QUID PRO QUO?
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (2002-2008) was scheduled to speak at the Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day dinner on August 21 at the Suburban Collection as this edition of Oakland Confidential was being put to bed. The Novi resident was invited to speak by Oakland County GOP Chairman Vance Patrick. We asked a few traditional (i.e. non-MAGA) party members their reaction days ahead of the dinner and the views were mixed. Some were nonplussed while most others “are thinking WTF?”, said one political observer. Don’t remember the disgraced mayor? He was convicted of racketeering and extortion in 2013 and sentenced to 28 years in prison. But Donald Trump, on his way out of the White House in January of 2021, commuted his sentence. No surprise that Kilpatrick, who was a Democrat when in the legislature and the mayor’s office, endorsed Trump in June of this year. It will be interesting to see how many Republicans show up for the event. One GOP member, who said he and others would not be going to the annual dinner, predicted that it would be “sparsely attended.”
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