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Home Front: Politix
Conyers Turns on Conyers In Bid to Replace Conyers
2018-05-05
[ROLLCALL] The Conyers family power struggle intensified Thursday as Ian Conyers, the great nephew of disgraced former Rep. John Conyers Jr., took steps to boot the ex-congressman’s son John Conyers III from the ballot in the race to replace him.
It’s a family seat, but only one of them can win.
John Conyers III should be kicked from the ballot because he did not collect the requisite 1,000 valid signatures to run for his father’s old seat in Michigan’s 13th District, the formal challenge filed by an attorney for Ian Conyers asserts.
Nothing personal, it's just business.
The challenge urges officials to throw out 617 of the 1,240 signatures on John Conyers III’s filing petition because because they came from people who live outside the 13th District; are not registered to vote; and had already signed the petition, The bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
 News reported.

"As is the standard process every election cycle, candidates can challenge petitions to ensure compliance with the spirit and letter of the law," Ian Conyers, a state senator, told the newspaper.
Posted by:Fred

#2  Don't forget the cemeteries, another reliable Democrat voting bloc!
Posted by: Raj   2018-05-05 10:23  

#1  they came from people who live outside the 13th District;

You know, Mexico, Nigeria, Gutemala, places like that.
Posted by: AlanC   2018-05-05 09:30  

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