(7s) Longest Serving U.S. Representatives #2 - Representative John Conyers Jr. (Democratic Deacon of Michigan’s 14th District)

Okay, what the fuck is wrong with people in Michigan? Do they just not have elections with more than one person? Conyers represents northwest Detroit on over to Dearborn, basically the district right above the Dingell dude’s district. Conyers is the second-longest serving member of the House right now, and cut his political teeth working as an assistant to Dingell in Congress, before getting his own seat, sworn in on January 3, 1965. That’s just shady as fuck, that two dudes who were tight have held two major elected seats for 45 years now. And Michigan’s economy is crushed. Coincidence? No. The tree of liberty is looking pretty goddamned wilted and needs some fertilizer.
Conyers was one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is a collection of white dudes in suits who make all the rules for everybody else, just they’re not technically white dudes. Conyers was also on Richard Nixon’s infamous list of enemies (at the #13 spot), where his weakness was listed as “white women”, and his special powers were considered a strong head (for headbutting evil, and not falling weak to blows to the head) and superior genetic athleticism that made it hard to outrun him.
Shockingly enough, Conyers wife is a light-skinned black woman who has been under FBI investigation for political corruption in Detroit. And Conyers himself has caught shit, like all Congressmen do, for shady shit he’s done regarding public funding of medical research and other nonsense that supports his financial supporters which help him make nice commercials that convince the people to keep on voter lever stamping him into office every two years. And a great quote by Conyers, from 2001 on the House floor, regarding knowing a proposed bill in detail before voting on it, is “’Read the bill’... What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” Ahh... democracy in action. It warms my heart.