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Thread #145222   Message #3362725
Posted By: Sawzaw
12-Jun-12 - 08:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Can we afford Democracy?
Subject: RE: BS: Can we afford Democracy?
Huff Puff. You heard Boss Hog Bobert speaking for you and telling you what to do. What to pay attention to and what to ignore.

I say folks have the right read anything they want, believe it or not believe it and post whatever comments they want.

"Republicans are going for broke... No compromise... Just their way or the highway... Rig elections The American taliban...That's how it happened in Michigan"

Maybe you would like to draw your own conclusions about what happened in Michigan.

Sam Riddle: Michigan Democrats Paid Me $50K to Keep Quiet, FBI Asked Me About Dem Gov
Mike Cox, was also an ally and political crony of Democrat Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm and deposed Detroit ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, when they worked together for another Detroit political figure.

Riddle is a former aide to Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, who pleaded guilty last month to bribery in the same case of contract corruption that Riddle faces. Jim Rosendall, a former representative of Synagro, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting he paid a Detroit council member prior to a vote on the Synagro contract.

Conyers and her former aide Riddle join the other 6 alleged accused of bribery to aide Houston-based Synagro
Technologies confirm a multimillion dollar contract with Detroit. The other officials include former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, lobbying firm owner Bernard Kilpatrick, former Detroit CAO and CIO Derrick Miller, Kilpatrick's former assistant and later political consultant Mike Tardif, developer and consultant Rayford Jackson and lobbyist Akunna Olumba. The contract sparking the scandal was set to award Synagro with a $47 million annual contract to recycle biosolids from the city's waste treatment plant

Congressman John Conyers, Michigan Democrat and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has taken to introducing his wife by her maiden name, Monica Eskers. But in Detroit, where she's now being squeezed by the feds to accept a plea deal ahead of being indicted for bribery, she's known as Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers.

Detroit media have reported that the councilwoman was videotaped accepting a bribe payment – which with others totaled $6,000 – to buy her vote for a $1.2 billion city sludge-disposal contract. Conyers originally opposed the contract, but changed her mind, swinging her vote for a 5-4 approval.

Riddle said the Democrats paid him not to say negative things about Gov. Jennifer Granholm.    FBI agents also questioned Riddle about connections between Granholm and business consultant Bernard N. Kilpatrick, the father of then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, said Riddle, the former chief of staff to Councilwoman Monica Conyers.

Granholm and Bernard Kilpatrick worked together in the administration of the late Wayne County Executive Edward H. McNamara in the 1990s. Federal agents have been investigating payments made to Bernard Kilpatrick's consulting firm, Maestro Associates LLC, by companies seeking contracts with the city of Detroit while his son was mayor.