A Wayne County judge has decided to unseal some of the documents that will tell if lawyers for the city of Detroit and Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick had a secret agreement during the whistleblower trial to prevent text messages from surfacing.
Then, less than an hour later, the mayor's lawyer announced that she would appeal the decision, even after the judge urged the mayor's team not to.
This is getting to be more and more like a soap opera.
The only reason for trying to keep those documents secret is that releasing them would prove conclusively that Kwame Kilpatrick is a lying, corrupt politician:
- He (and his Chief of Staff) knowing, willfully lied under oath about their affair, exposing them to perjury charges, and/or
- He worked out this secret settlement to save his job, and/or
- There are other scandals reflected in the documents that could cause even more trouble (like, perhaps, confirmation of the stripper party at the mayor's mansion and/or his involvement in the stripper's murder)
Is there a politician anywhere who can keep his/her pants up and his/her hand out of the public cookie jar?!?
What is it with these morons? Republican, Democrat, independent, it doesn't seem to matter: as soon as someone achieves elective office, politicians immediately start pulling various fast ones.
About the only cure I can see is mandatory castration of politicians.
