The progressive publication "Michigan Messenger" reports Rep. John Conyers may be investigated in connection with the same scandal that snared his wife Monica, a Detroit City Council member. SEE http://tr.im/... His wife resigned her office today after having been convicted on Friday last. The 80 year old congressman who has been in office for forty plus years used to have a great liberal reputation. Conyers has been Chair of the House Judiciary Committee since right after the 2006 election.
The Messinger article says "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."
Conyers has been Chair of the House Judiciary Committee since right after the 2006 election. We wondered why he stonewalled impeachment activists for years, keeping Rep. Kucinich's many Bush/Cheney Impeachment Bills from ever being debated or brought up for a vote. Conyers failed to use his power to force Rove to testify and hasn't fought to enforce our Federal Anti-Torture Laws.
Rep. John Conyers, Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee has been in office for over 40 years. Can you say entrenched? Entitled? Or perhaps moribund.
Conyers has been a big disappointment to Impeachment and Torture Accountability advocates.
His Judiciary Committee is where impeachment of Bush and Cheney had to have started.
As Chairman Rep. Conyers controlled whether Impeachment would ever see debate or a vote in his Judiciary Committee. If an impeachment bill didn't get a fair hearing in his committee, it would never get an up or down vote in the full House. Did he single handedly block impeachment?
Conyers portrayed himself as the the leading advocate of Impeachment in the House, but 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?