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...remains to be seen whether Wilkerson’s narrative will end where former Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick??€™s hubris-fueled collapse did: in the penitentiary. Last month, Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to eight felony charges of obstruction of justice after his lackadaisical attempt to snuff out rumors of the extramarital affair he was carrying on over thousands of SMS messages with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick??€™s cover-up looked like something out of the Huey Long playbook: intimidating and firing police officers, lying under oath and all the while using his privileged position...
...Kilpatrick??€™s self-obsessed indignation shouldn’t be surprising: Political leaders who have slipped so far from an ethic of responsibility to their cause and constituents can rarely reclaim the veneer that once made them seem so admirable...
...relics today, but e-mail and instant messaging scandals have been shaking up the White House and Congress for years, and there could be no Spitzer downfall without mobile phone recordings or online banking records. Just last month, another new medium won legitimacy as evidence of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick??€™s alleged affair with his Chief of Staff was exposed via text messages...
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