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?