DETROIT -- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick a visionary leader while speaking to a crowd of about 120 people at a hall in Wyandotte.

Pelosi attended two campaign meetings Friday, one at the Italian American Hall in Wyandotte and the other at the Grosse Point War Memorial, in support of Cheeks Kilpatrick re-election efforts.

The mother of embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick faces a three-way Democratic primary against state Sen. Martha Scott and state Rep. Mary Waters on Aug. 5.

Cheeks Kilpatrick first was elected in 1996. She typically has cruised to re-election, but her son's legal troubles have complicated her bid this year.

Kwame Kilpatrick has been indicted on perjury and other charges and on Friday his bond was revoked to $75,000 in light of assault accusations.

Cheeks Kilpatrick has called in the big guns to help her campaign, Charles Rangel of New York appeared in Detroit on July 22. and James Clyburn of South Carolina will visit Detroit Aug. 3, two days before the primary.