Saturday, August 26, 2017

Should Obama pardon Kwame Kilpatrick? Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, met with Kilpatrick in Detroit in May 2007

Obama and Kilpatrick
His family has expressed interest in requesting a presidential pardon, but Kilpatrick won’t get one from Obama. That’s because federal prison inmates must wait five years before requesting a pardon. Kilpatrick was convicted and sentenced to prison in October 2013.
The two have crossed paths before.
Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, met with Kilpatrick in Detroit in May 2007 and sought the young mayor’s endorsement during his run for the presidential nomination.
The relationship cooled a year later. In September 2008, an Obama spokesman said Kilpatrick should resign amid the text-message scandal.
“(Obama) believes it is time for the mayor to step aside so that the city can move forward and get back to business,” Obama spokesman Brent Colburn said.
Kilpatrick was in jail when Obama was elected president in 2008.
In his memoir, Kilpatrick said he “hated on” Obama as he watched election coverage from his jail cell.
Kilpatrick wrote that he felt pride at seeing a fellow African-American win the historic election, but he writes that feeling later turned to enmity.
Kilpatrick writes he “hated on” Obama “a little, asking God, ‘Why? Why him and not me?’”
https://kissdetroit.com/3767338/should-president-obama-pardon-kwame-kilpatrick/

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