Okay, so your Mayor is about to head upstate for Textual Healin'. Unemployment is rampant. Burned out vacant houses sit on every corner. Dropout rates are high. You have a sorry excuse for an NFL football team called the Lions. Needless to say, times aren't sweet for the fine people of Detroit.
Just when you thought things couldn't get any more depressing, or odd for the Motor City, here's another blast of extremely poor PR, courtesy of City Councilwoman Monica Conyers. I so wish I was making this up, but even my imagination isn't that vivid.
Long story short, Conyers was caught on video in an argument with the City Council President. In a show of supreme adulthood, when her point failed to get across, Conyers repeatedly belittled the President by referring to him as Shrek. Yeah, that Shrek.
The Detroit News later taped a group of schoolchildren bought to the Council for a tour, who confronted Conyers about her juvenile act. Hilarity ensues. Or not.
Shortly thereafter, Conyers gave a followup interview with the Detroit News further explaining her actions. Sorry, but they wouldn't let me embed that one, so watch it later. No, your eyes and ears to not deceive you, this is a real life elected official, channelling Deborah Wilson.[1]
I've watched these videos about a dozen times now, and I'm still not 100% convinced that this isn't some belated April Fool's Joke or a bad Cedric The Entertainer Presents outtake. One indisputable fact is that Conyers is indeed a real, living, breathing, and duly elected Detroit City Councilwoman, so no trickery there. And it turns out this little outburst ain't the even first, or the worst of her indiscretions. Peep this incident, from February.
An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting.And hey, since I'm piling on, here's another one from a couple of years back just for good measure. Turns out this chick doesn't just make hollow threats, she will take off her earrings and whoop a chick's ass over a Rum and Coke if so inclined. She's just extra gully like that.
But a spokesman for Conyers says she was the real victim in the hubbub.
According to the police report filed Thursday by DeDan Milton, an assistant to Kilpatrick, Conyers "threatened to shoot (Milton) with her gun" and made "several aggressive movements" toward Milton "in a threatening manner."
Milton also reported to police that Conyers said she would "have my brothers (mess) you up."
David Clark, chair of Detroit's General Retirement System, backed up Milton's account.
"She ran at him," Clark told The Detroit News. "She told him she would get a gun if she had to and that she has four brothers and they would whup his a-- if she asked them."
In his police report, Milton said members of Conyers' staff, and others at the meeting, had to restrain her. But Sam Riddle, Conyers' chief of staff, said Milton was the one who had to be restrained. Riddle, who said he witnessed the squabble, said Milton started it by telling Conyers to shut up -- and used an expletive.
Monica Conyers who will take a seat on the Detroit City Council next month -- got into a fight with another woman at a bar, police sources told the Free Press on Thursday.Seriously folks, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
The councilwoman-elect's spokesman, Sam Riddle, confirmed the confrontation but claimed Monica Conyers was randomly attacked by a drunken woman at a party and was forced to defend herself.
Conyers, 41, who was elected to the City Council in November, filed a police report on Wednesday, accusing the other woman -- identified by police as Rebecca Mews of Walled Lake -- of attacking her early Tuesday morning at Crossroads Lounge on Livernois in Detroit.
According to one police source, Mews alleged Conyers arrived at a party at the bar and began asking patrons to buy her a drink.
When no one did, she approached a man at the bar and said, "I know you're going to buy me a drink," the source said, citing Mews' police report.
Mews, who was with the man at the bar, wasn't pleased, and the two women began to fight, the report said. The women each say the other struck first.
And just in case you were wondering... "hmmmm, Conyers... Michigan... could that be...."
Yup, Monica Conyers is the wife of US Congressman John Conyers.
Jesus help us all. For the love of all things precious Monica, please H.S.D.
Michelle Obama is crying inside.
Question: Is this the most ignant elected official you've ever heard of or is it just me? How do folks like Conyers and Kwame Kilpatrick (family names aside) get elected in the first place? If you live in Detroit, why the hell haven't you sold your rapidly depreciating home and moved to Windsor yet?
Conyers answers to her conduct [Detroit Free Press]
Report says Monica Conyers made threat [Detroit News]
Monica Conyers in Fight At Bar [Detroit Free Press]
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i saw this video and read quite a few blogs on this last week. i was shocked and appalled at her tom foolery during the council meeting. what adult acts that way and in that setting?! really, lady?!
i was reading where people were disturbed by the one little girl who really dug into her for her actions (i think the kid's name was kierra). they were talking about how disrespectful she was and how she over-stepped her bounds as a child. i personally didn't have a problem with how she presented herself. yeah, she did get a little attitude, but only after conyers silly response, trying to justify as an adult why she responded in such a childlike manner during the meeting.
This is funny stuff. I'm sure if there were cameras rolling Monica Conyers would have tried to beat that young child.
That young girl did nothing wrong but simply challenge Conyers on her behavior. Conyers seemed to forget that children are allowed and expected to make mistakes. The margin for errror for adults, especially as elected civil servants is slim. That was hilarious.
That newscaster is best.
Monica acted tastelessly. They need to give her the boot. Elected officials are supposed to behave in dignified fashion.
Props to Lil' Kiki for challenging Monica.
And LOL at Vee. I bet Monica would've tried to snatch that girl up. *SMH*
See, *shaking my head*
Problem number one (among many I'm sure) she emasculated the current president of the city council because CLEARLY she was airing some dirty laundry by alluding to his domestic situation. Problem two, she committed the cardinal sin and came off as...wait for it...ANGRY BLACK WOMAN!
That was in the city council meeting.
When my friend found the clip of her about to beat down an eighth grader I finally lost all respect for her. I mean this lady has NO remorse--and right, why are Detroiters electing these fools. I mean I thought New Orleans school board meetings were unprofessional, and Chicago city council meetings were reprehensible when Harrold Washington was in office resulting in a councilman standing on his desk in order to hold up proceedings--but THIS?!?!?!??!
OMG!!!!
And if you call for her removal, then her constituents wouldn't be fairly represented in city council (although I don't really see how they are with her being there either), but wow, I first saw the clip on FoxNews of all places and the newscaster simply rolled his eyes and thought what my friend from Detroit said when I told him the story:
"Niggas"
my, my, my, look how far we've come.
This is the EXACT reason why I vote in my local elections.
man AB, you dont know what you're missing!! I've been going on Detroit Free Press(freep.com) since this whole Kilpatrick scandal broke and Detroit is really a city in peril.. I thought things were bad in Atlanta(City council meetings on public access are absolutely hilarious). But when I saw the video of the 8th grader completely demoralizing this joke of a elected official Monica Conyers I almost died from laughter.
And you wonder why Lil Latarian in Florida steals cars at 7yr old and wants to do "hoodrat stuff"..because of women like Monica Conyers
I think she's going through menopause. I work for a gynecologist.......she showing all the signs!
^^ good point anonymous. never thought of that one...i just thought she was hella crazy.
If I was her husband, I'd want a divorce!
I notice you didn't say anything about Basketball; Don't worry, you and the Wizards can talk about it while you're watching the Pistons play! :) As for the rest of your article you're right on point. Having been in the Navy, I haven't been home in a long time, And while I'm used to getting clowned about the Lions and crime, I never thought I'd be getting clowned about the STUPID jackasses in my city's government!
I don't think it's the water, AB - Monica Conyers is just a ghetto idiot who was elected to City Council on the strength of her husband's name. She's an embarassment on a good day.
Is it just me or is it obvious that she should have immediately apologized for her remarks? To take it a step further and try to justify her bad behavior to children of all people!!!
Stella
From time to time in Democracies elected officials act out. We see this in Korea and Taiwan where fights have been known to break out. A century ago in Congress where disputes sometime resulted in gun duels. In Detroit we have Monica Conyers.
I read this and watched the Conyers videos. I do believe that Bush is more intelligent than Conyers - you just don't how it kills me to type that.
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