Kwame Kilpatrick (Deadline Detroit photo)
It's no longer shocking to hear Warren Mayor Jim Fouts spout something offensive.
The latest: Fouts' former political adviser Joe DiSano alleged that the Warren mayor called Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick the N-word on election night 2007, Robert Snell of The Detroit News reports.
The comments by Joe DiSano were leveled in a sworn deposition filed Friday in federal court in a racial-bias suit filed against the city by an African-American former Warren police officer DeSheila Howlett, who claims Fouts failed to provide diversity and anti-discriminatory training and repeatedly used discriminatory and racist language.
During his April deposition, DiSano explained that he tried to arrange a phone in November 2007 between Mayor Kilpatrick and Fouts, a city council member, who won his first mayoral election in Warren.
But Fouts said, according to DISano, "why would I want to talk to that N-word."
The mayor, through the city attorney, insisted the Fouts never said such a thing.
The News report comes on the same day that Steve Neavling of Motor City Muckraker reports:
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts mocked the disabled daughter of former presidential candidate Rick Santorum as a “mongoloid baby” who’s “got her tongue hanging out the side and all kinds of shit,” according to another audio recording obtained exclusively by Motor City Muckraker.
