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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (74073)	3/3/2006 1:23:30 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

If Kerry has learned anything...and I doubt that he has...he's failed to articulate it. He's been cowering ever since the election. He has not been an advocate for change...in fact he's been silent. He's done. Orca

To: American Spirit who wrote (74073)	3/3/2006 1:39:17 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 81568

Conyers' troubles A third former aide to U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr. has accused the Michigan Democrat of using staff as baby sitters and personal servants. The aides said Mr. Conyers had them tutor and care for his two sons; help his wife, City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, with law studies; and drive him to political and private events. Dean Christian Thornton, a legislative aide fired in January, has joined Deanna Maher, former chief of Mr. Conyers' office in Southgate, Mich., and Sydney Rooks, Mr. Conyers' attorney from 1997 to 2000, in charging the congressman with unethical if not illegal behavior, the Detroit News reports. Miss Maher said that in 1998, Mr. Conyers ordered her to live in his Detroit house while his wife attended law classes in Oklahoma. Miss Maher said she lived there for six weeks, caring for the couple's two young sons. Miss Maher and Mr. Thornton have written to the House ethics committee. Miss Rooks said she talked with committee staffers on the subject in 1999 and 2004 and plans to make a formal complaint soon. "I'm not going to get into responding to these things," said Stanley Brand, an attorney for Mr. Conyers.