This is the guy Kwame was helping cheat his way to City contracts.  The lefties toss the word "thug" around a lot but yowzas!  The Detroit Free Press has a scary little profile piece on Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's pal Bobby Ferguson.  

The recent text message scandal has uncovered evidence that the Hip Hop Mayor passed along apparently exclusive information to help Mr. Ferguson obtain tens of millions of dollars worth of contracts with the City.  Begs the question... why?  Is it because the guy was indirectly a five-figure contributor to the Mayor's campaign (big campaign checks to Jennifer Granholm sure didn't hurt Joel Ferguson... no relation... secure a hundred million dollar contract to build a new police headquarters even the police don't want) or is there something else going on here?

What reason could the State's second most powerful Democrat possibly have in associating with a "gentleman" like this?  And by associating I mean conspiring to violate contract policy and taxpayer protections by rigging the bidding process.  Which, in plain English translates to "payoffs."  Allegedly.  

Ferguson's record paints a pretty clear picture about the guy.  He really is a thug.  And he's got "enforcer" written all over him.  And he's getting giant payoffs from the Mayor of the City of Detroit.  Hmm...

1988: Ferguson was turned away from a bar for using a fake ID (he was 20).  He returned with a baseball bat, shouted "white boy," hit one guy in the head and Nancy Kerrigan'd another with a shot to the knee and a swing at the head that was, by the grace of God, blocked by the victim's forearm.

1990:  Kwame's buddy was arrested and charged with attempted murder after shouting "Kill them, kill them" and spraying a crowd of teenagers with a Tech 9 semi-automatic machine pistol.  He's not in jail because, mysteriously, each of the witnesses "failed to appear" in court.  Not that he sounds like the kind of guy who'd try to intimidate witnesses or anything.

1995:  Charged and convicted for illegally carrying a concealed weapon.  But it wasn't his fault.  There was a cop that called him a naughty name.  So that made it OK.  At least that was his defense.

2005:  Plead guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm after pistol whipping an employee.  And not a nancy sorta pistol whip either.  He hurt the guy so badly that he gave him permanent brain damage and the cat now suffers dizziness, seizures and can only walk with the assistance of a cane.

And nary a peep of disapproval from the left. Telling, isn't it?