Representative John Conyers (D-MI) unable to account for missing food donations

[burnedout]

Detroit Free Press

[Hat tip: The Sage of Knoxville]

Where did turkeys go?

Gleaners asks if Conyers' staff helped needy people
January 5, 2005

BY JOEL THURTELL
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

The director of a Detroit food bank wants to know what happened to 60 turkeys -- 720 pounds of frozen birds -- that his charity gave to members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers' local staff two days before Thanksgiving to give to needy people.

Conyers' Detroit office promised an accounting of any turkey distribution by Dec. 27, but the Gleaners Community Food Bank had received no paperwork as of Tuesday, said the charity's director, Agostinho Fernandes.

Fernandes said he became suspicious that the turkeys didn't get to poor people after hearing from a friend that a federal court worker had said he was offered free turkeys from a member of Conyers' staff. . . .

. . . A Conyers staff member who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal told the Free Press that Grubbs and her cousin, Conyers' Detroit deputy chief of staff Marion Brown, along with a former Conyers aide, DeWayne Boyd, picked up the turkeys and later gave contradictory accounts of what happened to the birds. . . . .

Could be a "TurkeyGate" in the making.

 

[sMiLeYz]

0o0o0o0o0o scandalous!

 

[Darkhawk28]

LOL, is this the best Rove & Company could come up with?!?!?!?! :laugh:

 

[SuperTool]

This bird won't fly. Maybe a staffer will get fired, but that's about as far as that'll go.

 

[BarneyFife]

LOL. I find it odd that a food bank would give turkeys to a congressman to distribute. I wonder where they stored all of these turkeys at?

 

[Pliablemoose]

The poor people prob fell into a coma listening to Conyers speak & he had to give them away to fed employees who were immune to his sleep inducing speeches....

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
I wonder where they stored all of these turkeys at?

I believe they each have their own office on Capitol Hill!

CsG

 

[CaptnKirk]

Here's two of them . . .

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Originally posted by: SuperTool
This bird won't fly. Maybe a staffer will get fired, but that's about as far as that'll go.

Ok - so W is liable for anything that any subordinate does, but a congressman isn't?

 

[Darkhawk28]

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate

Originally posted by: SuperTool
This bird won't fly. Maybe a staffer will get fired, but that's about as far as that'll go.

Ok - so W is liable for anything that any subordinate does, but a congressman isn't?

So, you're comparing a miscue with some turkeys against lying about WMD's in Iraq??? :roll:

 

[Gravity]

LOL, that's all that this guy is about....stolen donations from a food bank!! What a wasted opportunity.

 

[burnedout]

Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
LOL, is this the best Rove & Company could come up with?!?!?!?! :laugh:

Ummm, no.

Try this

 

[Darkhawk28]

Originally posted by: burnedout

Originally posted by: Darkhawk28
LOL, is this the best Rove & Company could come up with?!?!?!?! :laugh:

Ummm, no.

Try this

Too bad, he'll get elected by Congress this time around.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: CADsortaGUY

Originally posted by: BarneyFife
I wonder where they stored all of these turkeys at?

I believe they each have their own office on Capitol Hill!

CsG

:laugh::thumbsup:

CAD, I've seen you cut and paste some truly unfunny attempts at humor, but THIS was a 10/10!

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

Originally posted by: Darkhawk28

Originally posted by: DevilsAdvocate

Originally posted by: SuperTool
This bird won't fly. Maybe a staffer will get fired, but that's about as far as that'll go.

Ok - so W is liable for anything that any subordinate does, but a congressman isn't?

So, you're comparing a miscue with some turkeys against lying about WMD's in Iraq??? :roll:

Stealing turkeys from the poor when you purport to be their champion is really pathetic.

 

[rickn]

those poor turkey's, wherever did they go