Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 05/12/2014 7:22:25 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson
Longtime Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) didn’t submit enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot this year, Wayne County, Michigan, officials said in a report released on Friday.
Conyers, who has represented Detroit in the House for 49 years, came up more than 400 signatures shy of qualifying for the ballot because his signature-gatherers were not registered voters, according to the Detroit News.
A final report is due next Tuesday. Conyers’ legal team is expected to appeal the ruling later this week.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
He’s a Democrat and an oppressed minority—Laws don’t apply to him.
What do you want to bet that they’ll seek a waver of the rules because of his protected status?
Yep, he’s a shoe in for re-election.
He’s not even worried.
reads like he can run in his sleep as a write in and get re-elected
Conyers isn’t the only unqualified ‘RAT politician running around out there giving away the taxpayers’ money.
Idiot.
Though I expect him to run as a write-in.
Racism. He is a victim of white privilege
True, this would be questioned if it was a Republican, so maybe I'm just clarifying how they will not have the law applied.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/john-conyers-petition-worker-is-fugitive
If they discard misspelled “Conyers” he will have less than a 50/50 chance in his district, but then “voter intent” will rear its ugly head if it’s close.
That’s a shaky bet these days. After all the current mayor Mike Duggan (the white guy) ran a write in campaign and beat Benny Napoleon (the black guy) to the general election ballot and won anyway.
Detroit is getting a lot of oversight from the state and they know it.
It is a sin that this jackass has been in DC for 49 years.
Hey 0bama shouldn’t have been on the ballot for the past two elections, but we see how that went.
I guess all his voters moved, died or woke up.....................
This doesn’t just happen. Not to a Democrat, unless the Democrat power brokers want to get rid of Conyers and replace him with someone else.
Don’t pop those champagne corks just yet. From the original Detroit News article:
the Conyers campaign has insisted it has paperwork showing Pennington and Willis-Pittman submitted their voter registration papers on Dec. 13 — not on April 28, as state records now show.
Included in Friday’s report were two letters dated April 30 written to Pennington and Willis-Pittman by Detroit Elections Director Willie G. Wesley Jr. saying the clerk who received the pair’s voter registrations “erroneously” entered the date of Dec. 13, 2013, into the Qualified Voter File database.
“The date of registration should be the date the application was received at our office,” the two-paragraph letters read, adding the voter file has been corrected to reflect the date the applications were received — April 28.
No problemo. Something will show up in the trunk of some car.
that was not erroneous... the clerk retro-dated it... notice it is right as they began collecting signatures...
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