Primadonna Monica: Be Careful What You Sign

Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in jail yesterday. For that, she is livid; surprise, surprise. Now she wants to withdraw her guilty plea.

Fat chance, say most legal experts. She signed an plea bargained agreement which makes any effort to rescind her guilty plea virtually impossible. Then the former Councilwoman attempted to play off her role as wife and mother as reason for leniency.

No opportunity of portraying herself as the offended party will ever escape Ms. Conyers. "What have my kids done to deserve this?". she laments. "My husband is an older man," she said as well. But what do either of those points have to do with the facts of the matter? If she did the crime, she's got to do the time. There may be a lesson in that for her kids. As for her husband, the longtime Congressman from Detroit, John Conyers, well. it's doubtful that he wants to do anything except get all the sideshow surrounding his wife behind him. He surely doesn't need her to hold his hand while he tries to hold all those evil Republicans at bay in Washington.

You get what you pay for, Ms. Conyers. Or in this case, what you were paid for. Treat yourself to a new toothbrush.

Monica Conyers: Yet Another Detroit Disaster.

When will it end? The Common Council of the city of Detroit has been striken with another legal bombshell: Monica Conyers has been hit with federal bribery charges, and it seems only a matter of time until she is forced from her seat.

Her all too typical reaction? Arrogance, this time in the form of asserting that anyone who does not pray for her to be saved from the current mess of her own making is not a 'child of God'.

Interestingly, she is right. Sort of. But certainly not for the reason she cites. We indeed ought to pray for her: not that she escape the prosecutor's noose necessarily (though it is of course more than acceptable to pray for that should she in fact be innocent of the allegations) but that she should see and accept whatever God wants for her in this debacle. Our prayers might be aimed for her to accept His Grace and take proper responsibility for herself and her actions. We might want to pray that she see the light, sees the embarrassment she has become to the city and her family and friends and give up the ghost.

We might want to pray that she stops seeing herself as the center of the creation and leave that role to He who actually is. Am I asking too much?

Maybe I am. In that case, let's hope that Ms. Conyers begins asking for enough.