Sex-Text Scandal Scares Off Big Convention
3/01/2008
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's troubles over a
text-messaging sex scandal may have prompted a national organization to
move its annual convention to New Orleans.
The Detroit Free Press is reporting Friday that the National Conference of Black Mayors chose another site for its convention in April after speaking with Kilpatrick's office.
The convention had been expected to bring about 2,500 mayors and staff members to Detroit.
Executive director Vanessa Williams tells the newspaper that Kilpatrick's office wanted her organization to move to a different site.
Kilpatrick spokesman James Canning says city officials were unable to work out logistics to ensure the convention would live up to standards set by past major events visiting Detroit.
Right - it has nowt to do with the low standards set by our mayor.
