Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the youngest mayor of a big US city, has vetoed a City Council resolution asking Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to remove him from office.

In a 10-page veto message wrote on Tuesday, the 37-year-old "Hip-Hop Mayor" said that the resolution is an “end run around home rule” that may set the stage to deprive the People of the City of Detroit of their right to choose and retain its elected leaders and local control over policy matters that impact its citizens, the Detroit News reported.

The Detroit City Council voted 5-4 in early May to start a two-pronged approach to try to remove Kilpatrick from office. Two resolutions were approved: one to let Kilpatrick’s impeachment proceedings begin and another to ask Granholm to remove the embattled mayor in case the proceedings fail.

The hearing for the first impeachment will take place on June 13.

Kilpatrick vetoed only the second resolution, a move labeled as "lunacy" by Council attorney William Goodman, who said the mayor hasn’t got the power to veto the resolution according to the city charter, Detroit Free Press reported.

It all started as several members of Kilpatrick’s police security detail filed suit against the city after they were punished for investigating allegations of misconduct by the mayor and his bodyguards. The mayor and his chief of staff then testified last fall that they didn’t have an affair.

Then an $8.4-million settlement with the police officials was approved, but soon after that the Detroit Free Press released spicy parts from more than 14,000 text messages sent to and from Beatty's pager in 2002 and 2003.

A message such as "I'm madly in love with you" sent by Kilpatrick to Beatty, is surely in contradiction with the mayor’s testimony.