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Detroit now can call him ex-mayor Kilpatrick. Just a while ago he pleaded guilty to two felony charges.
He also plead no contest to the assault charge of pushing a process server.

Funny thing too which really rubs salt in the wounds of Detroit is that he gave salary raises to most of his close appointed officials, which include the police chief.
The chief of police then announced her retirement during the ex-mayor’s plea hearing. Those pay raises now give them more money for their pension calculations.

The city is so financially strapped and he gives away money like that?

The city just took a big hit today with all of these dominos going down.

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I found these pictures of Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick kind of funny. Currently he’s embroiled in a text messaging scandal with one of his female staff.

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City of Detroit Kym Worthy just annouced that the city has brought a total of 12 charges against the Mayor and his “sideline whore” Christine Beatty.

As I listen to this announcement live on TV, I feel bad that Ms. Worthy’s speech sounds like it was written by a college student and read like a college freshman. This announcement is going out live to all the major news networks but heck, she’s all we’ve got. I hope she gets some type of conviction in this whole thing.

Look at Elliot Spitzer, the governer of New York who was caught with his pants down. He gracefully resigned, as did Christine Beatty when this whole story broke.

Based on the behavior of the mayor in this whole scandal, he’s just going to tell the city to “Fuck off” and go on doing what he always does. At least Coleman Young kept a lot of his shenanigans low profile and never got this far.

The funny thing about this city is that the people that live here will say he should stay in office… he’s allowed to make mistakes… he’s done a good job… , there’s no logic to any of these statements. The people in the city of Detroit are so beat down by the economy and the state of the city that they just don’t want to speak up and put this guy out of office.

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Chrysler announced they will be closing their twenty person design studio in California.
The article states that “we are leveraging resources worldwide”.

Now think about this…
Bob Nardelli is running the company. He was at GE but most recently he was CEO of Home Depot.
I guess his thinking is that at Home Depot we stocked the shelves with items at the lowest price we could get them and customers would come in a buy what they needed. HD would then make a tidy profit.

I can see it where all Chrysler vehicles are going to be supplied and built by the cheapest material and labor force, put “on the shelf” and customers come in and buy them. Gradually all the design activity will be done by these suppliers. There may be a skeleton group of Chrysler employees that oversee the purchasing and maybe the quality but really Chrysler will just become another storefront, reselling goods designed and built by others. Kind of like toilets, faucets, lumber, nuts & bolts. Home Depot itself never designed or manufactured anything.

Read the article in Motor Authority

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All week long it’s been rumors and stories as to what is going to happen at work with Cerberus picking us up.  There was a town hall today for our platform group to answer any questions and tell us what’s going on.  At least the Pentastar logo is coming back, I can use all my old stationary and notepads!