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Detroit Mayor's Blunders Hurt Mom's Reelection Chances

Posted Jun 11, 08 8:00 AM CDT in Politics,  Gossip,  US 

(Newser) – She’s a popular 11-year incumbent with a $500,000 war chest facing two cash-strapped two opponents, but Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick still faces a challenge in defending her House seat, the Detroit Free Press reports. Why? Her son is Kwame Kilpatrick, the Detroit mayor recently charged with perjury in a highly public scandal involving an affair with his chief of staff.

Already, rivals have constructed ads juxtaposing Cheeks Kilpatrick’s public shows of support for her son with lists of his misdeeds. But for all their political ammunition, the challengers will have to find money to make the criticisms stick and unseat the head of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Aug. 5 primary.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. greets Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich., as she arrives to deliver remarks to the Congressional Black Caucus on Sept. 28, 2007.   (AP Photo)
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick talks to the media during a news conference after a speaking engagement at Samaritan Center on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 in Detroit.   (AP Photo/Jerry S. Mendoza)
In this May 7, 2007 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd after being introduced by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit.   (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, D-Mich,, takes part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Dec. 6, 2006 file photo.   (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)
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