A city council, a judge and a soon-to-be ex-wife disenable.
Disenablers of the Month:
Detroit’s City Council, which has begun the process of removing Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from office for (allegedly) lying under oath to cover up an extramarital affair with his Chief of Staff, Christine Beatty. The mayor, a Democrat, whose story was chronicled in the Top Story in last month’s TAR says the City Council is persecuting him for political reasons. However, the entire council consists of Democrats. Maybe lying under oath really does matter, even if the subject is “only”about sex. On the other hand, the council members may be simply sickened by Kilpatrick’s multiple shenanigans.
Porter, Indiana Superior Court Judge David Chidester was fed up with Stephanie Pochron’s repeated arrests for DUI, the latest one of which resulted in serious injury to her victim. Chidester ordered Pochron, age 30, to park her mangled car in front of her house in Wanatah, Indiana, for three years to serve as a reminder of the consequences of her DUI. Although the judge allowed the car to be moved after neighbors complained that it was an eyesore, Pochron, who blew an extraordinary .317 after the crash, pledged, “I’m never going to drink again.”Only time will tell.
Actor comedian Bill Murray’s wife Jennifer Butler Murray who, as related in the “runners-up”story above, didn’t mince words in explaining that the reason for divorcing him is his “addiction to marijuana and alcohol.”Good for her even though, if we truly want to educate the uninformed we might add, “and consequential gross misbehaviorsâ€.