Former Detroit Mayer Kwame Kilpatrick was released from jail within the last few weeks and his former Chief of Staff is to be released from jail on Monday, following convictions of perjury and witness tampering.
So someone in the Detroit Clerk's office decided now would be a good time to release 6,000 more text messages; some are sexually explicit.
The cover story is that the text messages were released to determine if Kilpatrick did anything else. That smells of a witch-hunt. Why release the text messages publicly, instead of turning them over to the prosecutor's office? And why now, and not before the trial took place?
Or are they planning on keeping this man and his sordid affairs front and center for the news media to sell more papers?
Kilpatrick has since filed a $100 million retaliatory lawsuit against the cell phone carrier who released the messages originally. But I don't think it's going to go anywhere, since the monthly bill was paid by the taxpayers of Detroit and therefore falls under the auspices of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). That part of the story will be interesting to watch.
As far as everything else goes, it looks and sounds like someone taking revenge against Kilpatrick, who got what he had coming to him.
Either charge him, or get off his case.
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