Excellent article! But it failed to mention Mr. Conyer's blossoming acting career.One more thing.
John Conyers often comments that people who have been covicted of a felony cannot vote in Michigan. This is a blatent LIE. I am a convicted felon and a legal voter. Under Michigan law any legal resident over 18 may vote as long as they are not currently incarcerated, on parole or probation.
Conyers true goal is for prison inmates to vote.
Shine that light, the MSM certainly won't.
I swear. Listen to him.
He was outside the White House gates last night trying to deliver a "petition" to the guards there on the DSM.
We chanted "Conyers is a phony" to him and about 100 of his supporters.
It was like swatting a hornet's nest.
*interesting read ping*
It may also be stated that Conyers district(s) that he has represented over the past 40 years has lost more people than any other district in the U.S. The phrase "votes with ones feet" most certainly applies here. Conyers is a sad, pathetic relic and very much a willing tool of the radical anti-American haters. It's sad we no longer arrest people for treason and sedition.
His district has a higher proportion of Muslims than any other in Congress, and his official congressional web site can be read in Arabic
That was only recently with the 2002 redistricting. Until then, East Dearborn was represented by John Dingell (For 40+ years). Dingell now only has West Dearborn where he lives. I'm not sure if Hamtramck was Conyers or Kilpatrick country. I know that Conyers has had West Detroit since Detroit went from three reps to two.
This district, slightly redrawn since the 2000 Census, has had an electorate 61 percent African-American and in 2000 cast 81 percent of its votes for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore. In 2004 Conyers won re-election with 84 percent of the vote, approximately 11 percent more than Democratic standard bearer Senator John F. Kerry drew here in Wayne County.
That was because of Detroit. Detroit went 93% for Kerry and Gore. Dearborn went 58% for Kerry(and Bush won it in 2000). One other thing that needs to be mentioned is that Detroit and Dearborn do not get along. The blacks and whites there for years were not fond of one another, and the blacks and Arabs there do not get along that well either. There's a lot of regional Detroit dynamics in effect. All Conyers cares about is what the City of Detroit thinks - which is what most of his district covers. The burbs in his district, including East Dearborn, have no representation.
Whether Conyers voted against this resolution because he represents more Arab-Americans than any other Member of Congress,
In March 2002? That most likely isn't possible. The redistrict battles were still going on at that time and the representatives might not have known what their district would look like. Conyers did not represent East Dearborn until late 2002.
I saw part of his panel discussing the downing street memo on CSAPN last night... The man had no clue where he was or who was sitting next to him. Senile members of congress should be removed.