Just another day in the hood. Straight thuggin. This might have saved the Democratic Governor from intervening and bringing criticism to her office. This guy was joke and this should have happened 9-months ago.

DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months.

The 38-year-old “Hip-Hop Mayor” who brought energy and excitement to City Hall when he took office in 2002 pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and will get four months behind bars.

The Democrat also will pay the city $1 million in restitution, lose his license to practice law, and cannot run for any elected office for five years. His resignation will take effect in two weeks.

Kilpatrick was charged earlier this year with perjury and other offenses for denying he and his chief of staff had an affair. The scandal broke wide open in January with the release of a trove of lusty text messages between the two of them that appeared to contradict the mayor.

“I lied under oath,” the beefy former college lineman said in court Thursday. His wife, Carlita, watched from the second row, occasionally closing her eyes.
Later Thursday, he said public servants should be held accountable to the people they serve.

“I take full responsibility for my own actions and for the poor judgment that they reflected,” he said on live television. “I wish with all my heart that we could turn back the hands of time and tell that young man to make better choices, but I can’t.”

But Kilpatrick left the door open to a return to public life.

“I want to tell you, Detroit, that you have set me up for a comeback,” he said. “I truly know who I am. I truly know where I come from. In Detroit I know who I am. And I know because of that, there’s another day for me.”