As you can see in our primary night scoreboard down to the lower right, incumbent Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (D-MI) has lost her primary for renomination to state Sen. Hansen Clarke (D). A complicated story, but certainly a huge amount of Kilpatrick’s problems stemmed from the endless and endlessly comic (thank you for the page views, Kwame) scandals of son and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and (now-ex) husband Bernard Kilpatrick. I’m not sure whether to put this into the category of signs of the broader electoral ferment in the land or that Detroit voters are just incredibly embarrassed that Kwame Kilpatrick was ever their Mayor and don’t want to be associated anymore with anyone related to him.
The winner of the primary and presumably Kilpatrick’s successor (since this is an overwhelmingly Dem district) is Hansen Clarke, the son of a Bangledeshi father and African-American mother. He’s 53.
