jimnyc
12-10-2017, 05:01 PM
Good times good times.
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Riley: What, Gov. Snyder? No election to replace Conyers until next November?
It is absolutely ridiculous.
Democrats drummed two of their most important members out of Congress – Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota – before ethics committee investigations could be completed into allegations against them of sexual misbehavior.
That’s not the most ridiculous part.
They did this without calling for the resignation of Donald Trump.
That’s not the most ridiculous part.
Here’s the ridiculous part: Gov. Rick Snyder has set the special election to replace Conyers for next November.
Next year.
Yes, 11 months from now.
So, Snyder feels that the 13th Congressional District is so unimportant that it doesn’t need representation in the U.S. Congress for nearly a year?
Let the lawsuits begin.
"It's going to be a great void for 11 months," the Rev. Wendell Anthony, pastor at Fellowship Chapel and president of the Detroit NAACP, said in an interview with me on 910AM Superstation. "...The governor is saving money doing it at the time of the regular election, but can you put a monetary value on the people's right to representation? If it was me, I'd rather have it sooner. There are so many issues pressing upon us, the budget. If the GOP gets this budget through, next year they're going after entitlements. That's how they're going to pay for it... health care, education, the ability for parents, women to be able to nurture their children, roads, infrastructure, mental health, those things that are people-oriented.
"Donald Trump, under the table, has been appointing federal judges left and right and both Al Franken and John Conyers, not excusing any misbehavior, have stood in the gap and blocked several appointments in terms of extremist judges who would be lifetime appointments to the federal bench," Anthony said. "And there may be somebody who will step down because of illness or weariness or age from the Supreme Court between now and next November, which means the kind of spirit and judicial acumen that a John Conyers has brought over the years to the Judiciary Committee will not be there. That voice that comes from this district and says 'No.' John Conyers has done that time after time after time.
Rest - https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2017/12/10/riley-snyder-election-replace-conyers/936504001/
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Riley: What, Gov. Snyder? No election to replace Conyers until next November?
It is absolutely ridiculous.
Democrats drummed two of their most important members out of Congress – Rep. John Conyers of Michigan and Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota – before ethics committee investigations could be completed into allegations against them of sexual misbehavior.
That’s not the most ridiculous part.
They did this without calling for the resignation of Donald Trump.
That’s not the most ridiculous part.
Here’s the ridiculous part: Gov. Rick Snyder has set the special election to replace Conyers for next November.
Next year.
Yes, 11 months from now.
So, Snyder feels that the 13th Congressional District is so unimportant that it doesn’t need representation in the U.S. Congress for nearly a year?
Let the lawsuits begin.
"It's going to be a great void for 11 months," the Rev. Wendell Anthony, pastor at Fellowship Chapel and president of the Detroit NAACP, said in an interview with me on 910AM Superstation. "...The governor is saving money doing it at the time of the regular election, but can you put a monetary value on the people's right to representation? If it was me, I'd rather have it sooner. There are so many issues pressing upon us, the budget. If the GOP gets this budget through, next year they're going after entitlements. That's how they're going to pay for it... health care, education, the ability for parents, women to be able to nurture their children, roads, infrastructure, mental health, those things that are people-oriented.
"Donald Trump, under the table, has been appointing federal judges left and right and both Al Franken and John Conyers, not excusing any misbehavior, have stood in the gap and blocked several appointments in terms of extremist judges who would be lifetime appointments to the federal bench," Anthony said. "And there may be somebody who will step down because of illness or weariness or age from the Supreme Court between now and next November, which means the kind of spirit and judicial acumen that a John Conyers has brought over the years to the Judiciary Committee will not be there. That voice that comes from this district and says 'No.' John Conyers has done that time after time after time.
Rest - https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2017/12/10/riley-snyder-election-replace-conyers/936504001/