With the recent legal problems facing Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, we are one step closer to having him gone from office, and removing the blight he is on the city.

Next time Kwame, perhaps you shouldn't do the following:

• Sex Scandal with Chief of Staff
• Fire police officers that find out about sex scandal
• Using $9 million of city funds to pay the settlement for trial of aforementioned scandal and firings
• Having a stripper killed, allegedly
• Using city funds to pay for a new Lincoln Navigator for your wife
• Assaulting a Sheriff's detective trying to deliver a warrant to an associate of yours
• Continuing to play the race card against the suburbs in response to the failed and corrupt policies of the city
• Leaving the country while on bail, without telling the court and then apologizing only when caught

It is unfortunate that his mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, while not nearly as corrupt, won her primary bid for re-election. Had the opposition actually joined forces, the 39% voting bloc would not have won, as the competitors 36% and 24% results, respectively would have been enough to change the tide of politics in Michigan. The stain Kilpatrick has left on Detroit and Michigan can only hurt the Democrats this year. Obama will no doubt carry Detroit if only due to race, but in a time when Republicans are on the run generally, Michigan is overwhelmingly upset with the Democratic leadership, from Kwame, to Governor Jennifer Granholm's failed policies (you can't blame John Engler anymore) and Senator Debbie Stabenow's problems with her husband getting busted for soliciting a prostitute recently. Granholm, has a 20% approval rating, lower than that of President Bush and rivaling that of Congress. Kwame presumably has a much lower rate.