Is this crap true?!!

[mikeanike]

Conyers "forced" staffers to baby sit his kids? That's the best they can do? Rethugs rob the country blind and they are worried about this?

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/030106/news2.html

[Orrex]

1. Common practice

For example, the Office of The President forces Cheney to babysit Dubya.
I don't see why this is an issue at all.

Welcome to DU, by the way!

:hi:

[mikeanike]

6. hahaha

that was pretty funny! Its great to be here! :patriot:

[Laf.La.Dem.]

8. Made my day

Thank you - very funny (oops I mean very true):hi:

[hlthe2b]

2. Perhaps you should hook Rove up to a lie detector....

(with intermittent electric shocks to his genitals) to find out for sure.... I'd say this has his fingerprints all over it...Can we all say "SWIFT BOAT?" :eyes:

[movonne]

3. This is so much crap...

[enid602]

4. Conyers

Isn't Conyers a bit too long in the tooth to have children that still require babysitting?

[obnoxiousdrunk]

5. Looks like

they are out in full force today...

[Clark2008]

18. LOL!!! I like your screen name.

:hi: ... a belated welcome to DU.

[hiley]

his wife is only like 40..

so I would not say Congressman Conyers is long in the tooth!

[xxqqqzme]

19. my first thoughts, as well.

in what year? He's been in Congress since forever - did I read '64? gonna check that - yep, 11/3/64!

[liberalnurse]

7. I think it would be an honor to babysit

his kids....especially since they all must be over 21 years old.............O8)

[hiley]

13. look at his bio

young children

[BOSSHOG]

9. They sure won't deal with any of his reports or give any of

the information he has asked for.

[MadMaddie]

10. The repugs are getting desperate...

this is two years old....

I wonder what the real back story is on this...??

[babylonsister]

11. Conyers' birthday is 5/13/29. I think his kiddies are probably

grown-ups by now.

[onenote]

15. conyers kids aren't as old as you assume

There's this thing called the internet that allows you to check stuff before making assumptions.

John Conyers III is around 15 (since he was 10 in October 2000). http://www.gobelle.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_21_98/ai_67151648


Not sure how old Carl Conyers is, but Conyers himself described his kids as "young children" in 2000. http://www.house.gov/conyers/pr122900.htm

If you read the story (which no one ever seems to do), the allegations underlying the complaint date back to the late 1990s. So at the time his kids probably were babysitting age.

I hope that the allegations are untrue, but the fact of the matter is that, after spending much of my adult life involved with politicians and elected officials, it wouldn't surprise me if there was some truth (maybe not the whole truth) to the allegations.

onenote

[babylonsister]

17. Thanks. I looked up his site, but only saw his birthdate, and no

mention of the age of his kids, only that he had two.

[hiley]

12. He & Monica have young children..

http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_biography.htm

[demosincebirth]

14. They are scratching for anything

[Catherine Vincent]

16. He has young kids?

[onenote]

21. yep

they are young teens now, but these allegations go back a few years...

onenote

[radio4progressives]

20. Conyers has been the Leading Congressman to Expose, Impeach and Convict

the Bush Crime Family for High Crimes, Misdemeanors and Treason.

So, should we be surprised that Conyers is being targeted by the KKKROVE and pals?

[Catrina]

22. This is good news. They have always ignored him so this means he

is gaining traction ~

They're slipping. If this is supposed to cause outrage, it's laughable, considering the times we live in.

We're supposed to get all in a tizzy over something that inconvenienced someone back in the 'nineties, when we have 5000 Americans still missing from Hurricane Katrina, and every day, news of death and destruction coming from Bush's war in Iraq ~

Sorry if I don't see the problem here ~ I'll reserve my sympathies for the dead, their families, the maimed the missing, numbers which combined total close to 200,000 individuals multiplied by their grieving families ~ and all of whom are direct victims of this administration who are a wee bit upset over someone getting stuck with Rep. Conyers two children back in the nineties???

Even it were true, it's hillarious to think they think anyone in their right mind will see this as a problem. Shows where their priorities are.

[Gloria]

23. This sounds like they're talking about Kay Bailey Hutchinson....

I heard she was a real beaut with staff....