Mayor Caught Exchanging Steamy Texts With Chief Of Staff

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic - and often salacious - text messages with a top aide, contradicting earlier denials made under oath court that they had romantic ties.

Christine Beatty, the Mayor's Chief of Staff was married at the time of the texts. Mayor Kilpatrick is still married.

Below are a few of the texts:

"I'm madly in love with you," Kilpatrick wrote on Oct. 3, 2002.


"I hope you feel that way for a long time," Beatty replied. "In case you haven't noticed, I am madly in love with you, too!"


On Oct. 16, 2002, Kilpatrick wrote Beatty: "I've been dreaming all day about having you all to myself for 3 days. Relaxing, laughing, talking, sleeping and making love."

According to Beatty's bio on the City of Detroit's website, she has been in the Mayor's Cabinet since 2002. She first started her career with Kilpatrick as his legislative aide when he was a State Representative.

Mayor Kilpatrick and Beatty are subjects of a slander lawsuit introduced by two traffic cops who pulled Beatty over for speeding in 2004.

According to reports, Beatty told the officers, "Do you know who the (expletive) I am?"

Following the stop, the Detroit Free Press reports:

The officers sued for slander after Chief Ella Bully-Cummings publicly said the officers harassed Beatty and Mayor Kilpatrick told a radio station: "It sounds like a setup to me."

See a photo of Mayor Kilpatrick with his wife. The next photo after Kilpatrick's is Beatty's official Cabinet photo:

Comments

[Collielady]

The Huffington Post has told only part of this story. It isn't about the extra-marital affair with the Mayor's Chief of Staff that's at issue. Nobody really cares about his sex life.

The issue is perjury in a whistleblower case in which two police officers were fired by the Mayor and his Chief of Staff (mistress) resulting in a trial and settlement that cost the Detroit taxpayers $9 million to settle. The mess has resulted in one cover-up after another, perjury, and obstruction of justice.

It's far from over.

[LeeX]

All of you not familiar with Kwame, the issue is not extramarital sex. Kwame fooling around is not news. The issue is that he is shagging Beatty after testifying in a court case that they were not an item. That's perjury. Everybody who reads the news in Detroit knows Beatty. He hired a bunch of his no-good pals from high school to prominent positions in his administration. Beatty got some cops in hot water after a traffic stop. They sued and won.

BTW, his reelection was RIGGED. Polls before the election and also exit polls showed him losing by double digits. He is very unpopular but he has powerful people getting him in office for reasons that I don't understand.

[richard5]

Why are we so surpise when politicians get their freaks on? I'm a bit tired of the voyeristic and idealistic nature of some in the American public who are always looking for their next "American Idiol" in politics when their personal lives in all probability is in all likelihood no more moral than those they expect to have the highest moral standards.

Face it America, your morality went out the window decades ago! Stop the madness, stop looking for saints where there are none to be found.

Who this man is sleeping with is no body's business to begin but his, his wife, and any other person he may be bedding. Watch what's going on in your own lives and bedrooms, and stop looking for saints where there are none to be found. All of us have come short I would argue when it comes to personal morality. The only questions I want to know about this man is this: how is he at running the government? He can screw a chicken for all I care as long as his job performance is unhindered.

[VSamuels]

Kudos to the adults at HuffPo for recognizing that it is often necessary to have their standards of deceny enforced, when subjects involves persons who are black Americans. Rather than believe that some are capable of engaging in debate without resorting to ad hominem attacks for no reason other than they can do so.

Just like the debate swirling about Affirmative Action, it doesn't take a genius to surmise that believing that 'folks' will simply do good because they recognize the higher calling of fair play is rather naive and often destroyed by the 1st set of offenders.

Again, good job HuffPo!

[clintonius]

The court needs to stay out of it. Leave him alone and stop delving into his personal life. You voyeurs are despicable. Is he not aloud to send any personal text messages? Totally retarded...

[Sargoth]

Kilpatrick is a corrupt piece of garbage and I was personally shocked that the people of Detroit were stupid enough to re-elect him. I shouldn't have been too surprised though since the people of America re-elected Bush...

Anyway, I think this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back with Kwame. I hope they impeach him so Detroit can get someone in office who will fight to turn the city around instead of gallivanting around with women and throwing parties in the Manoogian Mansion.

[steamboat]

When asked about Kilpatrick's predictament, Andrew Young stated, "I've always said, Bill Clinton has done more black women than Kilpatrick".

[dora rice]

the Whites and Blacks divided government long time ago. The Blacks get to govern all inner cities, the Whites have the White House, Wall Street, and the white apron suburbs and the Wheat Belt. Now what the inner cities are made of? we all know by now. And a little sex scandal if you can call it that, is so minute against the condoned doap trafficing and crimes of the inner cities. Who are we fooling. Besides since when is it a crime to have a steamy sex affair with anyone. It ain't against the Constitution except his wife's constitution...

[ResidentChimp]

There's not much diversity in the Mayor's Cabinet. I guess that stuff just applies to others.

[ignorantwillyharper]

States that he is still married... probably not for long.

[Katboy]

The Bunk is mayor of Detroit?

Nice step up for a murder police!

[vinny]

something disproportionate about this man...

[realitytrumpsbull]

Your tax dollars at play...any kind of extracurricular real estate 'business' going on in Detroit?

The plot thickens...

[HappyRabbit]

If this is news it's just another sad, sad comment on our inability to transend our puritanical roots. HR

[blinkone]

God, this story game me a raging falafel.