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Leland_palmer
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 6:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

By NAOMI R. PATTON • FREE PRESS
http://tinyurl.com/aq7ay6

A day after the Detroit City Council voted to reject legislation for a $288 million expansion and renovation of Cobo Center, Council President Monica Conyers is in Lansing today trying to gain support from the state Legislature to negotiate a new Cobo deal.

“That’s not going to happen,” said Matt Marsden, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, when he heard of Conyers’ trip to Lansing to plead for federal stimulus dollars for an expansion of Cobo. “They should have taken the offer that was presented to them. The federal stimulus package is not going toward Cobo and she should spend a little more time with her Council to get them to reconsider the deal.”

This follows news that State Sen. Hansen Clarke, D-Detroit, today proposed amending the current legislation to give the City Council 45 additional days to consider a plan and to require that Detroiters be given preference in hiring on expansion-related projects.

The council did pass a new resolution, introduced by Conyers, to get federal stimulus funds to fund a $400 million expansion and upgrade for the city’s convention center.
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Lodgedodger
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 6:42 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

That woman is a raving lunatic. What does she expect, Governor Granholm to make an exception for Detroit and allow stimulus dollars to be used for Cobo? Yes please, change all the rules for Detroit.

What a damned idiot. Problem is, some folks in this city seem to think she's turned into their "voice" against the outsiders.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

mc + kk = soulmates forever
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Angry_dad
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:32 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe Monica can sue somebody for the funds she pissed away?
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Crosswordgirl
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

maybe she can sue everyone in lansing.........and call them all racists to boot.
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:45 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Quote: "Problem is, some folks in this city seem to think she's turned into their "voice" against the outsiders."

You nailed it LD. Aren't these lunatics and sociopaths voted in by the people?

Detroit will collapse under this sort of governing. The city needs the "outsiders" and outsiders do not need the city. Someone said yesterday, the suburbs need the city, they could not have been more wrong. Re: Cobo, They want Obamadollars, that's the crux of this whole thing. Seriously, what does it matter where the money comes from? I hope they don't get one red cent. If this is how they feel, let it go, it's heading there anyway. One step closer to receivership.
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Fnemecek
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

You nailed it LD. Aren't these lunatics and sociopaths voted in by the people?


Yes. However, in defense of Detroit's electorate, when she was elected, the craziest/stupidest thing she had ever done was marry a sitting U.S. Congressman.

All of this crap came to light after the election.
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Detroitej72
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

So true, Fnemecek.

I had never heard of her before she came upon the Clown Council, of which, I'm sure she won because of her name.

I suspect she was bored at home, with hubby John in Washington, and needed a hobby to keep her busy.

I always had a pretty favorable view of Congressman Conyers, but after seeing his choice in a wife, I may have to reconsider my position the next time he comes up for re-election.
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Daddeeo
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

John must have been thinking below the belt.
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Rjk
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:22 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Didn't she flunk the bar exam 3 or 4 times?

She probably figured she need to find a job that she could get by tricking people into thinking she was qualified instead of having to prove it.
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Bob
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:27 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Can the FBI just put us out of our misery and charge her with something so we can get someone is that will stop making us all look like fools?
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Lodgedodger
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:33 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Bob, I've had that thought about 300 times in the past 24 hours.
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Tkelly1986
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 8:39 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Detroit needs to go into recievership....The city council is full of clowns who have no business making decisions affecting 800,000 people let alone themselves. The worst is a tie between the lunatic Conyers and the racist Barbara Rose Collins....Please Detroit, vote these idiots out of office!!!
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Daddeeo
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 10:17 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Dysfunction at the Junction. Train wreck city.
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Detroitbred
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:28 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

John was thinking with his "other" head when he hooked up with her. Ughhhhhh
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Southwestmap
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:29 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

No, no. Monica Conyers is just the "beard" for John Conyers and whoever.
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Haikoont
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Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 10:30 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:

John was thinking with his "other" head when he hooked up with her.



I thought it was an open secret that Monica is not his type.

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