Conyers quits in wake of guilty plea

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Source: Detroit Free Press

Conyers quits in wake of guilty plea

By ZACHARY GORCHOW and NAOMI R. PATTON • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS • June 29, 2009

Updated at 1:10 p.m.



Convicted Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers has resigned effective July 6.


A member of Conyers’ staff handed the two-sentence resignation letter at 11:52 a.m. to Deputy City Clerk Vivian Hudson in the Clerk’s Office on the second floor of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.

Conyers’ resignation comes after her Friday guilty plea in U.S. District Court to a felony charge of accepting a bribe in exchange for a yes vote on the $1.2 billion Synagro Technologies sewage sludge recycling contract and other unspecified actions while a member of one of the city’s pension boards. It also ends perhaps the most turbulent tenure for a council member in memory.


Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20090629/NEWS01/90629033/Conyers+quits+in+wake+of+guilty+plea

[vadawg]

1. big surprise another crooked politician, they all need to be fired and we need to start again

[emilyg]

5. I would love that. Start fresh.

[Adsos Letter]

2. I have wondered

if this wasn't tied in somehow to Congressman Conyer's lack of real action in going after Bushco.

[Kolesar]

4. Monica Conyers has resigned...eom

[Demeter]

6. How Can He Hold On Now?

Maybe he'll be retiring in next election cycle?

[UrbScotty]

8. Well...

Congresswoman Carolyn Kilpatrick won after her son Kwame, the then-mayor, got himself in trouble.

[Demeter]

13. That's a different generation, and a different household

It's not like they were filing jointly, whereas a married couple probably is.

[UrbScotty]

14. Generation and household have nothing to do with it.

It's Detroit politics. Crazier things than that go on there all the time.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. let's start a 'crooks and liars' party - we have lots of potential members to put in it

[3waygeek]

11. We already have two of those n/t

[HelenWheels]

7. Is she a trophy wife?

How old is she, how long have they been married and what number wife is this?

[Divine Discontent]

9. most of that info is at the link in the OP. she's no trophy wife - avg. eom

[shadowknows69]

10. As far as I'm concerned "Spineless John" can go with her.

[Purveyor]

12. Just may happen. This investigation is far from being over with... eom