Congressman accused of using staff to baby-sit


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By Drew Griffin, CNN

Wednesday, April 12, 2006; Posted: 10:07 p.m. EDT (02:07 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two former staff members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, say the longtime Detroit congressman made them baby-sit his children, run errands and work on political campaigns while they were on his congressional payroll.

Sydney Rooks, whom Conyers hired as a legal adviser in his Detroit office, recalls the lawmaker brought his two young sons into her office several times, saying, "Rooks, they're your responsibility for right now. I'll be back later."

She said later could be a few minutes or an hour. "Later could be frantically calling around trying to find him because it was now 8 or 9 p.m. or later in the evening and not knowing what to do with the children," she said. (Watch ex-staffer say 'watch my child' turned into 6-week stay -- 6:40)

Deanna Maher, who was deputy chief of staff in Conyers' Downriver office, says her baby-sitting duties turned into a stint as a full-time nanny. "He handed me the keys to his car and his house, [said] take care of my child Carl and everything," Maher told CNN from her western Michigan home.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/12/griffin.conyers/index.html
 



Hunt my ARSE...if they were hired to be his aides not his nannys. Now if in their job contract it states maintaining and helping with personal obligations then hey, they signed it....live with it.

My question is...where is his wife? My next question is, where is his support infrastructure...i.e. FAMILY...Big Mama nem...

I'm just waiting for those who believe these two ladies were wrong to come and post.
 
jag4life said:
Wrong morally or wrong ethically or wrong legally?

:angel2:
HA!

After answering his question also add the answer to what's the difference between this and picking up laundry from the cleaners?!
:D
 
jag4life said:
Wrong morally or wrong ethically or wrong legally?

It depends on what is in their contract and the length of time the did it. To me it's wrong morally and ethically. If I have kids, then my kids are my first responsibility...before work and everything else. Also we don't know the underlying issue...man those kids may be bad as L....

All I'm saying is there is something going on here...it's called too busy for simple things.
 
I guess I missed what makes this newsworthy. They didn't have to babysit. You always have choices. Someone else would be glad to have their jobs and babysit.
 
IT SEEMS OBIVIOUS THAT MEDIA ISN'T FOCUSING WHAT REALLY HAPPENS TO THIS BELOVED NATION OF OURS.. WE HAVE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS SELLING OUT AMERICA TO COMMUNISTS IN CHINA. THE PRESS HASN'T MENTION WORD ABOUT VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA NOR VOTING RIGHTS ID BILL IN GA. LET US NOT FOREGET ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?.. OUR BORDERS AND PORTS ARE STILL UNPROTECTED FROM TERRORIST ATTACKS.
 
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