John Conyers to endorse Mayor Cockrel

**leland_palmer** · April-24-09, 08:03 PM

Leonard N. Fleming
The Detroit News

http://detnews.com/article/20090424/...Mayor+Cockrel+

Cockrel campaign manager Jim Edmondson....declined to speculate about why Conyers endorsed the mayor, given his contentious relationship with his wife, who took over as council president when Cockrel became mayor following Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's resignation last fall.

Couldn't have anything to do with helping Monica hang on to her interim Council President position could it?

rugbyman · April-24-09, 08:50 PM

I think you're overstating his concern about her career more than a bit.

MIRepublic · April-24-09, 09:12 PM

At least on this issue, one can't help but to wonder how this is playing out in that family. Unfortunately, politics are all about professional and personal dynamics, much of the time. I wouldn't think, though, that this would have anything to do about helping her keep the presidents seat. Not only did she recently hint that she may have had enough, but polls released shows she doesn't have a chance in hell of keeping the top spot, which, remember, she fell into accidentially, anyway. The citizens didn't make her president.

All of the inside baseball aside, this is a huge endorsement for Cockrel.

**daddeeo** · April-25-09, 09:02 AM

I'm not so sure. It could be the kiss of death!

**Lowell** · April-25-09, 09:10 AM

Who wouldn't like to be a fly on the wall to listen in on that domestic debate.

One has to give Monica credit, she has brokered a married name into an office position. But then so have names like Cockerel, Kilpatrick, Cavanaugh and Callahan helped. Maybe instead of term limits, we need name limits?

Bearinabox · April-25-09, 11:38 AM

How about stupidity limits?

**Prodigal_Son** · April-25-09, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by daddeeo

I'm not so sure. It could be the kiss of death!

Why? John Conyers has managed to remain quite popular, so far as I can tell, despite his wife's histrionics.

My take: Whoever the Free Press endorses loses, especially if establishment politicians like the Conyers get behind him. Wish he would talk some sense to his wife, though.