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Post Number: 9
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 7:23 pm: |    |
As the Mackinac Policy Conference Big Five session began at 3 p.m., Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson seemingly was AWOL for the event, hosted by Paul W. Smith and broadcast live on WJR-AM (760).
Smith began the program by declaring he was embarrassed that Patterson was "nowhere to be found." Just then, Patterson emerged into the room, walking toward the stage on a mission -- clad in a Hawaiian shirt and leis.
Patterson's destination? He came straight for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, draping leis around the mayor's neck as Smith told his radio audience "Brooks is leiing the mayor."
It was a reference to a WXYZ-TV report that revealed the Mayor and his wife had booked a suite in Maui at the same time Kilpatrick was supposed to be attending a pension conference on a completely different island. Kilpatrick later decided to skip the conference.
The gesture by Patterson poked fun at the often rocky relationship between he and Kilpatrick. However, Patterson stopped short of kissing and making up with the Detroit mayor. |
Smogboy
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Post Number: 5315
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 11:33 pm: | |
And this was supposed to sway someone's opinion? Inform somebody? What's LBP thinking? Was it supposed to be funny or did I miss the humor in this? |
Mg2007
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Post Number: 20
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 11:37 pm: | |
haha LBP really made kwame look dumb, i thought it was hilarious |
Livernoisyard
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Post Number: 3257
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 11:48 pm: | |
quote:And this was supposed to sway someone's opinion? Inform somebody? What's LBP thinking? Was it supposed to be funny or did I miss the humor in this? SB, why do radiclibs get pissed and nonplussed whenever they're the butts of any humor? They don't seem to mind dishing out theirs, especially their ad hominem variety. |
Jt1
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Post Number: 9265
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 11:55 pm: | |
Kwame should send LBP a couple bottles of wine and give him some car keys. |
Mackinaw
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Post Number: 2848
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 - 11:58 pm: | |
Wine coolers, you mean. Or perhaps a Zima? |
Smogboy
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Post Number: 5316
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 12:02 am: | |
Ahhh yes...political grandstanding.
Sigh. |
Gplimpton
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Username: Gplimpton
Post Number: 10
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 2:16 am: | |
Brooks and Kwame are always taking swipes at each other. Brooks loves the bottle, Kwame loves to be Coleman Young. It was hilarious. |
Lmichigan
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Post Number: 5572
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 3:03 am: | |
It's hilarious until you realize how much the region has been lost because of decades-long petty, provincial infighting like this. When Metro Detroit should be competing against the world in this new global economy, Detroit has been fighting itself while everyone outside looks in and laughs at how ridiculous the situation is because it doesn't have to be this way. Too much ego; too much pride, too little cooperation. |
Perfectgentleman
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Post Number: 993
Registered: 03-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 3:20 am: | |
I think it was a joke to lighten things up a bit. |
Trainman
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Post Number: 407
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 8:13 am: | |
L Brooks won't pay for Kwame's buses or Cobo Hall.
So, Kwame goes on vacation. Sure, why not? Should the majority of the voting public ever learn the TRUth about mass transit and large convention halls, we will all pay our fare share of the expenses and work to together as a region defined as Detroit, MI, U.S.A. |
Jrvass
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Post Number: 88
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 9:15 am: | |
Kwame did give Brooks a bottle of vodka, to which LBP said he wouldn't need to refill his water bottle. What is the harm?
How many of you listened to the meeting on WJR? My guess is only a few of the posters on this thread.
And that is the shame. If you had listened to the conference, you might have learned something about the difference between local government cooperation and humor.
James |
Michigan
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Post Number: 360
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 10:13 am: | |
it sounded funny to me |
Ffdfd
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Post Number: 84
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 10:28 am: | |
Certain members of this forum were born without the humor gene. |
Iheartthed
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Post Number: 879
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 2:02 pm: | |
LB does this at the Mackinac conference every year. One year he came in with a psuedo secret service entourage around the time of the media's inquiries into Kwame's security detail. |
Gplimpton
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Post Number: 11
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 7:56 pm: | |
Yes, but this year's was classic. |
Iheartthed
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Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 10:00 pm: | |
I personally thought the security detail was funnier. |
Gplimpton
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Post Number: 12
Registered: 05-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 - 10:27 pm: | |
Security detail was funny, but anytime someone can put a lei around Kwame's neck, AND get Paul W. Smith to look like a dumbass...I have to say that's #1 in my book. |