The Other Conyers Bombshell That Was An Open Secret: A Top Congressman’s Deteriorating Mental Health
Michigan newspaper The News Herald deemed Conyers unfit to hold office in a 2014 editorial. “Accounts of the 84-year-old’s seeming disinterest in the job or downright absentmindedness aren’t hard to come by,” the column stated.
“Conyers is no longer fit to serve, and those close to him must know it,” Detroit News columnist Nolan Finley wrote the same year.
“I don’t know whether he has dementia, Alzheimer’s, senility or some other form of diminished mental capacity,” Finley added. “It’s just clear that he’s not quite right.”
A New York Times article last week noted that Conyers has “already handed over much of the day-to-day committee work to staff aides and other Democratic members in recent years, and has often appeared disoriented.”
“In at least two separate occasions — once at a United Automobile Workers event in Michigan and once at a meeting of top Democrats on Capitol Hill — Mr. Conyers showed up wearing pajamas, according to two people familiar with the incidents,” the Times reported. Conyers’ office denied that report.
Business Insider editor Josh Barro noted that Conyers is “widely reputed to be losing his mental faculties.” ABC News’ Terry Moran described Conyers as having “sharply declining mental capacities.”
There are other cover-ups which have taken place over the years involving Conyers.
It has been decades, but I remember a double homicide on Detroit’s south side, where 3-4 people were killed in a drug deal gone bad, outside of a notorious “Adult Night Club”.
While later covered up, at the time, it was learned Dingell, Conyers, and a couple other city counsel members jointly owned a chain of drug infested strip clubs throughout Detroit!
John Dingell and Conyers were true Democrat entrepreneurs for sure!
Wonder how many years the old coot has had dementia? I’d dearly love to know who has their Alzheimer’s medication delivered to the Congress (other than Conyers). What a snake pit!
This is probably the reason for the Democrat's "Trump has dementia" meme. They are great at projecting.