Wrong.  I guess.  The mayor's communications team jumped all over The Hill when they went to print flatly denying that the boy in the picture is Kwame Kilpatrick.  Only problem is the DC paper tracked down other kids in the picture and they each confirm, independently, that that is indeed hizzoner.  Right school.  Right year.  Right play.  Tons of witnesses.  Flat, unequivocal denials?  Why?

They've turned this into a giant issue that's spilled over, now, into the Detroit News:

By reacting strongly to the photo, the mayor's press officer made a story of something that few otherwise would have noticed, said Fred Marx, a Farmington Hills public relations consultant.

The photo, forwarded to The Hill by a former classmate of Kilpatrick's, initially ran alone under the headline, "The mayor in drag." Tolliver's reaction caused the newspaper to launch an investigation into a 24-year-old school play.

"This is a no-brainer -- you don't pick the scab," Marx said. "In protesting and making an issue of it, you've made it a story."

The Kilpatrick staff's handling of the issue isn't just ugly... it's fugly.  (That's... umm... freaking ugly.)  What with all of these text messages flying in the face of sworn testimony in various courts of law one might get the impression that Kwame has a problem with the truth.  Fancy that.

The bad--

The Ivory Tower reports this morning that the Michigan Democrat State Central Planning Committee put down their little red books long enough yesterday to discuss, en masse, the various proposals floating around that might, some way, some how, lead to a seating of the State's Dem delegation at the national nominating convention in Denver.  And they found one they like.  The Gettelfinger / Levin plan that splits the difference between Hill-Rod and The baRock, granting 69 delegates to Clinton and 59 to Obama and leaving the 29 super delegates free and clear to choose whoever they'd like.

To read the headlines in the FREEP and the Detroit News you'd think this was a major step forward... like the DNC was just waiting for MDP to get it's act together.  Unfortunately for millions of Michigan voters, in this instance it's the candidates themselves practicing voter disenfranchisement.

Party officials in Michigan and nationally have been clamoring for a way to seat the delegation, figuring they could severely hurt their chances of winning in November if somehow those two states -- rich in electoral college votes -- were left out of the mix at the Denver convention. Michigan has voted Democrat in presidential elections since 1992.

National party officials have made it clear the campaigns needed to agree on a Michigan solution...

It was still unclear whether Clinton's team would accept such a proposal. She earlier rejected the 69-59 plan.

We told you about that HERE.

So... bad job, MDP.  Way to settle on a plan that one of the candidates has already flatly rejected and that the other candidate has zero personal self interest in going along with when the only solution is getting them BOTH to agree.  

If there's a battle heading into the convention things don't look good for Michigan.  Funny the way things work out.  Jennifer Granholm endorsed Hillary Clinton but it looks like the only way Granholm avoids pushing Michigan further away from solid-blue status is if her candidate drops out of the race.  Gotta love disenfranchisement politics.