{"id":179654,"date":"2017-12-05T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/05\/john-conyers-has-left-the-house\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T01:55:00","slug":"john-conyers-has-left-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/05\/john-conyers-has-left-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"John Conyers Has Left the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>He has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/05\/us\/politics\/john-conyers-election.html\">Conyers will be living the House of Representatives immediately<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Representative John Conyers Jr., under intense pressure to resign amid multiplying allegations that he sexually harassed former employees, announced Tuesday that he would leave Congress immediately, and he endorsed his son John Conyers III to succeed him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Conyers, 88, the \u201cdean\u201d of the House and the longest-serving African-American representative in history, acquiesced to weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats. But by trying to keep his Detroit-area seat in the family, he touched off a family feud between his 27-year-old son and his great-nephew Ian Conyers, a state senator from Michigan who also plans to run in a special House election.<\/p>\n<p>In a phone interview, Ian Conyers said that his great-uncle encouraged him to run for the seat days before deciding to step down. Now the two younger Conyerses will most likely face off in what may become a battle over the legacy of Mr. Conyers, considered an icon to many black people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Sir, if you decide that you\u2019re going to retire, give me a heads-up because I\u2019m going to run for your seat and keep doing the work that you have been up to,\u2019\u201d Ian Conyers said. \u201cHe said, \u2018Absolutely. You go for it. Run.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will note that this sh%$ <b>HAD<\/b> to have become common knowledge in the Congress at some point in the past 52 years he has served.<\/p>\n<p>Who were his enablers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has announced that Conyers will be living the House of Representatives immediately: Representative John Conyers Jr., under intense pressure to resign amid multiplying allegations that he sexually harassed former employees, announced Tuesday that he would leave Congress immediately, and he endorsed his son John Conyers III to succeed him. Mr. Conyers, 88, the \u201cdean\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,569],"class_list":["post-179654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}