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Detroit Mayor Charged in Sex Affair

Kwame Kilpatrick, the mayor of Detroit, and his mistress former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty have been charged this morning with a combined 12 counts of felony perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy. They both have until 7 a.m. tomorrow to turn themselves in or they will be sought and arrested by the Wayne County Sheriff. In addition, the Wayne County prosecutor insinuated that an investigation in ongoing into other city officials, possibly to include the chief of the Detroit Police Department.

It just hit the Drudge Report, which means you can look for this news to go national today.

Kilpatrick is scheduled to hold a press conference at noon eastern, where he will respond to these charges. It is expected that he will reiterate that he has no intention to resign.

Since I left my home in the Detroit area and moved to Florida a decade ago, there have been numerous occasions when I’ve been embarrassed of my new home state (the 2000 election debacle comes to mind) and downright disgusted with its citizenry. But on this day, I am nothing but thankful that I left Detroit behind. What a joke.