Christine MacDonald, Detroit News
- Several City Council members on Friday called on business and religious leaders to join them in demanding Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s resignation, saying those leaders have been silent for too long.
President Kenneth V. Cockrel Jr. said he talked on Thursday night to a couple business leaders he wouldn’t name, and said that he believes there is a hesitation to speak out in the business community because many are white suburbanites who fear criticism. But he said that shouldn’t prevent people from speaking up.
“If you are doing business in the city of Detroit you have a voice,” Cockrel said. . “You ought to be using that voice.”
