After a rambling State of the City address that frequently veered off-script, Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is facing increasing pressure to resign amidst a widening investigation that includes allegations of perjury and brokering a secret $8.4 million settlement without the City Council’s knowledge.

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is the latest of high profile officials to add his voice to the chorus.

In an interview with a Detroit radio station earlier today, Cox, a Republican, called Kilpatrick a liar and denounced his rambling remarks at the State of the City address as “race-baiting on par with David Duke and George Wallace - all to save his political career.”

In his speech, Kilpatrick used the “n-word” and accused his opponents of operating with a “lynch-mob mentality.”

Kilpatrick, who took office in 2001 as the youngest mayor in Detroit’s history, is no stranger to media criticism, and has developed a reputation for - among other things - throwing lavish parties of dubious legality at the mayoral mansion. According to the Washington Times, this Monday a former Detroit police clerk announced that in 2002 “she saw a report from stripper Tamara Greene that describes a fight she had with the mayor’s wife, Carlita” at the mansion.

Greene was found shot to death in 2003 under mysterious circumstances.

The Detroit City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to formally ask Kilpatrick to step down. During this past Tuesday night’s speech, the Washington Times reports, “half of the council refused to sit onstage with Mr. Kilpatrick in a symbolic show of mounting concern over the scandal.”