Kilpatrick won’t be heading to Hawaii

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick abruptly canceled Thursday his trip to a public pension conference in Hawaii after he learned that media organizations planned to follow him to Honolulu.

Kilpatrick has come under scrutiny in the last two weeks for his travel plans, first to the Hawaii conference, and then for taking his family with him to a posh California resort in August that was paid for in part by his nonprofit civic organization.

Kilpatrick also said this week that he would continue to use the civic fund to travel, speaking about Detroit at universities and to political groups, politicians and philanthropic organizations.

Federal tax law says that officers, founders or individuals who can influence the spending and operations of such tax-exempt organizations, like the civic fund, are forbidden from personally benefiting from the agency.

The mayor founded the civic fund. He is not an officer, but the board includes his sister, Ayanna, and friends from high school, including Chief of Staff Christine Beatty and Derek Miller, its chief information officer.

The mayor’s use of the fund to take his family on vacation is inappropriate, national tax experts and attorneys said.

This use raises a host of troubling questions,” said Fran Hill, director of the tax program at the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center. “He’s getting a benefit.”

Hill said organizations designated as tax-exempt 501c4 civic organizations, such as the civic fund, have become synonymous with slush funds for politicians.

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Money doesn’t make someone more civil, more honest, more socially conscious. Money only amplifies the core of that individual. Kwame is a perfect example of that fact. Having access to money and power only makes him act more like a nigger. He’s no better than a section 8 nigger that get’s foodstamps…in fact he’s worse, he’s spending way more taxpayer money than a single section 8′er.

From Kwame to the NBA, the myth of poverty creating crime is dis proven once again.

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