DATE PAPER COMMENT

June 23, 2008 Detroit News Conditions of Kilpatrick's bond, while charged
with perjury, obstruction of justice and misuse
of office include no travel out of state without
authorization of the judge. Kilpatrick's city
business travel is unrestricted, but still
requires notice to the judge 48 hours in
advance.

July 10 Special Council/Tunnel Commission In

Camera Meeting

July 10, 2008 Windsor Star Windsor's city council will step back from
negotiating a tunnel deal, until scandals
involving Detroit's council and its mayor
subside and Detroit can clearly say what it
wants.
"The distractions of Detroit's council have left
the situation so uncertain. Windsor's council
does not want to proceed and incur further
(legal) expense unless Detroit clarifies it's
position," local lawyer Cliff Sutts, lead
negotiator for Windsor, said after a two-hour
special council meeting on Thursday.
"We could proceed with negotiations, reach
completed documents and (Detroit's council)
could reject it for reasons totally unrelated to
the documents themselves.
"Windsor's council has decided they don't
want to incur expenses on a speculative
basis."
"We are wide open. We want to make a deal,"
he said. "The City of Windsor's objectives are
to keep ownership, control and management
of the tunnel in public hands.
"We are throwing the ball into the City of
Detroit's court and let them respond."

July 11. 2008 Windsor Star Tory made the statements Friday while
standing outside Windsor's city hall.
He was scheduled to meet with Mayor Eddie
Francis, but the meeting was called off
because the mayor informed Tory he was too
busy dealing with the tunnel deal situation
with Detroit.
 "He seems fully consumed with the tunnel
matter which I guess has taken a turn," Tory
said. "I understand. We had a good chat on
the phone."

July 11, 2008 Free Press Sutts said he still has authority to
continue speaking with Detroit officials
and negotiations would resume if Detroit
council members state their support for
finalizing the sale. In fact, he spoke today
with Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams and
attorney William Phillips, who has
represented the City of Detroit in
negotiations.

July 11 Free Press Detroit City Councilwoman Sheila Cockrel

raised the possible uncertainty at today’s
meeting of the council’s Budget, Finance and
Audit Committee, prompting Detroit Deputy
Mayor Anthony Adams, who has been a
key negotiator for Detroit in the deal, to
tell the council committee that he remains
confident the deal will get done and said
Sutts’ comments in the paper are
meaningless. In fact, he said attorney
William Phillips, who has represented
Detroit in the negotiations, spoke with
Sutts as recently as Thursday night, and
Sutts asked for Phillips to provide him
Detroit documents on the deal.
Adams said Francis told Kilpatrick as
recently as last week that the deal was on
and he was excited about the Detroit
council finally taking a first step toward a
sale.
“It’s our understanding that we are still
proceeding and continuing our
negotiations with Windsor,” Adams told
the council.

July 11 Detroit News Windsor told the Ontario government Friday

to put its loan application for the $75 million
on hold, said the city's lead negotiator, Cliff
Sutts…
 He'll try to soothe Windsor's worries Tuesday
by asking the Detroit City Council to approve
a "letter of intent," which would outline the
city's commitment and the deal's parameters,
Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams said.
"It's to give them another level of assurance
that their efforts will not be for naught," said
Adams, adding that Windsor politicians may
not be used to how "rough and tumble"
politics can get in Detroit.

He called Sutts' statements a negotiating

ploy. Last week, Kilpatrick and Windsor
Mayor Eddie Francis spoke about the deal
and Francis was "excited" about the Detroit
council's vote.
"Mayor Francis said the deal was a go,"
Adams said of that conversation. "I view this
as just a lot of posturing on (Sutts') part."

Sutts said Windsor is eager to pull off the

deal that would assign both cities' share of
the span to an authority appointed by
members from each municipality. Windsor
officials have said it wants to prevent the
tunnel from being bought by a private entity
but doesn't want to keep spending money if
the deal is doomed.
He added Windsor officials aren't
"married" to any proposal and would
renegotiate a deal that is more palpable to
Detroit.
"We are saying get on the same page and
we will start dealing," Sutts said. "Windsor
wants to make a deal."

July 11, 2008 WWJ The chief negotiator on the tunnel deal for
Windsor, attorney Cliff Sutts, says they're
not backing out on talks just postponing
them.

“Windsor City Council has decided that I am

to postpone negotiations with Detroit until
there’s a unified voice from Detroit to speak
with or negotiate with,” said Sutts.
 He says the distractions of Detroit's council
have left the situation so uncertain, saying
Windsor's council does not want to incur
further legal expense unless Detroit clarifies
its position.

“The mayor's office, the administration and

council seem to be on different tracks,” said
Sutts. “All we're asking is for Detroit to speak
with one voice – and we're getting two
different signals from Detroit – one from the
Mayor's office and one from council.”

July 12, 2008 Free Press Sutts said negotiations would resume if
Detroit council members state their support
for the sale. He spoke Friday with Detroit
Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams.
Adams, who has been a key negotiator,
said Friday that the Kilpatrick
administration would prepare a letter of
intent spelling out the parameters of the
deal -- the purchase price, range of interest
rates and other terms -- and ask the Detroit
council to approve it as a show of good faith.

July 15 Detroit News The City Council won't receive a letter of

intent signaling the city's interest in selling its
half of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel until
Tuesday afternoon and may not consider it
until Thursday.
Deputy Mayor Anthony Adams has pressed
the city council to approve a "letter of intent"
to agree to the deal with Windsor. The letter
outlines the city's commitment and the deal's
parameters and is designed to mollify
counterparts in Windsor, who are considered
about the complicated deal.

July 17 Detroit News Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said Thursday

afternoon the City Council's vote earlier today
nixing the process to sell Detroit's half of the
Detroit-Windsor tunnel was "nebulous," held
no weight, and the city, at least for now, is not
planning to lay off any workers.
The mayor said his staff has meetings
 planned with Windsor on Friday, and he
expects the $75 million deal will go forward.

July 17, 2008 Free Press At one point in the discussion, Sheila Cockrel
said that her aide had been told by Clifford
Sutts, negotiating the deal on Windsor’s
behalf, that Windsor would not go forward
with the tunnel deal if the Detroit title for its
side of the tunnel was not transferred into the
authority.
Later, Adams and William Phillips,
negotiating on behalf of Detroit, said they
talk to Sutts several times a day and insist
that the title does not need to be transferred
into the authority before Windsor would go
ahead with the deal.

July 17, 2008 WDIV As the council was discussing a resolution to

rescind the adoption of the articles of the
Detroit Tunnel authority sale, Sheila Cockrel
insisted that Clifford Sutts, who is negotiating
on Windsor's behalf, said that Windsor would
go forward with the deal if the Detroit title was
not transferred to the DTA.
Adams and William Phillips, who are
negotiating on Detroit's behalf, insisted
they had been speaking to Sutts several
times a day, and that Sutts assured them
that the title does not need to be transferred
to the DTA before Windsor can go ahead with
the deal.

July 17, 2008 Windsor Star Sutts said it may be next week before he
really understands the impact of what
transpired Thursday.

July 17, 2008 Free Press Kwame News conference transcript:

Q: [Reporter] Despite what the council voted
on … you guys are still going ahead as if
the authority can still be created?

A: [Kilpatrick] Yes, and it’s not because

we’re just doing that. In the council rules it
states to rescind the vote, you have to do it
within four business days. They can’t do it
after formal session. There was nothing in
 this vote that was in accordance with the
charter of the city of Detroit and with the rules
of city council, so we’re going to move
forward, because the rules say we should.
And, we’re also going to move forward,
because [Reporter name]…I think one of the
questions was that the tunnel deal was dead.

The only thing that was potentially killed

today was a dream [Reporter name] of some
Detroiter who works for the city of Detroit
having a job in September. And, so we can’t
really allow for this thing to die today.
We’re going to keep moving,

July 18 Detroit News Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Thursday said

the City Council's vote to halt a controversial
plan to sell the city's half of the Detroit-
Windsor tunnel came too late for the vote to
be valid, adding that he's moving ahead with
the deal.

July 21, 2008 Windsor COUNCIL MEETING

July 23, 2008 KWAME/ EDDIE MEETING
July 24, 2008 Windsor Star Scandal-plagued Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick came to Windsor for a secret
meeting Wednesday to reassure city officials
he wants to move forward with a controversial
tunnel agreement.
A 90-minute meeting which included
Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis was held in
the downtown office of lawyer Cliff Sutts,
Windsor's lead negotiator for the tunnel
talks…
He wanted to make sure everyone fully
understood where we stand in moving
forward on the tunnel agreement," said
Kilpatrick's spokesman James Canning later
in the day. "He felt it was important that we
meet with Windsor officials to convey that
message.
"We will continue to negotiate to complete
the deal…"
Sutts indicated the Wednesday meeting,
called by Kilpatrick, focused on the Detroit
officials -- which also included Kilpatrick's
 chief of staff and two lawyers negotiating the
deal for Detroit -- "explaining the recent
events in Detroit."
Kilpatrick told the Canadians that "the deal is
not dead, despite what we may have heard,"
Sutts said.
"I suppose he could have picked up the
phone, but he realized by coming over it
makes an impression he really wants the
deal. Going to the trouble of coming over
makes you believe they are serious."

July 26, 2008 Windsor Star When indicted Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick crossed the border for a secret
meeting with Windsor Mayor Eddie Francis
Wednesday, Francis crossed the line.

Without any public notification, the pair met in

a lawyer's office, far from the prying eyes of
the media, the public or their respective
councils…

The early-morning meeting took place,

allegedly at Kilpatrick's request, so the
scandal-plagued mayor could assure Windsor
officials he was still keen on inking a deal that
would transfer control of the Detroit portion of
the tunnel to Windsor.

July 29, 2008 Detroit News The Detroit City Council on Tuesday
overrode Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's veto
aimed at keeping alive the sale of the
city's share of the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.
Kilpatrick vetoed a July 17 council vote
aimed at stopping the process to sell the
tunnel. The council had voted 6-2 to rescind
its vote creating an authority that would take
over ownership and operations of the tunnel,
a first step in the $75 million sale…

The council's unanimous override of the

mayor's veto further highlights the divide
between it and Kilpatrick on the sale.
.
August 7, 2008 Kwame Court Because of the politics that were involved in
Statement the City Council on our side, there was a rush
vote which got the Windsor City Council,
the Windsor mayor and the lawyers who
have been working on this work for 18
months in flux. That is the last part of a
$300 million deficit that the city has been
carrying since before I was mayor. If I don’t
close, if we, the City of Detroit don’t close that
deficit, 2,000 jobs are going to be lost in the
City of Detroit. There is no way I can have
recreation programs, there is no way I can cut
grass, clean streets. I will have to lay off
about 700 police officers and about 251
firefighters.

Facing that reality, what I’ve been doing for

six months is digging in and trying to get that
deal done…
I did violate the conditions of the bond
because I got a phone call that the
Windsor City Council that everything was
going off the rail and they were going to
back off the deal and the mayor and an
attorney over there called me.

It’s been presented that I went over there for

a couple of hours. The office that I went to,
and I know this is not important, is about 50
to 100 feet from the tunnel. I ran in, I made a
presentation, I took Anthony Adams and also
Kandia Milton who were there as well, and I
ran back. And we got the deal back on track.
We are now moving forward to close that final
deficit.

August 8, 2008 Detroit News Kilpatrick said he got a phone call from a
Windsor official the morning of July 23 that
the $75 million tunnel deal was falling apart.
He rounded up his security detail, his then-
deputy mayor Anthony Adams and Chief of
Staff Kandia Milton and then headed over in
his black Escalade…
Francis said that he never even considered
 that Kilpatrick could have been violating his
bond restrictions by meeting with him last
month. "This didn't even cross our minds,"
Francis said. "It's not even an issue for us to
consider."

August 8, 2008 Free Press Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick told a judge
he violated his bond last month by rushing
across the border after receiving an urgent
call from Windsor officials about the
controversial tunnel deal.

But that's not how the people on the other

side of the Detroit River remember it.
Windsor attorney Cliff Sutts, who hosted the
July 23 meeting with Mayor Eddie Francis
and others, recently told the Windsor Star
that Kilpatrick called the meeting. Sutts has
been Windsor's lead negotiator in the
proposed lease of Detroit's half of the Detroit-
Windsor Tunnel.
Reached Thursday by the Free Press,
Francis said: "Whatever comments have
been made by our lead legal adviser in the
past are comments that I stand behind."