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Pelosi Defends Conyers, Says He’s ‘An Icon’
Daily Caller ^ | 11/26/17 | Alex Pfeiffer

Posted on 11/26/2017 8:37:07 AM PST by markomalley

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi defended embattled Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers Sunday, calling the 88-year-old congressman “an icon.”

NBC’s Chuck Todd asked Pelosi on “Meet the Press” Sunday whether Conyers, who faces sexual harassment allegations, should be “in or out” of Congress.

“We are strengthened by due process. Just because someone is accused — and was it one accusation? Is it two?” Pelosi replied. “John Conyers is an icon in our country. He has done a great deal to protect women — Violence Against Women Act, which the left — right-wing — is now quoting me as praising him for his work on that, and he did great work on that.”

The congresswoman continued on to say that she believes Conyers “will do the right thing.”

It was revealed last week that taxpayers footed the bill for a $27,000 settlement for a staffer of Conyers that claimed the Michigan Democrat made sexual advances on her and fired her after she wouldn’t “succumb” to them.

“In her complaint, the former employee said Conyers repeatedly asked her for sexual favors and often asked her to join him in a hotel room. On one occasion, she alleges that Conyers asked her to work out of his room for the evening, but when she arrived the congressman started talking about his sexual desires,” BuzzFeed revealed in its report. “She alleged he then told her she needed to ‘touch it,’ in reference to his penis, or find him a woman who would meet his sexual demands.”

The report said that four signed affidavits from former staff members said that Conyers made sexual advances on female staff.

Additionally, Melanie Sloan, a lawyer who worked with Conyers, said that she would encounter the congressman in his office “walking around in his underwear.” And a former staffer, who anonymously filed and then withdrew a lawsuit, said that Conyers touched her “repeatedly and daily” from May to to July 2016.

Conyers, the longest serving congressman, has denied all sexual harassment allegations against him.

The House Ethics Committee has launched a probe into Conyers’ alleged misconduct. The accusations against him come against the backdrop of a wave of prominent men being accused of sexual misdeeds including Democratic Sen. Al Franken, Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore and newsman Charlie Rose.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: California; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: california; draintheswamp; johnconyers; melaniesloan; michigan; nancypelosi
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To: markomalley
OTHER DEMOCRATIC ICONS:

Ted Kennedy - " Lyin' " of the Senate

Robert Byrd - " Kleagle " of the Senate

21 posted on 11/26/2017 9:34:09 AM PST by Optimist
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To: markomalley

Democrat party is the Immunity party. The “Immunocrats” has a nice but disgusting ring to it.


22 posted on 11/26/2017 9:50:57 AM PST by FlipWilson (The)
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To: Ahnie

The Republicans should be screaming what you posted. IF, and it’s a HUGE if, there’s a republican who has a clean closet. And the fact that no Republicans are condemning Conyers, or even Weinstein, yet they condemn Roy Moore, tells me there are no clean Republicans.


23 posted on 11/26/2017 9:54:56 AM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: markomalley
It's true. lol, he is an I CON. Speaking to himself.

He is one, and, he does so.

24 posted on 11/26/2017 9:56:52 AM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: morphing libertarian

>>>”... idiot long before the new crop Sheila>>>”

Pour me another tequila, Sheila ~ Bobby Bare ~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIcVXp_iOBs&list=RDaIcVXp_iOBs#t=23


25 posted on 11/26/2017 10:06:03 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: Optimist

How did you overlook Icon Congressman Gerry Studds?


26 posted on 11/26/2017 10:22:54 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: GOPJ
Pelosi “John Conyers is an icon. He has done a great deal to protect women — Violence Against Women Act - he did great work on that.”

Appears the "icon" is an oversexed manipulative con artist.

Doing great work on violence against women laws DOES NOT GIVE CONYERS A LICENSE TO DEMAND SEX FROM HIS STAFF.

27 posted on 11/26/2017 10:23:32 AM PST by Liz (Liberals are incapable of governing or practicing journalism in a normal American way.)
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To: GOPJ; HarleyLady27; Jane Long; RitaOK; MinuteGal; Ann Archy; Maggie G.; NYer; Tennessee Nana; ...

One of his former employees recounted how “icon” Conyers repeatedly asked her for sexual favors and often asked her to join him in a hotel room.

She alleges Conyers asked her to work out of his room for the evening, but when she arrived the “icon” started talking about his sexual desires.

Conyers then told her she needed to ‘touch it, (his penis) and that she was to find him a woman who would meet his sexual demands.” (hat tip BuzzFeed report)


28 posted on 11/26/2017 10:29:48 AM PST by Liz (Liberals are incapable of governing or practicing journalism in a normal American way.)
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To: markomalley

Pelosi’s turn ons - 88 year olds in their whitey tighties.


29 posted on 11/26/2017 10:30:42 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: markomalley

A Viagra bulge in his tighty-whiteys is NOT an Icon Pelosi.


30 posted on 11/26/2017 10:33:51 AM PST by redcatcherb412 (Emerged intact.)
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To: markomalley

Yes, I read this story. Oh man, she’s beyond bad.


31 posted on 11/26/2017 10:46:04 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Leaning Right
Of course Pelosi doesn't think Roy Moore deserves due process for two reasons.

First, he's a Republican. Game over. Resign now. Hanging is scheduled today. The trial is scheduled for tomorrow.

Second, the democRATS have their talking points on Moore whittled down to these few words: "He's a child molester." And yet, curiously, none of the accusations against him allege child molestation.

Funny how that works....

32 posted on 11/26/2017 10:47:43 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: markomalley

Defending bad people, as always. When does the bug-eyed monster retire?


33 posted on 11/26/2017 10:48:17 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: Liz
Appears the "icon" is an oversexed manipulative con artist. Doing great work on violence against women laws...

Hollywood abusers got a pass from the FBI and the press because they had a "D" by their names, donated to liberals, and backed 'women's issues - meaning abortion' and fake 'laws' for women - - laws they never followed.

34 posted on 11/26/2017 10:48:19 AM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: markomalley

Pelosi is getting more delusional by the Day. She says she is for women but how is Conyers actions anything but anti women? Conyers has been in DC for 50 years and needs to be retired and possibly sued for his actions.


35 posted on 11/26/2017 10:48:55 AM PST by Metrobank
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To: Liz
Appears the "icon" is an oversexed manipulative con artist. Doing great work on violence against women laws...

Hollywood abusers got a pass from the FBI and the press because they had a "D" by their names, donated to liberals, and backed 'women's issues - meaning abortion' and fake 'laws' for women - - laws they never followed. Congress gave themselves the same passes they gave Hollywood and the Press...

It's the called the Swamp for a reason... dark, dank and filled with creepy things.

36 posted on 11/26/2017 10:49:48 AM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: redcatcherb412

Conyers at 88 is a perpetual sexual machine, baby.

I say he ought to donate his body parts to science.

The headline would be a riot:

“Black Icon donates his penis to the Atomic Energy Commission.”

ROTFLOL.


37 posted on 11/26/2017 10:53:31 AM PST by Liz (Liberals are incapable of governing or practicing journalism in a normal American way.)
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To: markomalley

Hahaha! The LIB idiot “war-against’women” continues unabated. LOL.


38 posted on 11/26/2017 11:24:45 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: markomalley

And that is exactly the problem.


39 posted on 11/26/2017 11:59:11 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: markomalley

Botox seepage.


40 posted on 11/26/2017 12:01:33 PM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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