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John Conyers Wins Democratic Primary For Michigan 13th Congressional  
District  
 
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/07/john-conyers-wins-democrat-primary-detroit-michigan-congress_n_1754134.html?view=print&comm_ref=false)  
Posted: 08/07/2012 11:06 pm Updated: 08/07/2012 11:30 pm
 
 
 
 
 
 



 




 
On Tuesday,  Aug. 7, 2012, Rep. John Conyers won the Democratic bid for 
Michigan's 13th  Congressional district, defeating opponents state Sen. Bert 
Johnson and Glenn  Anderson. 

 
 






 
 
   
 




 
This is a developing story... 
The results are in and the venerable John Conyers, Jr. is emerging 
triumphant  in his battle for the newly redistricted 13th Congressional District 
U.S. House  seat.  
As of 11 p.m. Tuesday night, Conyers has polled 60 percent with 96 percent 
of  precincts reporting. That's a devastating lead over his opponents: state 
 Senators Glenn Anderson of Westland (with 11 percent) and Bert Johnson of  
Highland Park (with 12 percent), state Rep. Shanelle Jackson (14 percent) 
and  Wayne Westland school board member John Goci (3  percent). 
Now serving his twenty-fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives,  
Conyers is a politician who carries a powerful legacy. The second-oldest 
member  of the U.S. House of Representatives, he is known as the "Dean" of the  
Congressional Black Caucus and is a former chairman of the House Judiciary  
Committee. Some of his more famous pieces of legislation include the Motor 
Voter  Bill of 1993, the Martin Luther King Holiday Act of 1983 and the 
Alcohol Warning  Label Act of 1988. 
Despite his accomplishments Conyers drew fire during his campaign for 
r_efusing to debate_ 
(http://www.freep.com/article/20120726/NEWS15/120726086/Canidates-praise-U-S-Rep-Conyers-for-his-service-at-debate-forum)  his 
opponents.  
He also had the challenge of competing as a candidate in an newly drawn  
district that included new constituencies in Detroit's suburbs with  
substantially different demographic makeups than the majority African-American  city 
of Detroit. In addition to this, Rep. Conyers had to overcome political  
baggage resulting from his wife Monica's 2009 guilty plea for conspiracy to  
commit bribery. She is now serving out a three-year prison term.  
Conyers says his priority as a Congressman remains passing the  
Humphrey-Hawkins Act, a bill that he says would create full employment for those  who 
want to work.