Divorced Mother Of Two And Law Student Seeks Forgiveness... And A Continued Income Stream
BREAKING NEWS: BEATTY RESIGNS!!!!
Sure she sent sexy text messages to the hip-hop Detroit mayor on her city owned crackberry. And yes, her and Kwame Kilpatrick did go on excusions at taxpayers expense while both were married and her husband Lou was coaching hizzoner's son. Hey, that's water on the bridge according to Christine Beatty's pastor.
While Kilpatrick was a no-show at Sunday church services today, he and Beatty, both 37, were quite the team. Mayor Kilpatrick's biggest successes included negotiating much-needed health care and wage concessions with city unions and crafting a strategy for neighborhood improvement. But they were also partners in crime that could now see them both behind bars.
On Thursday that the embattled city chief of staff had the Rev. Ronald Griffin of Rose of Sharon Church of God in Christ disclose that he and his wife have been counseling Beatty and that she is devastated by what has happened. He wouldn't be specific, but said Beatty knows she made a mistake. knows she made a "colossal mistake" and is repentant.
But asking for forgiveness may not be enough for the longtime Kilpatrick aide and high school classmate to stay in the job and avoid perjury charges, after text messages emerged that contradict her under-oath denials of an affair with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, married to Carlita and a father of three.The exisitence of those damning text messages between Kilpatrick and Beatty -- messages that also document that they fired Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown, which in part cost the city a $9 million lawsuit settlement, which includes legal fees -- should end Beatty's city career, some say.
"She's been an issue for a long time," said Adolph Mongo, a political consultant, who said Beatty has to resign. "When you become a polarizing individual, you need to get out of the way." "She knows her life will never be the same," Griffin said. "She fully realizes the consequences and all those that she has affected. She has not tried to justify it."
Beatty, a former social worker, has worked with Kilpatrick since 1997, when he was in the state House of Representatives, and helped chair his first-term mayoral campaign. The two have been friends since attending Cass Technical High School together. Beatty divorced her ex Lou Beatty in 2006, has two girls, ages 9 and 7, and is a law student at Wayne State University. Although she remains out of the office, Beatty apparently has no plans to quit her position to date.