Congressional Black Caucus chairman won't press Conyers to resign

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY MIKE LILLIS - 11/29/17 07:40 AM EST

The head of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) said late Tuesday that he won’t press embattled Rep. John Conyers to resign from Congress over allegations that the long-serving Michigan Democrat sexually harassed a handful of aides over the course of decades.

Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), who huddled with Conyers and other CBC members Tuesday afternoon, said he wants Conyers to cooperate in a nascent ethics investigation surrounding the charges.

But the ultimate question of whether Conyers should step down before the ethics probe is over, Richmond said, should be Conyers’s alone to answer. “That’s a personal decision for him and his family,” Richmond told reporters in the Capitol after votes, before stepping into an elevator.

Richmond’s position reveals a split both within the Black Caucus and between CBC leaders and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is said to be working “with CBC to apply pressure to get Conyers to step down,” according to senior Democratic aide. The aide did not say which members of CBC share that sentiment, and a number of prominent lawmakers within the group are lining up in staunch defense of their long-time friend and ally.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/362282-congressional-black-caucus-chairman-wont-press-conyers-to-resign

[FarPoint]

1. Good!

Let's move forward!

[snooper2]

3. Wrong, he should have stepped down already. Unless we are the party of hypocrites

[FarPoint]

5. There is an assult team out there promoting this harassment agenda..

Please look outside the box...there is a definitive goal... character assination via Trial by Media without need for factual, due process and accountability.

Perfect topic .. women being harassed...we all have been there at some level...The assult team knows this...that women will relate and not see the true big picture here...to destroy power figures that having them removed will make their agenda go smoothly...

[Honeycombe8]

2. The problem with Conyers is that he's head of the Dem. Committee that would impeach Trump.

There can be no distracting issues with the Democratic committee engaged in any such process. So this complicates that. If this can't be totally resolved in his favor, maybe he should at the least step down from that committee, so that it can serve a higher purpose, for the good of the country.

He has said he will resign, so I thought this was settled.

[Baclava]

4. More bad news....'New Conyers accuser: He stripped in D.C. hotel room'

Another former staff member for Rep. John Conyers alleged Tuesday the Michigan Democrat made unwanted sexual advances toward her multiple times. Serving as a deputy chief of staff at the time, Deanna Maher, 77, said Conyers stripped in front of her in a Washington hotel room in 1997.

"I was absolutely shaking, and he took off his clothes," Maher told CNN. "Then I figured out, 'Oh my god, what did I do? How stupid at my age that I walked in and got myself into a situation like that.'"

Maher, who was in her 50s at the time, told the Associated Press she "felt honored" to attend a three-day Congressional Black Caucus event with Conyers, but later discovered they would be sharing a two bedroom hotel suite.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-conyers-accuser-he-stripped-in-dc-hotel-room/ar-BBFTDdE?li=BBnbcA1

[FarPoint]

6. I require some validation trail to these sudden claims.

This is called due process...

[Baclava]

7. An accusation is all it takes - welcome to the new millennium n/t