Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers has pleaded guilty of conspiring to commit bribery and faces up to five years in prison. Naturally this is big news in the Detroit papers. The charges arise out of a slude hauling contract which was approved by the Council by a 5-4 vote after Conyers switched her vote. But it’s also a national story, since Conyers’s husband, John Conyers, Jr., the second most senior member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. But I can’t find any mention of it on the websites of the New York Times or the Washington Post. Well, it’s on The Washington Examiner website now. Let’s say if any of the national news media cover it with the same intensity as, say, the Mark Sanford story.
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