Sunday Reads

The other big story today is the death of John Conyers, who was in the House for many, many years representing parts of Detroit.

He was 90 years old.  He resigned from the House in 2017:

Conyers was born in Detroit in 1929 and entered Congress in 1965 where he championed the Civil Rights Movement and pushed liberal legislation throughout his tenure.

Conyers' longevity in Congress was punctuated by a contentious resignation in 2017 amid allegations of sexual harassment.

The Michigan Democrat faced an investigation by the House Ethics Committee into multiple allegations that he had sexually harassed women who worked with him when he told a Detroit area radio show that he'd step down from his seat in Congress.

"My legacy can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now," he told the Mildred Gaddis' radio show at the time. "This too shall pass." Conyers repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

In 1983, Conyers introduced the original bill to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday and in 1994 worked on the Violence against Women Act. He became the first African American to serve as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee in 2007.

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Thank God Beto will never be president:

Your gender identity is for you to decide, and no government—local, state, or federal—should stand in the way. pic.twitter.com/iICJIha4wT

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) October 26, 2019

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Sunday is supposed to be a slow news day, but it is anything but.  Katie Hill has resigned from Congress thanks to those nude photos showing up plus allegations of inappropriate relationships.

Ilhan Omar will probably be gone in short order as well.
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