John Conyers, gotta love him!

http://www.noagenda.org/2006/03/conyers_violated_ethics_rules.php



Conyers violated ethics rules

by Matt Margolis :: March 1, 2006 2:28 PM

Two former aides to Rep. John Conyers, Deanna Maher and Sydney Rooks, have provided evidence (in the form of numerous letters, memorandums and copies of e-mails, handwritten notes and expense report) that the Michigan Democrat violated ethics rules by forcing them to work on a number of local and state campaigns and to baby-sit and chauffeur his children .

They also claim that other aides illegally used his congressional offices to "enrich themselves."

Maher decided she could no longer work for Conyers in such an unethical environment and quit in May 2005. Rooks had left Conyers years earlier; she was a full-time staffer working in the office for him from 1997 to 1999. Before leaving, Conyers placed her on paid administrative leave for several months and stopped paying her in April 2000.

“I could not tolerate any longer being involved with continual unethical, if not criminal, practices which were accepted as ‘business as usual,’” Maher wrote in a letter to the ethics panel dated Jan. 13, 2006.

The ethics committee has been aware of the allegations against Conyers for at least two years. According to The Hill Maher’s allegations date back to 1998, only a year after she was hired.

In her Jan. 13 letter, Maher recapped a previous allegation she had made that DeWayne Boyd, a former top aide to Conyers, used Conyers’s congressional office to obtain a fake passport after being convicted of fraud, making false statements and government theft in 2004. Sentenced in 2005 to 30 to 46 months in prison, Boyd fled to Ghana before being recaptured and extradited to the United States.

The crux of the allegations involves complaints that Conyers used his staff to work on several local and state campaigns including his wife’s failed bid for a seat in the state Senate. In 2003, the Detroit Free Press reported about the allegations that Conyers repeatedly violated House rules by forcing staffers to work on campaigns without taking leave.

Apparently, this isn't a rare thing in the Democratic Party.
A former staffer who has worked for two House Democrats said, “This type of behavior is so prevalent, the unofficial duties that members require you to do off-the-record. Most staffers are subjected to this unfair treatment. It’s the great untold story on Capitol Hill.”

Stories such as the above are so heartwarming to me. The culture of the Democrats is to blame the Republicans and more specifically, President Bush, for everything that is wrong. Well, Mr. Conyers seems to be a little wrong here also. And bad wrong. I love reading stuff such as this. I am ready to hear the liberal chorus consisting of the left, liberals, and Democrats jump on this story and run with it. Where is the condemnation of Mr. Conyers? I will wait for the repsonses from the left on this one.

The story above was from noagenda.org. Before you go telling me they are some right wing group that only bashes Democrats I will remind everyone of something. This story was run on CNN tonight with none other than the venerable Katie Couric at the helm. So it has to be true.

We are asked to believe all that is said about the President and the Republicans. Every bit of bad news the media can report about the President is ballyhooed and treated as gospel with such reverance. CNN is the leader in news. So.....it looks like Mr. Conyers has been caught and the chorus of condemnation should begin from the left.

If I don’t hear this I will just assume the left hates Bush and the Republicans and it doesn’t matter if the truth or not is printed when it’s bad about them. This is why the left is in second place and second place in this country is last place. Give me more reporting such as this. How bad will the Democrats look if stuff like this starts to get out about them? It won’t be pretty.