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11/09/2005 Archived Entry: "Again?"

Again?
Imagine my surprise.

Hard to imagine. After all his crap, his stealing, his high life, his lack of organization, his bad politics, his sense of behavior second only to the Bush administration during Katrina, the prime minister of cool is back. 53% over 47%, The Free Press reports. Just amazing. Is this what you want, Detroit?

Detroit is facing a projected deficit of $200 million in its $1.4-billion general fund budget, and Kilpatrick has delayed making deep cuts or layoffs until after the election. Unless Kilpatrick can perform a financial miracle in the next eight weeks, he may find paying city workers and vendors and warding off state oversight of city finances his next great challenge.

Which means many of those who voted for Kwame back will lose their jobs. Politics is the great logic-breaker. Next to advertising, politics defies all logic and/or rationale. It feeds on all kinds of emotions, vanities, fears, and complacency. Those who stand the most to lose when voting for Bush (those whose jobs are outsourced and whose kids will be shipped to Iraq) return him to power. Those who work for the city, who watch their schools close one after the other, who have few places to shop, who pay outrageous taxes for little service (while the mayor lives it up at P-Diddy's club in Atlanta) put the mayor back in power. Have another credit card, Kwame. Four more years to party! Fight for your right.

Update:
NPR now says that thousands of votes might be challenged because they were cast by people with dementia who voted for Kwame, yet can't name who was even running.

Posted by Ray @ 11/10/2005 12:24 AM EST

Holy geez. I woke up to hear the news on NPR. Yowza.

Posted by jenny @ 11/09/2005 08:41 AM EST