The Obama campaign wishes that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit Michigan will pass on the Democratic Convention.  The Mayor is currently facing felony charges in Michigan stemming from an infidelity scandal.  A spokesman from the Obama campaign said that Kilpatrick would serve as a distraction and take away from the Unity message of the Convention.  Further, one would think that the mayor would want to stay out of the spotlight given his current legal woes.  Unfortunately, the Detroit mayor is a superdelegate and the judge has given him permission to attend.  Michigan will be a tight race and the fact that Kilpatrick has all this negative baggage and is refusing to resign is not helpful and can detract from Obama’s efforts to win the state in November. 

Brent Colburn, a Michigan-based spokesman for the Obama campaign  said in an e-mail “the focus of our convention to people back in Michigan should be on Barack Obama and how the party intends to get America back on track, not (on) a distraction involving the troubles of one individual.” 

Not to mention that he will probably have to wear his tracking device to the Convention.  Just stay home Mayor.