It's Not Just Personal Anymore

Heaven forbid that our elected officials have any obligation to answer to us. It must just be a coincidence that John reversed his opposition to the well about the time his wife, Monica was making deals with Papas, the well's operator.

This is just another case of - The People Don't Matter!
The citizens of Romulus and Taylor fought against this toxic injection well for years back in the '90's and they lost. And the above ground storage equipment, ruled as perfectly safe by our brillant politicians, leaked thousands of gallons of deadly poisons onto the ground forcing the operation to be shut down. And now the honorable John Conyers supports reopening it while his corrupt wife makes deals under the table and he doesn't owe anyone an explanation?

The trial isn't the first time this came out. The Free Press wrote about the letter sometime last year.

The question insults Congressman Conyers and those of us who believe in the basic principles that silence is not guilt and innocent people are under no obligation to prove they are ..

Allegations and fiction are the tools of tabloid journalism. False interferences based upon hearsay are the trademarks of a failed criminal justice system .

Congressman Conyers is granted the same rights and privledges every citizen of our nation has under the US Consitution shallow efforts to tar and slander him because of the deeds of another are wrong .

In our nation if one is unhappy with an elected offical we have elections not media driven campaigns that seek to disenfranchise elected public officals..

Congressman Conyers has already issued a statement about his wife that is enough for me..

Consider that it is possible to marry a woman and not know what the hell she is doing.

And that it can be very painful to ultimately find out.

I think the fact that he married this woman and she rode into office on his coattails - and he helped her get elected - means that on some level he is culpable.

Whatever his reasons for marrying her, he gave her the Conyers name and she exploited it. The fact that he does nothing but run away from addressing the issue is, frankly, cowardly.

It is a shame that all of this is happening to the people we trusted to "run" our cities, counties, and states. Detroit has been under the microscope for so long that is getting to the point where we almost expect every one to be guilty of something. That in its self is sad. I would hope that he is not guilty of conspiring, and I'm sure we will all find out soon enough.

Funny thing is that there was no mention in the local news that I could find about Curt Dumas who violated city policy when he failed to record $19,143 in revenue received during a two-year period through scrap metal sales. only in the sentinal was their mention of it.

Political corruption is running rampant and i seems to be spreading with out consequence to those that commit the crimes. The ongoing court appearances are more of a pony show in seems.

Nonsense gthrasher. It is Congressman John Conyers who insults us. He works for and is accountable to the people who put him in office. This is particularly true when he is involved with the same individual who paid his corrupt wife an obvious bribe for her influence.

This country is over run with corrupt politicians because of people like you who look the other way.

It is people like me who value the US Consitution that makes our nation great...Folks like you who indict people with rumor and cheap tabloid driven speculation is what makes it tough for real americans like me....

Congressman Conyers is under no obligation to appeal to your sleazy invasion of his privacy...We are a nation of laws not rumor and guilt by association!!!!

The sad fact of the matter is that Detroit is inhabited by a cutlure of low standards and amoral behavior. The city is also inhabited by an electorate that rarely votes. Many of the citizens of this city are too immersed in the daily struggle to eat to hold politicians like Congressman Conyers accountable.
There is obviously a lack of responsible, moral leadership that holds the interests of the citizens in higher regard that the desire to gain politically.

There is no question that Congressman Conyers owes those he serves an explanation. To say that he does not is ridiculous. His wife is headed to prison. While II am not interested in the deeply personal details of their eventual separation, I do want to know if the Congressman from Detroit played any role in Monica's scheme to benefit personally at the expense of those she and her husband are supposed to serve.

Detroit is no different from the rest of the state with regard to low standards and amoral behavior. In most suburban and rural venus the voting turnout is dismal especially for critical elections like school board vacancies...

Please enough of the scapegoating and race card comments..

Congressman Conyers is not under oath nor is he compelled to provide any statements or explanations about his wife affairs..

Guilt by association reflects low standards and amoral behavior....

Race card? What are you talking about? What need would anyone have to use a race card when discussing the poorest and most segregated city in America?

Congressman Conyers is a public servant whose integrity is in question because of documents that suggest he assisted his wife with her attempts to benefit personally at the expense of a city and citizens who can hardly afford to give up anything.

Congressman Conyers has earned a reputation of fighting for those who have no voice; of holding leaders to a higher standard than that of the "regular" citizen and of speaking truth to power. His reputation alone should compell him to say something...anything to those citizens he has served so well and for so long.

There are no documents which exist which suggested he assisted his wife if these docuemnts exists Conyers would have been indicted!!

In fact because of John's legacy his statement about his wife was more than enough...

With regard to the "race card"it is a instrument created by whites often inserted and employed by whites to demonize Detroit or any venues where Black people live.It is a legacy of white supremacy./privledge in our nation it still wounds and harms progressive relations between whites and black in our nation not just this area..