Detroit's Re-Elected Mayor Promises 'Change'
Hendrix Had Lead Early On, But Late Surge Prevailed
Other Races Of Interest
A Local 4 exit poll showed Freman Hendrix leading incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick based on a telephone poll of people who said they voted.The poll, by East Lansing-based Mitchell Research and Communications Inc. for WDIV and The Detroit News, showed Hendrix with 56 percent and Kilpatrick with 44 percent.That survey interviewed 750 people by about 8:30 p.m. EST and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. Four years after becoming one of the city's youngest mayors, Kilpatrick found himself asking voters for forgiveness -- and another chance -- after a scandal-plagued first term. Still, he sees himself at the helm of a city dealing with its problems and heading in the right direction.Some city services have improved under Kilpatrick, who touts getting the grass cut in parks and plowing snow from streets among his administration's successes. New homes and downtown construction speak to revitalization efforts, but blight pervades many neighborhoods. Kilpatrick, 35, is a lawyer and former schoolteacher who played football in college and has a mother in Congress. He swiftly rose through the state House of Representatives to the mayor's office, but had a challenging first term. Kilpatrick has implied that the media is out to get him with scrutiny that included his use of a city credit card on expensive out-of- town travel and a city lease of a luxury sport utility vehicle for his family. And he has tried to shake the label of "hip-hop mayor," removing his trademark diamond earring. Hendrix, 55, is a career bureaucrat who earned a business degree from Eastern Michigan University on the GI Bill after a four-year stint in the Navy. After leaving former Mayor Dennis Archer's administration, he worked at a Detroit-based consulting firm until stepping down in 2004 to pursue his mayoral bid.
FBI Probe Into Absentee Ballots
Late Tuesday, the U.S. attorney's office on behalf of the FBI requested that the city preserve at least 42,000 absentee ballots, applications and ballot envelopes so the agency could investigate allegations of wrongdoing.The FBI said it is investigating claims that the names of dead people were used to cast absentee ballots, that ballots were sent out improperly and that there was improper assistance given by the city clerk's staff to people incapable of voting. In addition to budget problems, Detroit faces a continuing population decline that started a half-century ago. It now has just more than 900,000 residents, compared with 1.8 million in 1950, and earlier this year was listed as the nation's most impoverished big city.- November 8, 2005: Detroit Mayoral Candidates Cast Their Votes
- November 8, 2005: FBI Goes To Court Over Detroit Ballots
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