Another DemRat finally bites the dust.
Via Fox News
Former Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the longest-serving black member of Congress and founder of the Congressional Black Caucus who resigned in 2017 amid sexual harassment allegations, has died in his sleep, Fox News confirmed.
Detroit police said the 90-year-old former congressman, a Democrat, died at his home on Sunday, apparently of natural causes.
……But after a nearly 53-year career, he became the first Capitol Hill politician to lose his job in the torrent of sexual misconduct allegations sweeping through the nation’s workplaces. A former staffer alleged she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances, and others said they’d witnessed Conyers inappropriately touching female staffers or requesting sexual favors.
……In 2009, his wife Monica Conyers, a Detroit city councilwoman largely elected on the strength of her husband’s last name, pleaded guilty to bribery. The case was related to a sludge hauling contract voted on by the City Council, and she spent nearly two years in prison.
Three years earlier, the House ethics committee closed a three-year investigation of allegations that Conyers’ staff worked on political campaigns and was ordered to baby-sit for his two children and run his personal errands. He admitted to a “lack of clarity” with staffers and promised changes.
But he couldn’t survive the last scandal. An ethics committee launched a review after a former longtime staffer said Conyers’ office paid her more than $27,000 under a confidentiality agreement to settle a complaint in 2015. She alleged she was fired because she rejected his sexual advances, and other said they’d witnesses inappropriate behavior.
- Member of the radical Progressive Caucus
- One of 13 founders of Congressional Black Caucus
- Has longstanding ties to the Democratic Socialists of America
- Advocates freeing convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Plotted with radical Ramsey Clark and others about ways to impeach President George W. Bush
- Spoke in 2003 at anti-Iraq War rally of pro-North Korean Marxist group International A.N.S.W.E.R.
- Voted against a resolution stating that “the United States and Israel are now engaged in a common struggle against terrorism.”
- His district has a higher proportion of Muslims than any other in Congress, and his official congressional web site can be read in Arabic
- Spoke in 2005 at an event organized by accused anti-Semite Lyndon LaRouche
- Orchestrated letter-writing and media campaign over so-called Downing Street Memo with help from George Soros-funded MoveOn.org
Conyers is typical of other Dems. Their retarded constituents keep reelecting them, and they spend entirely too much time breathing oxygen and doing damage to the country until they die.