A couple of weeks ago it was the Mayor of New York and soon it could be the Mayor of Detroit.

Apparently back in 2002 a local Detroit paper published text messages from the mayors and his chief of staff, Christine Beatty, pagers. The messages indicated that the two were having a sexual relationship. The gotcha is that they lied about it during a prior hearing involving the firing of deputy police chief, one Gary Brown. Brown was supposedly fired because he knew about the affair and was investigating the mayor.

Kilpatrick, after the text messages, were published came out and said that his wife (yes of course he is married) knew about it and they have worked it out. However, the weekend prior to the text messages coming out, he was wining and dinning another woman (a Carmen Slowsky) in North Carolina.

What is up with the mayors? is the power getting to their other ‘heads’?

Either way, Kilpatrick in a heap to trouble. He could very well end up in a jail cell.

Check out the Details of Charges Against the Mayor and his chief of Staff

By the way, Christine Beatty, resigned back in January, 2008.

A Kenyan Member of Parliament (MP) is compensated to the tune of Kshs750,000 (approximately $10,000) a month. This includes mileage, entertainment allowance, extraneous allowance, house allowance and monthly car maintenance. If you are a vice-president, minister, assistant minister or parliamentary service commission member, add another Kshs 300,000.

Note that the current parliament, 10th Parliament, has 207 sworn MP’s!

The 10th parliament MP’s did not start work until march 6th,2008 and in case you were wondering, yes they got paid for the month of January and February. Ok so they worked one day in January when they elected the speaker and his deputy but that is it! Shortly after President Kibaki prorogued parliament until March! So why did they get paid for February? Why didn’t they get a pro-rate for the month of January?

I think part of the problem is that MP’s determine their own pay. So every time there is a new parliament, the first order of business is to up salaries. The 9th parliament gave themselves a Kshs1.4 billion gratuity in addition to an existing pension despite a huge protest from wananchi. The MP’s in that session - 222.

Perharps this demand to have the MP’s salaries drastically reduced through this petition will finally send the message home.

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