This is the difference between Democrats and Republicans right now. We push ours sexual offenders out, while they look to elect Moore of their own.
That said, it is very sad that a man of Conyers’ accomplishments – which are legion and have dramatically improved the lives of millions – has to go out this way.
“Whatever they are, they are not accurate,” he said of the accusations from several former staffers. “I think they’re something that I can’t explain where they came from.”
Huh?
I hope that he is sued so he can find out how accurate they are.
He is a dirty old man who apparently preyed on his staff. Good time for him to retire.
I’m glad he (finally) did the right thing. That said, this could get ugly(er) for the Democrats and the nation.
We need to focus on removing TEMPTATION from the workplace. Mrs Pence should be in charge of that program.
Yes, I’m not wild about the dynastic thing happening here again. He now wants his son to finish out the term, and his great-nephew will run for his seat next year. I thought the Bushes, Clintons, and Kennedys were more than enough of that.
I figured that this was coming. It is the right thing for him to do.
And we just had a primary election last month where Coleman Young Jr. tried (and failed) to become mayor of Detroit, the same position Coleman Young Sr. held for 20+ years.
Election to a congressional seat held by a parent or older relative is a pretty old and common theme in our history. I don’t have much trouble with it in the legislative branch. In the executive branch, it historically raises red flags because we were formed in opposition to aristocracy and monarchy and for our first century, that was the primary opposing ideology we used to define what we aren’t and what we’re against. But even there we had John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and then William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison.
I just hope that we see more candidates who aren’t just taking over the family “business.” In Virginia, a lot of people got energized in the wake of Trump’s election and ran Democrats in districts against Republican candidates who weren’t used to being opposed and actually won. We can do this!
I get the concern. But people raised in political families often get interested in politics the way people raised in families with a lot of lawyers, doctors, career military, police, firemen, and, yeah, even academics, get interested. Not invariable. Not even the majority. But it’s pretty common. (Probably more common to develop a revulsion to whatever the family tradition is, but we never hear about those people).
I do think it often also results in people who were pressured into it rather than catching the bug and wanting to do it, and they tend to be pretty miserable for the first twenty years or so of it.
This guy’s not a dirty old man in the best sense, maybe just a dirty young man, who’s in the California State legislature and is being sued for what he did to a Sacramento lobbyist who’s finally named him after having described a while back that these events happened.
Pamela Lopez accused Assemblyman Matt Dababneh, D-Encino (Los Angeles County), of pushing his way into a bathroom with her last year and trying to get her to touch his exposed genitals and masturbated in front of her… Dababneh quickly denied the allegations, claiming they are false.
@ronbyers @blandsten
There are a number of CA state legislators that have been accused of assaults and are resigning, all Democrats.
Good! One less predator and liar among the scum of Congress.
“Whatever they are, they are not accurate,” he said of the accusations from several former staffers. “I think they’re something that I can’t explain where they came from.”
They probably came from the same place where the taxpayers had to shell out big bucks to settle the harassment claims against you.
This obsession guys have with their own dicks is bizarre. I get it, it’s a man thing since the dawn of time, but FFS, they do some crazy shit just get that little fella some attention. It should be embarrassing but apparently not.
It’s sad that Conyers never learned better (and that the whole environment he was in during his career never taught him better). When he started in congress this kind of disgusting behavior wouldn’t even have raised eyebrows. Which is not to say it’s anywhere near OK for him to have done these things, but #NotJustConyers.
I asked the one man I know very well and for a long time who’s never done anything like this or even thought about it, and he could only guess it’s political power or what these guys perceive is their power. Since the CA state legislature is majority Dems, it’s these guys who are being caught in the act. And it’s going to affect the Assembly Speaker de Leon who imagines he’s going to challenge Feinstein for her Senate next year. I say, “Good luck with that, Kevin.”
Just what American Politics “Needs” so much. A situation where seats in Congress take on a dynastic quality to their succession. I wonder which member of the family Mc Cain will get “his” Senate seat when the time comes?
This is why you can’t get people interested in running for Public Office. Because the average person takes a look at the game, winces, knowing the game is RIGGED and decides that their time would be better spent doing something sensible, like trying to hop from one side of the Grand Canyon to the other on a rocket-powered pogo stick.
yeah - but
in this case while being pushed out Conyers is attempting to anoint his baggage laden & inexperienced son as his heir -
Conyers III, 27, has never held elected office and caused an ethics problem in late 2010. The congressman had to reimburse the U.S. Treasury $5,682 for his son’s misuse of his taxpayer-funded Cadillac Escalade.
- potentially unforced error in the making!