Conyers son was a rapper before he went into (gag) "finance."
Posted on 12/08/2017 5:40:49 PM PST by Libloather
As for why Paterson did it, it’s a reliably Republican district. The Dems, state and national, wanted it left vacant as long as possible.
“AGREED! 48 Dems are now 47. “
That would be great, but this Black A$$hole was a Congressman not a Senator!
I hate to destroy the set-up to your joke, but that’s not what happened. Norris Cotton merely opted to retire (he didn’t die) in 1974. The race to succeed him was between Conservative Congressman Lou Wyman and leftist Democrat John Durkin. On Election Day, Republican Wyman won the race by 355 votes. Cotton resigned early and Gov. Meldrim Thomson appointed Wyman to take the seat early in the final days of the 93rd Congress. But Durkin and the Democrats wouldn’t let go and claimed their man had won, despite the NH Sec of State certifying Wyman the winner.
With a heavily Dem 94th Congress, they refused to seat Wyman for the new term and let it drag on for some time going back and forth. By August, Gov. Thomson considered the seat vacant and appointed ex-Sen. Cotton to the seat in August 1975 and he served about 5-6 weeks. To settle the mess, they called a new election and Wyman and Durkin ran again, with the increasingly anti-GOP sentiment running against Wyman, allowed Durkin his “win” that he couldn’t get in November 1974. He served until January 1981 and was defeated by the liberal RINO Warren Rudman.
Can the Governor not name a replacement of his choice?
No. A Governor cannot name appointments to House vacancies (only Senate vacancies where they’re permitted).
The one curious thing that this does....the whole staff in the DC office for Conyers...will be out of a job as he resigns. No one has a job at that point.
I wouldn’t weep for the staffers. They’ll easily find new jobs with other Congressmembers. If anything, we ought to be putting term limits on staffers and other gubmint employees, the real power behind the throne and Deep State operatives.
It’s been ‘Pretty Vacant’for a while now
Don’t recall the details, but I didn’t think it was a close vote.
On the other hand, it were two upstate GOP scumbags that betrayed the party on the marriage issue. My guess... graft.
One wonders if a year without Conyers will be better or worse than no representation at all.
Vacant for a year is like he never left. They need more time to get one of his relatives in
It been vacant since Conyers was elected, so why not a few more months....?
It is wrong to deny the folks representation, in principal if nothing else. The fiscial argument against the special election sounds reasonable on the surface. I do wonder if the real reason the Dems are not opposing the vacancy is to allow them time to install the next apparatchik. I suspect the Dem machine will squash a few of the young whippersnappers dreams, letting them know that elections are useless, there is a hierarchy as to who ascends to the seat. Another plus is no Dem vs Dem mudslinging in a special election or the extra expense, depleting their coffers.
What you Dem politicians have done to Detroit is unfair to residents...and criminal.
Conyers son was a rapper before he went into (gag) "finance."
the eventual representative from this district will vote along with most of house Democrats on every issue.
And might get redistricted out of office following 2021 / 2022 redistricting when MI loses a set in Congress?
RINO Rick would NEVER appoint a Republican in Conyers district. I’m just glad he’s not calling for a special election next month or worse, appoint a democrat. I’m happy with the outcome considering the alternatives.
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