didn’t think it was going to be that easy to defeat “Y’all’s Boy’s” momma.
Did you? After all, the competitor’s (as she told us), couldn’t carry her bra. You know
better than to go to bed with a Kilpatrick behind in an election. Congresswoman Carolyn
Cheeks Kilpatrick knew there wasn’t a snowman’s chance in Hawaii that she would lose
in the City of Detroit. She knows that Detroiters like it grimy - if it ain’t grimy, it ain’t
right.
She knew that Detroiters had her back, the ones with the least gained by her re-
election. She claims to have brought in half a billion federal dollars to the state. That’s a
lot of money.
Where did it go? Let’s see.
It didn’t go to cure neighborhood blight, and it didn’t go for education or after-school
programs. Maybe the money was used to stop insurance redlining in the City of Detroit.
That’s funny. You think you’d be able to see a little of the money.
Twenty percent of registered voters in the City of Detroit came out to voice their
opinion how they felt, only 20 percent. What’s the purpose of getting registered, if you
are not going to come out and vote? Once again the few spoke for the masses. Kilpatrick
has nothing to hang her hat on. Sixty-one percent of voters did not want her to be re-
elected. Mary Waters, in a gallant effort, lost 38 percent to 36 percent. Martha Scott
played the spoiler role and garnered 25 percent of the vote.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick can thank Martha Scott for swinging in a gigantic monkey
wrench.
Just think about it. Without Martha Scott in the race, we would have had a new
congresswoman and Cheeks Kilpatrick would be running for the next name recognition
spot on the Detroit City Council. Speaking of City Council, most of them would be very
afraid of being replaced. So, if you have a famous name, you may want to throw your hat
into the ring.
Most people, who wanted Kilpatrick out, wanted her out because of the bad taste her
son has left people with. Her ferocious “Y’all’s Boy” speech gave people another reason
to want her out of office. Sixty-one percent of voters wanted Kilpatrick unseated, but
there was no united front on which candidate they wanted to replace her. To most, a
vote for anyone other than Kilpatrick was a victory. This could possibly be Carolyn
Cheeks Kilpatrick’s last term as a congresswoman.
But, one thing you must always remember when voting is that you can never count a
Kilpatrick out.
By Willie Ross, Jr.
SUN COLUMNIST
I know you didn’t think it was going to be that easy to defeat “Y’all’s Boy’s” momma.
Did you? After all, the competitor’s (as she told us), couldn’t carry her bra. You know
better than to go to bed with a Kilpatrick behind in an election. Congresswoman Carolyn
Cheeks Kilpatrick knew there wasn’t a snowman’s chance in Hawaii that she would lose
in the City of Detroit. She knows that Detroiters like it grimy - if it ain’t grimy, it ain’t
right.
She knew that Detroiters had her back, the ones with the least gained by her re-
election. She claims to have brought in half a billion federal dollars to the state. That’s a
lot of money.
Where did it go? Let’s see.
It didn’t go to cure neighborhood blight, and it didn’t go for education or after-school
programs. Maybe the money was used to stop insurance redlining in the City of Detroit.
That’s funny. You think you’d be able to see a little of the money.
Twenty percent of registered voters in the City of Detroit came out to voice their
opinion how they felt, only 20 percent. What’s the purpose of getting registered, if you
are not going to come out and vote? Once again the few spoke for the masses. Kilpatrick
has nothing to hang her hat on. Sixty-one percent of voters did not want her to be re-
elected. Mary Waters, in a gallant effort, lost 38 percent to 36 percent. Martha Scott
played the spoiler role and garnered 25 percent of the vote.
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick can thank Martha Scott for swinging in a gigantic monkey
wrench.
Just think about it. Without Martha Scott in the race, we would have had a new
congresswoman and Cheeks Kilpatrick would be running for the next name recognition
spot on the Detroit City Council. Speaking of City Council, most of them would be very
afraid of being replaced. So, if you have a famous name, you may want to throw your hat
into the ring.
Most people, who wanted Kilpatrick out, wanted her out because of the bad taste her
son has left people with. Her ferocious “Y’all’s Boy” speech gave people another reason
to want her out of office. Sixty-one percent of voters wanted Kilpatrick unseated, but
there was no united front on which candidate they wanted to replace her. To most, a
vote for anyone other than Kilpatrick was a victory. This could possibly be Carolyn
Cheeks Kilpatrick’s last term as a congresswoman.
But, one thing you must always remember when voting is that you can never count a
Kilpatrick out.