Rookie Of The Year? 'Mama Bear' Rashida Tlaib Comes Out Roaring
By Joe Lapointe
At the late October funeral of former U.S. Congressman John Conyers, his widow -- Monica Conyers told Detroit mourners she was sorry for them because no one now will fight their fights.
Can you pick up the phone and call your congressmans office? she asked the gathering. Can you pick up the phone and say 'Congressman, I need you to come here, do this?
In her eulogy, the widow Conyers continued to bemoan the woes of his old district, Michigans 13th. Speaking in the voice of an aggrieved constituent, she said:
Congressman, DTEs about to turn my lights off! Congressman, they about to do something with my mortgage! . . . Im about to get evicted. Congressman, they about to take my house from me! Can you call? You got anybody you can call for that? You dont have nobody.
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