Leamon Wilson, chairman of the 18 American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees local presidents whose members work for the city, said union leaders think Kilpatrick should quit because the possibility of him being forced out by eight felony charges will undermine upcoming collective bargaining talks...

"For us to move forward and anything to happen, Kwame should resign because we don't see how he can serve," he said.

The city's collective bargaining agreement with its employees expires June 30, and Wilson said it's impossible to have good-faith talks when there's a possibility that Kilpatrick will leave office before they are complete. With 3,800 employees as members, AFSCME represents about one-quarter of all city workers.

Looks like the base is unhappy with the leadership all over the State.

Which is nice, for a change.  Because normally Democrats just reelect these guys.  Stay in Detroit, for instance.  In a city with a nation's worst 24.9% high school graduation rate.  It's conceivable that some of you out there still scratch your heads when you see numbers like that and wonder how things can legitimately be that bad.

I submit to you Exhibit A: Twice elected member of the Detroit Public Schools school board, Reverend David Murray.

The Detroit News reports that Murray's children have now been taken away from him and his wife followed them out the door.  Which makes sense, since she's the one who phoned in the complaint to children's services.  And what a complaint it was.  

"The house was deplorable, it was dirty, there's a hole in the ceiling in the living room, there's broken windows, there's a hole in the basement ceiling from water leaking in the kitchen."

Murray, 55, pastor of First Holy Temple Church of God in Christ and a licensed social worker, said he wouldn't discuss the case.

Murray, who legally changed his first name to Reverend, is one of 11 members on the school board that provides oversight for the operations in the 105,000-student school district.

Heaven help us.  The guy was first elected back in the late 1990s and complaints started surfacing back then, a decade ago.  They followed him right through his reelection in 2006.  And still they persist.  

That quote from the article really doesn't do the situation justice but "fair use" and all.  Click on over to the News website and have a gander.  Yikes.  

The guy changed his name to "Reverend" and what with that whole pesky free will thing going on I don't suppose there's much the Lord was going to do to stop him there.  But that social workers license and the two successful electoral campaigns in Detroit?  Those are items entirely within the realm of human control.  

Are these the sorts of people the Granholm / Cherry administration are licensing through DHS to protect the State's vulnerable kids?  You can color me shocked that anything ever goes wrong at Human Services what with good, fine, upstanding guys like this lunatic throwing the switches.  How many more "Reverends" are working for the State right now?  How many are overseeing cases with the next Isaac Lethbridge or Ricky Holland?  Apparently the screening process isn't quite as stringent as it ought to be.

And the whole twice-elected thing?  Well, the man didn't run as a Republican and Republicans didn't put him in office.  Which makes me wonder... you don't think Mark Grebner wants to change his statement after this, do you?