Detroit Free Press: WASHINGTON — A lawyer who formerly worked for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, and later ran an ethics watchdog group in the nation’s capital confirmed for the Free Press on Thursday that Conyers verbally abused her, criticized her appearance and once showed up to a meeting in his underwear.
Melanie Sloan, a well-known Washington lawyer who for three years in the 1990s worked as Democratic counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, where Conyers remains the ranking Democrat, told the Free Press that Conyers constantly berated her, screaming at her and firing her and then rehiring her several times.
She said he criticized her for not wearing stockings on at least one occasion. On another, she said he ordered her backstage from a committee field hearing on crime she had organized in New York City to babysit one of his children. Sloan made clear that she did not feel she had ever been sexually harassed, but that she felt “mistreated by this guy.”
“I’m no shrinking violet,” said Sloan, who went on to become the executive director for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and later to open Triumph Strategy, a public affairs firm specializing in crisis response. “His constant stream of abuse was difficult to handle and it was certainly damaging to my self-respect and self-esteem.”
Conyers’ selfie penis pic shows up on Instagram 3..2..1…
Reed said, his client is taking the allegations seriously but that “If everybody that was facing ‘allegations’ — including the president, members of the House and Senate — resigned, we’d have a lot of unemployed people walking around.”
I’m down with that!
Unfortunately Sloan’s got no shot. She’s White.
Geez. Cut this guy some slack. He is a democrat after all. He was only trying to enhance his resume. It would be interesting to know how this female felt about Hillary screaming at everyone.
Was he wearing whitey tighties or boxer shorts?
And a plain white T shirt or a wifebeater.
“… Conyers constantly berated her, screaming at her and firing her and then rehiring her several times.”
How is this possible without her tacit consent?
Sorry, doesn’t pass the smell test.
There are plenty of reasons to loathe Conyers – this ain’t one of em.
izlamo delenda est …
“What? I thought it was casual Friday!”
” “I’m no shrinking violet,” said Sloan, who went on to become the executive director for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and later to open Triumph Strategy, a public affairs firm specializing in crisis response.”
Yet, she let him get away with all that shit and treat her like a used napkin on top of all of it.
What use were her little groups she started, if she was going to enable one of the worst offenders?
Lady, STFU unless you’re planning on doing something about him.
This is where you start running ads in his district listing some of the claims and ending with “This is what you voted for? Maybe it’s time he resigned”. Then list his DC office number. You never know.
I bet he was wearing them backwards.