WAOD Mailbag: Monica Conyers "They're Jealous of Me"

We really do an inordinate number of posts about the City of Detroit, but multiple readers sent me the latest shenanigans of Detroit Council President Monica Conyers. I don't think anything can top "Textual Healing" but this comes close. President Conyers, purportedly mocked a fellow council member for being a high school drop out, hearing impaired and then allegedly said that he had cancer.

As you know, WAOD has endorse Monica Conyers to be the next mayor of Detroit. From WAOD Reader Latonya:

That a tidbit to let you know that Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers (House of Representatives member John Conyers' wife) is at it again. Please take a look at this story from the Detroit Free Press' website (http://www.freep.com/article/20090211/BLOG25/90211062/Three+strikes+against+Conyers)

The latest kefluffle got started when Moco go into a discussion with a fellow council member:

Kenyatta said Conyers accused him of being disrespectful to women. "She said, 'I needed to learn to talk to a woman,' I said, 'I do when I am talking to one.'"

Kenyatta said Conyers rattled off the rude comments after he told her he wanted to see her budget cut request in writing.

"She began to say I was dumb, stupid, couldn't hear, had cancer and didn't graduate from college," said Kenyatta.

Conyers had to be restrained by her staff member and an officer assigned to protecting her, said Kenyatta.

"She was trying to walk up on me," he said.

Conyers did not deny the insults, but released a statement saying that at no point during the meeting did she have to be restrained.

Conyers was not at work Wednesday but she did issue a memo to council members titled, "My Sincere Apology."

"I would like to apologize for my response to your comments," she said in the letter to the entire council.

Moco even made MSNBC. You MUST listen to the interview Moco did with Mix 92.3 with Uncut Online
. Some of the highlights:

"If it's raining outside and it's only raining in one spot, Monica Conyers made it happen," she said of the media. "It's always Monica, Monica, Monica, Monica. I guess they like my name."

Conyers also gave her side of a loud argument with Kenyatta last week that began over proposed budget cuts and escalated into shouting in a City Hall hallway.

Conyers told Darcell that she couldn't remember whether she insulted Kenyatta for having a GED or wearing a hearing aid, but said she was only inquiring about whether he was in failing health.

Conyers said the argument began when Kenyatta disrespected her, challenged her authority and turned his back on her while she was talking.

"Everyone wants to make Monica out to be this bad person, but I'm going to say this to Detroiters and I'm not going to say it again: I don't care who it is or what it is, I'm going to defend myself," Conyers told Darcell. "I love men. I have four brothers. My whole family is full of men ... But I am not, I am not going to tolerate disrespect of women by men."...."

"I feel some people are jealous," Conyers said on the radio. "Some people wanted to be president. I didn't ask to be there. That's where they put me... Every day it's always something, nitpicky, nitpicky, nitpicky. I'm learning because before that I would have these outbursts on the camera. Now it's kind of leveled out. I'm dealing with it a little better. I recognize I was letting people push my buttons."Detroit News

Wow, and we thought things would calm down once Kwame Kilpatrick went to the clink. He's out by the way and might be moving to Texas. His Mama paid for his flight here:

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick paid for a private Lear jet to fly her son, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, to Dallas on Tuesday. "I was proud to pay for my son's flight to being a new life in Texas," she said in a statement released Wednesday, and first reported on WXYZ-TV. Detroit News

Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan would be so proud. (NOT!)

Comments

[cinco]

All across the political arena, there needs to be a clean up of the entitled mentality. Perhaps with President Obama making a start we can clean up the system. If these people aren't for the people then they are against the people. I'm tired of the weak excuses for inexcusable behaviors.

Relating to Kilpatrick...Texas isn't far enough away! His mother needs to stop rescuing him. Let him take full responsability for his actions and lack of decency.

[Mary]

how sad, how pathetic

[stella]

Damn it. John needs to set her on Karl Rove. I bet he would bring his ass to testify before Congress.

[Tafari]

Moco is a hot damn mess. She's one of the hottest topics in Detroit ALWAYS. The woman is beyond mentally unstable.

All that snorting during the story shows she that she has no class. And she is always saying someone is disrespecting her.

Detroit will command the spotlight as long as the fools who shit on city council remain.

And Frankie Darcell is a hot mess herself!!!

Tafari