Paul of Wizbang just e-mailed to draw my attention to John Conyers’ staff and the Case of the Purloined Turkeys.
Utterly remarkable:
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.
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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.
The unnamed staff member raised concerns in a memo sent to both the FBI and House ethics committee. Conyers was the target of an informal ethics committee inquiry last year following a Free Press investigation about use of staff members during work hours for political campaigns.
Lovely. It certainly would seem that the real turkeys are the one working for Conyers.
Maybe this is why Conyers wants to talk about the Electoral College
And I think that Brain Shavings is correct:
If he keeps ignoring this story and the blogosphere goes nuclear, you’ll be seeing another demonstration the power of the tail
Given that Glenn and Drudge have both posted this, I suspect the heat will grow rather rapidly.
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January 5th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
Blog swarm gathers around Conyers
Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters may well be touching off a blog swarm around Michigan Democrat Congressman John Conyers, whose staff stands accused of taking charity Christmas turkeys and giving them to friends instead of to Detroit’s hungry an…
January 5th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Or “The case of the Ill-gotten gobblers.”
anyway I got an anon email about this funny funny funny
http://turkeygate.blogspot.com/
January 5th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
TurkeyGate
Where did turkeys go? Gleaners asks if Conyers’ staff helped needy people (Detroit Free Press)
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. R…
January 5th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Blog swarm gathers around Conyers
Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters may well be touching off a blog swarm around Michigan Democrat Congressman John Conyers, whose staff stands accused of taking charity Christmas turkeys and giving them to friends instead of to Detroit’s hungry an…
January 5th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
Blog swarm gathers around Conyers
Captain Ed over at Captain’s Quarters may well be touching off a blog swarm around Michigan Democrat Congressman John Conyers, whose staff stands accused of taking charity Christmas turkeys and giving them to friends instead of to Detroit’s hungry an…
January 5th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
And given Conyers’ sense of entitlement where power is concerned, the reasonable and wittily self-deprecating explanation that would defuse this situation in minutes is unlikely to ever come.
January 5th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
Big Stories of the Day…
From what I can tell, the two biggest stories of the day were the following: (1) Ashlee Simpson sucking at the Orange Bowl You would think watching pop artists suffer in live primetime events would be par for the course…