Posted on 11/29/2017 6:00:29 PM PST by markomalley
In the end this may have been the only compromise available to Pelosi. She couldn’t force him to resign and his allies in the House may have resented any attempt to make him do so, knowing that it would have appeared as though he was stepping down in disgrace. Which, ah, he would have been.
So Conyers gets to finish out his two years, leaving on “his own terms” replete with plenty of pomp and circumstance in the House about his glorious legacy, and then he’s gone. And in the meantime Democrats get to cross their fingers and hope that there isn’t a drumbeat of new accusations against Conyers in the media over the next year that dilutes their “the GOP elected a predator in Roy Moore!” message for the midterms.
The funniest part of this? Conyers apparently plans to wait until just a few weeks after the Alabama election to make his move. If he announced his retirement beforehand, Dems might get a little credit from Alabama voters for trying to clear the bad guys out of Congress. In a very tight race, who knows how that might affect Moore’s support. As it is, no dice.
Sources told Local 4 that Conyers will not seek re-election for a new term in the wake of the scandal, which continues to grow.
Two sources close to the Conyers situation told Local 4’s Rod Meloni that the congressman won’t resign. It’s his intent to announce in January that he won’t run for re-election in 2018.
His lawyer insisted today that he won’t be forced out of office, although really he meant to say he won’t be forced out right now. Meanwhile, here’s a charming tidbit from this morning’s Democratic caucus meeting on sexual harassment via NYT reporter Robert Draper. It’s rare that a congressman says something so offensive that it makes you gasp. Even rarer is him doing it twice in one day:
Susan Smith is the South Carolina woman who locked her two young sons in her car in 1994, rolled it into a lake to drown them so that she’d be “free” to be with her lover, then told police that a black man had carjacked her and driven away with the boys in the backseat. She’s one of the most notorious child murderers in modern American history. This is the moral yardstick for which Clyburn reaches to measure the multiple allegations against Conyers, never mind that many, many more prominent white men in various fields have been accused of harassment by white women over the past two months than black men have. Clyburn is a race-baiter of longstanding, though, and he’s served in Congress alongside Conyers long enough — almost 25 years — that he’s surely heard whispers about his behavior before. This is how he reacts to a few women finally speaking up. He’s a disgrace. No wonder Kathleen Rice walked out of that caucus meeting this morning.
In lieu of an exit question, here’s a real political ad that’s currently running in Conyers’s home state of Michigan. There’ll be plenty of spots that reference the “Pervnado” next year but few quite like this.
Escape hatch...retirement...and that big fat pension and all the benees that go with it.
....he wants to beat the spending tax payer funds rap transporting victim s across state lines....
He gets a big fat pension......Cadillac benefits.....PLUS all he was able to launder and wire-transfer offshore.
Let’s hope his retirement is a short and painful one.
the longest serving house member would then be
Don Young
Republican
Alaska at-large
since March 6, 1973
Hannity just said Conyer’s office is refuting this resignation news, that he’ll stay and serve and fight the accusations.
He should go to prison (in his wife’s former cell) and lose his pension. What a crook.
Now its Franken’s turn to get out.
A Minnesota paper editorialized Franken’s “apology” ...didnt like it.....said it sounded like he’s sorry for what “you think I did.”
A DISCOURAGING WORD FOR DEMOCRAT AL “THE CUPPER” FRANKEN
Here’s a powerful anti-Democratic campaign issue just begging for 30-second TV spot ads.
Democrat Al Franken raised $26 million from Hollywood celebs. He gave $25 million and change to other Democrat candidates (a bribe to get these Democrats on his side).
Peckerwood’s under siege as the Perv capital of the world........and tone-deaf Franken’s sucking up money from the likes of Harvey Weinstein clones and giving it to Democrat campaigns?
Like voters are gonna love that.
“BTW Al, you can forget about your long-held dream of being president....that pic of you cupping the breasts of a sleeping woman is your lasting legacy as a politician.”
Good. Keep stinking up the House Democrats!
Actually, the Ethics Committee will expel him IMO.
This suggests Pelosi is trying to force him to retire, but Conyers is resisting. I hope he keeps fighting. It would be interesting to see if the Blacks of Detroit are so devoted to the Democratic Party that they would vote for an outed sexual predator. The answer sadly is "probably yes."
This is NOT acceptable. Not at all.
Conyers should be held to account for all his corruption, malfeasance, and now, criminal sexual behavior. I hope his victims come out of the woodworks now and drive this vomit out of DC.
Why wait?!
There’s no need to continue to talk about Congressman Conyers. He’s no longer on congress.
We need to find out who took taxpayer money to pay off their accusers. We need to put this in the media every single day. Even get Trump to make them reveal who is behind all of this.
Needs more time to spend with the family...LOL
January is too long for Representative John “Captain Underpants” Conyers to remain in Congress. Isn’t it great that the worst of the bottom feeders in the swamp are the first ones to be flushed down the drain?
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