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DETROIT, Aug. 20, 2024 ~ Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has confirmed to speak at the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at the Suburban Collection Showplace this Wednesday.
Kilpatrick, who was elected twice as Detroit’s Democratic mayor, is expected to address his journey of repentance and redemption following his 2013 conviction on 24 felony counts, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax violations.
“I think we’re living in a time where this kind of ‘run-to-your-favorite-corner’ politics is not working for America,” Kilpatrick said today on “’JR Morning with Guy Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, and Jamie Edmonds.”
“When we get into strictly identity and partisanship politics, I think we lose, and so for me, it was just time to come out … to be who I am, and to be the representative of whom I serve.”
PODCAST:
Aug. 20, 2024 ~ Kwame Kilpatrick will speak at the Oakland County Republican Party‘s Lincoln Day Dinner on Wednesday at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. Guy, Lloyd, and Jamie talk with the former Detroit mayor about campaigning for Donald Trump, and where he falls on traditional conservative politics.
(CONTINUED) Kilpatrick’s 28-year prison sentence was commuted back in 2021 by then President Donald Trump. Trump cited the support of select faith and political leaders, as well as the former mayor’s community service while in prison, as reasons for the commutation.
Tickets for the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner at the Suburban Collection Showplace are still available. In addition to Kilpatrick, speakers scheduled include former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, conservative radio host and author Justin Barcley, Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra, and business leader and political surrogate, Lena Epstein.
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