Posted on 11/26/2017 9:57:39 AM PST by jazusamo
Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) announced he is stepping aside as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.
“After careful consideration and in light of the attention drawn by recent allegations made against me, I have notified the Democratic Leader of my request to step aside as Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of these matters," he said in a statement on Sunday.
“I deny these allegations, many of which were raised by documents reportedly paid for by a partisan alt-right blogger. I very much look forward to vindicating myself and my family before the House Committee on Ethics," he added.
Conyers's attorney last week maintained that the lawmaker would not resign from the post as the House Ethics Committee investigates into the allegations.
The Ethics Committee opened an investigation into Conyers after BuzzFeed News reported last week that Conyers settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 with a former employee who alleged she was fired because she would not "succumb to [his] sexual advances."
Other staffers alleged that he made requests for sexual favors, inappropriately touched staffers and used congressional resources to transport women that they believed he was having sexual relationships with at the time.
Shortly the report was published, another woman came forward with allegations that the lawmaker harassed and verbally abused her while she worked for him in the 1990s.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in statement about Conyers's decision to step aside stressed that “zero tolerance means consequences.”
“We must ensure the Congress has a climate of dignity and respect with zero tolerance,” she added.
During an appearance earlier Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Pelosi called Conyers an "icon" who deserves "due process."
Conyers, the longest-serving member of the House, has said he will "fully cooperate" with the Ethics Committee's investigation.
His announcement came after several Democratic lawmakers called for him to step down from his powerful post.
One of his House colleagues, Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) on Friday, also called for the Michigan lawmaker to resign amid the allegations.
--This report was updated at 12:48 p.m.
Less clues than a bag of hair.
“Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) announced he is stepping aside as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.”
Well it’s a start!!!
Why is it always the source of the information instead of the information provided by the source?
I’m a Floridian. Lois was really a true dirtbag when she was mayor of west palm beach and continues her dirtbaggedness to this day at a federal level.
The fix must be in. No Democrat in recent memory ever stepped down or aside for anyone or anything unless it was purely for appearances or a move to a bigger end-game. I expect that the new ranking Democrat on his committee will be deferential to Conyers to the point of obsequiousness!
Couldn’t agree more, it should be Nadler and he and Conyers are joined at the hip.
Again, if these would’ve been Republicans, they would’ve already been frogmarched out of DC...by Midge/Lyin and the RINO gang.
This government needs an enema of galactic proportions.
Ahhhh yes... ‘stepping down’ but not out, off, away, or anything else. He will still have all the perks. Reminds me of Senator Feinstein when it was revealed that she had been funneling BILLIONS of federal dollars to herself and her husband. She ‘stepped down’ as head of the committee she used to funnel all the taxpayer dollars, but she, of course, KEPT all the money, and the Senatorial perks.
Creepozoids All.
Wouldn’t that be romantic. True love there...LOL!
Conyers left a mile-wide paper trail of payoffs, tax dollars spent to fly-in women for sex romps, tax monies spent to silence victims, etc etc etc.......
No one would ever find out. All of this was done so casually, so matter-of-factly.......the stupid Dems KNEW Hillary was a shoo.in.
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