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You would think his campaign would have taken that into consideration.
Further, you’d think that 50 years would be enough and that the next generation (or the next, or the next) would be ready to lead the people of MI-13?
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I like Conyers.
Hell, the man was on Nixon’s enemy list-there’s a badge of honor.
I find it hard to believe he’s 84.
That would mean that I’m… uh…oh shit.
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Read about this yesterday. Unfortunately, this kind of thing happens all the time I’m told. It was a massive oversight not to check out that his signature-getters weren’t actually registered voters. I feel bad that this has happened. Conyers is truly one of the good guys. He’s had his difficulties, but in overall effectiveness in Congress, and his stance for economic justice while standing up for the little guy, he’s truly progressive from an old-school point of view. I think he was redistricted too, but people know Conyers well in SE MI. He’ll just have to run a more visible campaign that can take advantage of his incumbency, even if he is a write-in. A little self-deprecating humor would be good way to start out his campaign effort, explaining why someone would have to write-in a well-known figure such as himself in this district. He has to get past this somehow. Sorry to have to see him go that route though.
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As someone who PERSONALLY watched Issa hire a pack of hard-edged canvassers from the missions and shelters of Nevada, with NO California creds, to get signatures with dubious tactics and outright lies when he grubstaked the Gray Davis recall, this offends me terribly.
HYPOCRITES!!!
EQUAL PROTECTION has become a joke in modern day USA.
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Yeah, he’s got a little Charlie Rangel in him, but he’s been willing to put himself out there and fight the good fight for years.
I’ll take him any day.
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As I recall, I think its his wife that brought on most of his recent headaches. Older complaints involving him personally were ultimately resolved.
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Didn’t he play a little fast and loose using aides on the government payroll for personal business?
There is no better congressman than Conyers- none. I’d keep him to 100 than trade him in for, say, an Aaron Schock.
Yep. I think he had a couple of his staff babysit his kids and run unofficial personal errands for him or something too. But that was awhile back and he accepted responsibility for his wrongdoing. I can think of far worse things some of these House pols have done that go way beyond that, and have never faced an ethics committee review or accepted personal responsibility for anything even in the slightest.
Is his wife still in prison?
Of course, the Michigan law cited in this story wouldn’t apply, so I’m not sure what parallel you’re drawing between the two cases.
Maybe it’s just time to retire at the age of 84
mr conyers has been in office for a very long time and I am a believer of term limits so though I like mr conyers - that’s life
Given a choice between Conyers and Rangel, I’ll take Conyers. Rangel is as corrupt as it comes!
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I never suggested trading him for an Aaron Schlock…I was thinking like another young Democrat.
I am talking about the hypocritical way the media salivates over this, when they not only ignored but quite obviously avoided broadcasting aloud that Issa was defying state law in his attempts to take down Gray Davis. I was not referring to state law, but how public perception is manipulated, overlooking the worst offenses on the right and leaning hard into minor offenses on the left.They all knew it was happening in CA, some of us were screaming loudly in editorials that were never published, but still that illegal activity resulted in Schwartzenegger’s disastrous tenure. Look where that took them. Just because it is different states does not make it acceptable somehow for the media to abdicate its 4th Estate duties, and report Conyers’ mistake when they ignored Issa’s crime. Hypocrisy knows no state lines.
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I think something similar happened either two or four years ago. This is just political malpractice on Conyers’ part. I like him but this is just laziness.
Wasn’t saying you were. Just pointing out that youth per se is a indicator of about nothing. If Conyers were ineffective (beyond being a D in an R Congress of course), a political troglodyte, or doddering, than youth would be appealing. But Conyers is a great progressive congressman, and I don’t see why he should go.
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I guess when you get to be 84, you begin to suffer cognitive impairment and you make mistakes, like this.
It’s nature’s way of telling you, it’s time to retire.