April 14, 2009, - 5:40 pm
Hmmm . . . Michigan Republican Party, Atty Gen Cox Campaign Infected w/Kwame Kilpatrick Leftovers
By Debbie Schlussel
You know what I find comical? When Republicans tried to use the scandalous, sleazy saga of Deposed Detroit Mayor Kwame “The Kingpin” Kilpatrick against the Democrats.
That’s because there are so many Republican officials and donors who are part of the Kwame machine and worked with him in some capacity. Some still do.
Take Michigan Republican Attorney General and BFF [Best Friend Forever] to extremist Muslims, Mike Cox. He just announced his “advisory team.” If Cox wanted to distance himself from Kilpatrick, after a shoddy, speedy investigation clearing the Mayor from an alleged party at the Manoogian Mansion and subsequent murder of two strippers who allegedly performed there, he didn’t make the right choices. (And that’s not to mention how Cox impeded the Michigan State Police from its own investigation, every step of the way.)
Cox appointed major Republican donor Peter Karmanos, Chairman and CEO of Compuware, to his advisory committee. In case you forgot, Karmanos is the scumbag who hired a fresh-out-of-jail Kilpatrick on the same day that he laid off 250-300 workers who weren’t convicted felons. Then, Karmanos–who remained a Kwame cheerleader, even when the most militant of Black activists in Detroit finally called for the then-Mayor to go–had the nerve to say that no-one else was qualified to do the job, a healthcare sales position (Kilpatrick has experience neither in healthcare nor sales).
That’s not to mention the fact that Cox is trying to play down his serial adultery, including a press conference in which he trotted out his crying wife. Rumors have been rampant for years that a videotape is circulating of Cox having sex with a Wayne County Court employee in an empty courtroom, when he was a county assistant prosecutor. To have Karmanos–a man who is famously on Wife #3, a woman 30 years younger than him who is pregnant with twins that will be younger than Karmanos’ granchildren, when they are born–as an advisor, only highlights the cheating, adultery-ridden lifestyle of Kilpatrick, Karmanos . . . and Cox.
Karmanos was famous for admitting in court that he brought pre-Viagra sex stimulants to work and showed them to his female employees. This came out as Karmanos was fighting one of several sexual harassment cases in court, this time against his Vice President of Human Resources. His key defense was that she didn’t report his harassment to herself and/or to her superior, him.
Then, there is the suburban Detroit Oakland County Republican Committee Executive Director, Lynn Aronoff. She was Kwame Kilpatrick’s fundraiser for his Mayoral campaign. Hilarious that someone with such sleazy connections is now running the Republican committee of one of the three most populated counties in Michigan. And Kilpatrick fundraiser Aronoff and her multi-millionaire parents are major donors to Cox, giving his campaign and his “5200 Club” PAC tens of thousands, despite the fact that Cox has a history of pandering to Muslim groups which openly support Hezbollah and HAMAS, accepting contributions from them, and enabling pregnant Muslim aliens to continue to travel here to defraud Medicaid and get U.S. citizenship for their anchor-baby future terrorist kids. (They also gave thousands to the campaign of deposed pan-Islamist Congressman Joe Knollenberg a/k/a Hezbollah Joe‘s campaign too, despite pretending they were against the near-$100 million in our tax money the he gave to Hezbollah.)
Her father, Arnold, did time in federal prison for defrauding people into buying swampland in Florida. Uncle Ed Levy, Jr. (also a Cox donor) got no jailtime, reportedly because he turned state’s evidence against his brother-in-law and then-partner in crime.
Hmmm . . . a Michigan Attorney General who pretends he’s all “law and order” having these kinds of people as donors?
And it all comes back to Kwame Kilpatrick.
Yup, you know the Michigan Republican Party is in trouble when so many roads lead back to disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
If I were Mike Cox’s leading Republican challenger for governor, conservative Republican Congressman Pete Hoekstra (whom I am happily supporting and endorsing), Cox’s connections to the Kilpatrick crowd would be my major ad during primary season in the summer of 2010. I would show Cox’s photo followed by statements Cox made, claiming the Manoogian Mansion party with Kilpatrick and strippers was an “urban legend” and statements about his formerly Kwame-employed donor Lynn Aronoff and his Kwame-employing advisor Pete Karmanos.
The Kilpatrick issue is what’s hurting Cox in recent polls that show him behind Hoekstra. And I would hammer that like there was no tomorrow.
Mike Cox is a pig. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he really was at the Manoogian party.
As for Karmanos, he’s a pig too. Good luck to his current trophy wife when the wrinkles start to appear.
Ewww, this whole subject puts me off my Easter candy.
Have a happy Passover, Debbie!
mplumb on April 14, 2009 at 7:40 pm