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Conyers Aides Say He Used Them as Servants
Townhall.com ^ | 3/2/06

Posted on 03/03/2006 9:21:14 PM PST by LdSentinal

Three former aides to U.S. Rep. John Conyers say the lawmaker used them as baby sitters and personal servants while they were supposed to be working in his Michigan offices.

The aides said that Conyers had them tutor and care for his two sons; help his wife, now-City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, with law studies; and drive him to political and private events.

The accusations come from Deanna Maher, former chief of Conyers' office in Southgate; Sydney Rooks, Conyers' lawyer from 1997 to 2000; and Dean Christian Thornton, a legislative aide fired in January, according to the Detroit Free Press.

Maker said that in 1998, Conyers ordered her to live in his Detroit house while his wife attended law classes in Oklahoma. Maher said she lived there for six weeks, caring for the couple's two young sons.

Maher and Thornton have written to the House Ethics Committee. Rooks said she talked to committee staffers on the subject in 1999 and 2004 and plans to make a formal complaint soon.

"I'm not going to get into responding to these things," said Stanley Brand, an attorney for Conyers.

Brand said Conyers responded to ethics committee questions when it considered some of the same allegations two years ago.

Conyers, 76, has served in the House since 1965. The Democrat is the senior minority member of the House Judiciary Committee.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: 109th; abuse; aides; conyers; corruption; ethics; fraud; johnconyers; michigan; servants; shock
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1 posted on 03/03/2006 9:21:18 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal

Isn't Conyers kinda a known Commie?


2 posted on 03/03/2006 9:21:59 PM PST by goodnesswins ( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
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To: LdSentinal

Conyers is a slavemaster, running his office like a plantation.
But the slaves love him. He must be a kindly master.


3 posted on 03/03/2006 9:23:37 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: LdSentinal

priceless


4 posted on 03/03/2006 9:23:51 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: LdSentinal

Shocking.


5 posted on 03/03/2006 9:24:02 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: LdSentinal

And they stayed because........?


6 posted on 03/03/2006 9:24:30 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: LdSentinal

Why should it surprise anyone that a left wing democrat is a corrupt scumbag? They are despicable people.


7 posted on 03/03/2006 9:24:34 PM PST by Williams
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LOL...Conyers has given us a refined definition of life on the "Plantation".

Hello, Hildebeast! *S*
8 posted on 03/03/2006 9:24:59 PM PST by dk/coro
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To: LdSentinal
Maker said that in 1998, Conyers ordered her to live in his Detroit house while his wife attended law classes in Oklahoma. Maher said she lived there for six weeks, caring for the couple's two young sons.

I have a hard time being symapthetic to this lady. Conyers is a total POS and has certainly run afoul of ethic laws, but she could have said no and walked. There's no collar around her neck.

9 posted on 03/03/2006 9:26:18 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Islam's true face: http://makeashorterlink.com/?J169127BC)
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To: goodnesswins

Yes, he reigns as the socialist congressman, decades in office in the biggest ghetto in America. A large part of a the biggest wasteland, commonly known as Detroit.


10 posted on 03/03/2006 9:26:49 PM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect, it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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11 posted on 03/03/2006 9:27:53 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: LdSentinal

Guarantee this happens in numerous offices -- Democrat and Republican.


12 posted on 03/03/2006 9:28:16 PM PST by Gone GF
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To: LdSentinal

Send him a bill from the American taxpayer.


13 posted on 03/03/2006 9:28:20 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Very nice graphic, Jim


14 posted on 03/03/2006 9:29:07 PM PST by indcons (The MSM - Mainstream Slime Merchants)
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To: LdSentinal

A Congressman abusing his aides? Unbelievable.


15 posted on 03/03/2006 9:30:25 PM PST by kenth (Phil! Phil Connors! I thought that was you!)
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To: LdSentinal
HERE is another story from today about this clown Conyers.
From the story:

She (Rooks) told The Hill that she tutored “Little John,” as Conyers’s elder son is known, when he was a student at the Cranbrook School, a private school in Bloomfield Hills.

Gee, I wonder what Conyers thinks about school vouchers.
John Conyers is one sick animal. Of course, the scumbag IS your typical Democrat. . . .

16 posted on 03/03/2006 9:31:18 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: CindyDawg

It looks pretty good on a resume to say 'Former Congressional Aid'.

And if you are working at his home office, there probably isn't all that much to do either.


17 posted on 03/03/2006 9:31:30 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: LdSentinal
caring for the couple's two young sons.

IIRC, these two sons attend a very expensive private school.
No public school for John Conyer's kids, nosiree!

And I think there was some question of how Conyers can afford to send
two kids to this school on his salary. I think the cost is something
like $25,000/year/child.
18 posted on 03/03/2006 9:32:26 PM PST by VOA
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To: LdSentinal

Another example of the Democrat Party's "culture of corruption".


19 posted on 03/03/2006 9:32:54 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: LdSentinal

More of tha tliberal compassion, I guess.


20 posted on 03/03/2006 9:33:01 PM PST by TBP
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