What on Heaven goes on, up there in Michigan?
Veteran U.S. Congressman John Conyers does not have enough signatures to get on the Aug. 5 primary ballot, according to Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett.
Garrett told Local 4 on Friday that the signatures of two of Conyers’ circulators appear to be invalid.
This happened last cycle, only to our side: there are still Republican operatives who wince at the name “Thaddeus McCotter.” I do not think that this is actually political shenanigans, though. When McCotter abruptly resigned in 2012 over, ah, ballot signature irregularities the seat was ultimately retained by the GOP: very few people actually expect that the Democrats will lose a D+34 district for anything less than, say, finding out that a Congressman had stashed 90 grand of bribe money in his freezer*. But Conyers is apparently at real risk here, prior reports to the contrary: they’re going to make a final determination next week.
Frankly? Fifty years is a long time to be in the House. Too long, in fact. Fortunately, people eventually get sloppy, it seems. In the long run, entropy wins all bets.
Via @kevinbinversie.
Moe Lane
*…IN HIS FREEZER. Sorry: that was kind of nostalgic of me.
Reminds me of the good old days when Obama won his first race after the machine had every other Democrat candidate, including the incumbent, removed from the ballot.