Monica Conyers’ last day as Detroit councilwoman: July 6

Rep. John Conyers may be investigated in bribery case in which wife Monica is convicted.

This article else where in the Michigan Messenger by Ed Brayton http://tr.im/qcJK regarding “reports on new accusations coming from former Conyers aide Sam Riddle” explains how.

“The aide, Sam Riddle, said Conyers even helped draft a letter sent by her husband, Congressman John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., to help a man with whom she had financial ties. It is unclear whether John Conyers knew of his wife’s alleged link to the businessman.”

“The U.S. Attorney in charge of the investigation said last week that they had no evidence that John Conyers had been “knowingly or intentionally involved” in his wife’s corruption, but he also said that this is only the beginning of the indictments and that the corruption went much deeper than just Monica Conyers. With Riddle now on the record implicating the longtime Congressman, John Conyers finds himself clearly in the crosshairs of the investigation.”

Unfortunately Conyers has been a big disappointment to Impeachment and Torture Accountability advocates. Conyers portrayed himself as the the leading advocate of Impeachment in the House, but Conyers, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee blocked it for seven years and kept Rep. Kucinich's Bush-Cheney Impeachment Bills from ever being voted on. One of those Kucinich bills had more co-sponsors than were on the bill to impeach President Nixon in the 1970s.

There were millions of American voters begging for justice for Bush and Cheney for seven years. But Conyers had every excuse in the book why he just could not allow impeachment to be publicly debated or investigated in his committee.

Impeachment was something Conyers would be for when the GOP held total power, but when the Democrats took control of the US House he was no longer willing to allow debate in his Judiciary Committee. One moment he was for it and the next afraid of it. Or of Pelosi.

When our Constitution and rule of law needed his courage, he was scared of disobeying Speaker Pelosi's order to keep impeachment off the table.

An impeachment petition with over 1.1 Million Signatures was delivered to Conyers, but he had the activists accompanying its delivery that day arrested when they did a sit-in in his office. The activists were there because Conyers dithered and essentially Refused To Allow Debate Of Impeachment In His Judiciary Committee. He buried Rep. Kucinich's impeachment bills.

Did Chairman Conyers single handedly keep Bush and Cheney in Office? He wouldn't be the first congressmen to ruin his good works by failing to have the courage to do the most important things. In this case, to protect our Constitution as he agreed to do in his oath of office.

Does he owe an apology to the over 34,000 US Soldiers who were killed or maimed for NOTHING in the unnecessary IRAQ WAR? Especially the thousands killed or maimed after the 2006 election?

And then there is the matter of failing to enforce his subpoena to Karl Rove to testify. Did the neocons get a pass from Conyers or was he just too tired to enforce the subpoena.

You decide. Meanwhile

SIGN THE PETITION
To Prosecute Those Bush staffers who Tortured In Our Name
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

http://ANGRYVOTERS.ORG

Note: Rep. Conyers is also the champion of Single Payer in the House.
Given his performance on impeachment
What Chance has Single Payer?

What do you think?

Have you seen this?
According to an article in the Detroit News entitled

Group wants John Conyers investigated – Foundation questions ethics
in his support of injection well

SEE http://tr.im/sDXI

According to the article:

“Landmark (Legal Foundation) says that if John Conyers used his congressional clout for his wife, he violated House rules. “

“The public record indicates that Representative Conyers' actions not only may have violated House rules, they appear to have violated the federal bribery statute,” the complaint says.

“The $10,000 accepted by Mrs. Conyers appears to have been intended to secure Representative Conyers' influence to support permit transfers for a waste injection well. … Mrs. Conyers appeared to take an active role in securing her husband's influence,” the complaint adds.”

Riddle is said to have worked in the early 1990s as a spokesman for Monica Conyers' husband, U.S. Rep. John Conyers. This scandal may yet drag Rep. Conyers into the muck.