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Rhiannon12866

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13. I realized it would be unlikely because of his age but John Conyers has long been a hero around here
Sun Jun 7, 2015, 06:55 AM
Jun 2015

He was extremely proactive during the Bush* years, spoke up and out for us when no one else would. If you notice, we have a John Conyers avatar. There was once a call for all DUers to change to a John Conyers avatar and so many did that you could no longer tell us apart, LOL.

And did you know that John Conyers is a DUer and has posted here? I think it was only once, but he went to the trouble of registering and posting and it got a lot of attention. I couldn't help noticing that the first poster who replied to the congressman had a John Conyers avatar...

Here he is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=profile&uid=171568

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