Detroit city councilwoman pays only $68 in property taxes a year;listed as vacant lot

[disorderlyvision]

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[roho76]

I say she's lying because she is on the Detroit City Council and that equals lying in my book. Detroit politics are rotten to the core. They need to throw Monica Conyers out, too. Listen to this stupid bitch.

YouTube - Monica Conyers, Ken Cockrel Outburst (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQLxVO-qjM)

While Detroit schools are closing they can't put up Charter and Private schools fast enough.

Good job idiots. I think Detroit needs another good fire to whip these people back into shape.

[angelatc]

Leave them all alone!!! It's wonderfully entertaining. Nobody actually expects anything out of them!

Conyers is indeed the poster child for "stupid but loud and mean" though. I just recently learned that she's John Conyers' wife.

[james1906]

Can't you buy a house in Detroit for $68?

[roho76]

Kwami was selling them for a $1 a couple of years ago.

[angelatc]

Bumped to add a video I just found. If you haven't watched the "Outburst' video above, then you'll need to know that Mrs. Conyers called the mayor "Shrek" as she was having her tantrum.

This video really takes off when the 2nd kid gets the mic:

YouTube - Monica Conyers debates school children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvgtGlcdTE)

[RebelRoss0587]

The City Council elections apparently have something like 1,000 candidates to fill the seats in November. People in Detroit are ready to to knock so many of the bums outta there. Election officials don't know how they are going to make the ballot though.

I'm impressed with their new mayor Dave Bing, so if they get the corruption out of the city council, maybe Detroit can finally begin to rebuild and heal.

[angelatc]

The City Council elections apparently have something like 1,000 candidates to fill the seats in November. People in Detroit are ready to to knock so many of the bums outta there. Election officials don't know how they are going to make the ballot though.

I'm impressed with their new mayor Dave Bing, so if they get the corruption out of the city council, maybe Detroit can finally begin to rebuild and heal.

Not joking - there are actually more registered voters than actual residents in Detroit, so nobody is hoping for any "real" change.

[gls]

Is she the one who wears a crown to the meetings?

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[roho76]

Bumped to add a video I just found. If you haven't watched the "Outburst' video above, then you'll need to know that Mrs. Conyers called the mayor "Shrek" as she was having her tantrum.

This video really takes off when the 2nd kid gets the mic:

YouTube - Monica Conyers debates school children (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TvgtGlcdTE)

Thanks for that Angela. That woman is despicable. Arguing with children. Not to mention she equated arguing with the City Council President with not get information from your teacher. How low can you go? I'm surprised she agreed to this in the first place.

[HOLLYWOOD]

What a Piece of Trash... Detroit City Council Conyers Guilty on Bribery? It appears politicians of that City are nastier than Chicago. Carma Baby Carma!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7938249&page=1

Wife of Judiciary Chairman Conyers Pleads Guilty to Bribery
Monica Conyers, Wife of Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., Pleads Guilty to Federal Bribery
WASHINGTON, June 26, 2009
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Monica Conyers, the wife of the powerful chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7883514), Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., pleaded guilty to one count of bribery in a federal court in Detroit, this morning.
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Politics/ap_john_conyers_090626_mn.jpgIn this Sept. 5, 2005 file photo Monica Conyers sits with her husband, Democratic U.S. Rep. John... http://a.abcnews.com/assets/gfx_RedWhiteBlue/icons/icon-arrow-down.gif (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7938249&page=1#)
In this Sept. 5, 2005 file photo Monica Conyers sits with her husband, Democratic U.S. Rep. John Conyers at a Labor Day rally in Detroit. Prosecutors on Friday, June 26, 2009 charged Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers with accepting cash bribes in exchange for supporting a sludge contract with a Houston company. http://a.abcnews.com/assets/gfx_RedWhiteBlue/icons/icon-arrow-up.gif (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=7938249&page=1#)
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According to court documents, in late 2007, Mrs. Conyers, president pro tem of the Detroit City Council, twice accepted envelopes filled with cash, once in the parking lot of a Detroit McDonalds.
This case focuses around dealings with Detroit businessman Rayford Jackson who pleaded guilty on Monday to giving $6,000 to a member of the Detroit City Council to help steer a wastewater treatment contract to Synagro Technologies.

Jackson was working as a consultant for Synagro which won the $1.2 Billion contract to remove sludge from the city's water treatment plants. The contract was awarded in 2007.
The criminal information noted that on Nov. 20, 2007 and Dec. 4, 2007 Mrs. Conyers received envelopes filled with cash from people associated with Jackson.
After initially opposing a sludge contract with Synagro, Mrs. Conyers, after accepting a bribe, became the deciding vote in the city council on a resolution to approve the contract.
Mrs. Conyers faces up to 5 year in prison, three years supervised release and/or a $250,000 fine. Calls to an attorney for Mrs. Conyers were not immediately returned.

Rep. John Conyers, a 23-term Democrat, has no involvement in any of the charges and is expected to continue as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department and the FBI.
In a statement from a spokesman for Rep. Conyers said, "This has been a trying time for the Conyers family and, with hope and prayer, they will make it through this as a family. Public officials must expect to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards. With this in mind, Mr. Conyers wants to work towards helping his family and city recover from this serious matter."
Conyers failed to appear Friday morning at an event at the National Press Club on a panel discussion on prosecutorial misconduct at the Justice Department. House Judiciary Committee counsel Elliot Mincberg, appeared on the chairman's behalf and stated the congressman has "present business on Capitol Hill.

[Matt Collins]

Property taxes should be abolished. Why should someone pay for the privilige of owning something they already possess.:confused:

[Pepsi]

Property taxes should be abolished. Why should someone pay for the privilige of owning something they already possess.:confused:

The odds are if that were to happen, it would be for them, not for us. And they would chang the election laws to make it even harder for you to be elected or rather cheat behind the sceans to make it look like they just happen to win each election.

here is something that happen in Idaho back in 2001 were county commissioners use Title 63, Section 1126 (A,B,C,D) that did not seem to exist any were in Idahos code.


Do Americans have the right to own property?


http://proliberty.com/observer/20010902.htm