Shots at a corrupt ex-mayor come from L. Brooks Patterson, Bill Shea, Nolan Finley, PR exec John Bailey and others.
"Austin Jackson strikes out and they still don't have a deal in Congress. Not sure which statement I have heard more in the past week."
-- Roger Martin, East Lansing communications executive, on Facebook
"You’re spending billions of dollars a day in Afghanistan and you can’t take care of Detroit? That’s ridiculous.”
-- Lewis Black., comedian, in Deadline Detroit interview
“Kwame Kilpatrick gets 28 years in federal prison for being a grossly corrupt SOB. Will Tigers win to cap off a great day?”
-- Bill Shea of Crain’s Detroit Business, tweeting as BillShea_19
“Have a yearly parade in Detroit on this day to celebrate Kwame going to jail.”
-- Damn Simons of New Baltimore, tweeting as @Simons_says
“Kwame's sentence is driven by the fact that he was a corrupt, thieving mayor. . . . Weep no tears for this one.”
-- Eric Baerren, Mount Pleasant blogger
“The guy was intelligent, charismatic, witty and greedy as hell."
-- L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County executive, in statement on sentencing
“He deserves to do the rest of his life for the shit he's done.”
-- Kim Marshall of Dearborn, on Facebook
"Here we had a man with tremendous potential that could have done so much in his life and career."
-- John Bailey, Detroit PR exec, in Free Press commentary
“He was never anything more than a crook.”
-- Nolan Finley, in Detroit News column
“Let him rot. I hope the other prisoners rape him like he raped Detroit.”
-- Tiffany Kelemen of Detroit, tweeting as @TiffanyKelemen
“Is Kwame going to be the butch or the bitch?”
-- Walter J. Power, tweeting as @mitty34
"It’s going to make a heckuva made-for-TV movie.
"It’s going to make a heckuva made-for-TV movie."
-- Chris Vander Doelen, Windsor Star columnist
"If Kilpatrick had had the ethics of a Dennis Archer or Damon Keith or Carl Levin, he could have had a shot at becoming Michigan’s first black governor or U.S. senator."
-- Bill McGraw, in Deadline Detroit
