The Detroit Free Press reports:
"Sen. Obama believes that Mayor Kilpatrick's ongoing troubles and the serious charges against him have been a distraction that the city cannot afford," said Obama spokesman Brent Colburn.
"He believes it is time for the mayor to step aside so that the city can move forward and get back to business."
No word yet from the Obama campaign asking Mayor Daley to "step aside" for his close relationship with
friends who are domestic terrorists.As the Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Outfit hit man Nicholas Calabrese on Tuesday implicated a close friend of Mayor Daley's, Fred Barbara, as taking part in the bombing of a suburban restaurant in the early 1980s.
Calabrese is the star witness in the Family Secrets mob case and testified that Barbara, now a multimillionaire businessman, was one of six men who split up into teams to throw bombs on the roofs of two restaurants.
Barbara has never been charged in the case but allegedly teamed up with Chicago mob captain Angelo "The Hook" LaPietra and reputed mob killer James DiForti to bomb Horwath's Restaurant in Elmwood Park, which was a well-known hangout for mobsters.
Detroit's Mayor just doesn't have the PR that Mayor Daley does.
