We love educating Americans about how their government works too! Last June, Quicken Loans paid $32 million to settle charges brought by the Justice Department that it had approved hundreds of loans for unqualified borrowers, and then profited when the borrowers defaulted. On November 29, 2018, Jones was sworn in to the 115th Congress by Speaker Ryan. Brenda Jones speaks at a meeting in Auburn Hills, Mich., on Jan. 6, 2014.
When the longtime incumbent resigned, several members of prominent Detroit political dynasties, including state senator Coleman Young II, the son of the first African-American mayor of Detroit, and members of Conyers’s own family, quickly announced their candidacies. “Do you want to put all your eggs in one basket, like Dan Gilbert-sized office parks, or do you try to do other things where you’re not putting so many eggs in one basket — where you’re doing public transit, public infrastructure, health, and education, all the things that benefit lots of employers and don’t put you at risk of any one company’s business plan not working out?”. A firebrand competitor with name recognition in Congress, Tlaib has seen her political star rise during her short tenure in D.C. Jones, however, narrowly lost the Democratic primary for the general election to the 116th Congress: Tlaib won with 31 percent of the vote, and Jones came in second with 30 percent. Now she's ready to do it again. [externalActionCode] => 1000 [description] => Introduced better than
“And that’s why I say I am the best person. They have too much power over our neighborhood. I have been on council for 15 years. 5“These Council Hopefuls Should Be in General Election,” 30 July 2017, Detroit Free Press: A16. The $250 million from the city council allowed Gilbert, the owner and co-founder of Quicken Loans, to continue an ambitious redevelopment of downtown Detroit through his real estate company, Bedrock. You can try your luck by visiting Jones’s website. Attic, Thomas Jefferson BuildingWashington, D.C. 20515(202) 226-1300, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives, United States House of Representatives: History, Art, & Archives, Origins & Development: From the Constitution to the Modern House, Joint Meetings, Joint Sessions, & Inaugurations, Presidents, Vice Presidents, & Coinciding Sessions of Congress, Foreign Leaders and Dignitaries Who Have Addressed the U.S. Congress, Individuals Who Have Lain in State or Honor, Calendars of the House of Representatives, Search Historical Highlights of the House, Chief Administrative Officers of the House, John W. McCormack Annual Award of Excellence to Congressional Employees, House Members Who Became U.S. Supreme Court Justices, House Members Who Received Electoral College Votes, Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress, Jeannette Rankin’s Historic Election: A Century of Women in Congress, Florence Kahn: Congressional Widow to Trailblazing Lawmaker, Campaign Collectibles: Running for Congress, Electronic Technology in the House of Representatives, The People’s House: A Guide to Its History, Spaces, and Traditions, An Annual Outing: The Congressional Baseball Game, Mace of the U.S. House of Represen- tatives, National History Day 2020: Resource Guide, Time for a Tour: Visiting the People’s House, Researching the House: Other Primary Sources, https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/J/JONES,-Brenda-(J000303)/.
Between 2011 and 2016, Gilbert and his affiliated companies spent $451 million purchasing parcels of land in downtown Detroit. 9“Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones to Run for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District”; “Duggan Backs Jones to Replace Conyers.”, 10“Michigan Primary Election Results,” 24 September 2018, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/07/us/elections/results-michigan-primary-elections.html; Weigel, “Michigan Democrats Elect Detroit City Council President to Fill out Final Weeks of John Conyers’s Term.”.
This meant that the vacancy would last more than 10 months. If you’re contesting power in Detroit, you’re contesting Dan Gilbert.”. On the same night Jones was catapulted through a special election to replace the longest-serving African American congressman in U.S. history, Rashida Tlaib won the regular Democratic Primary, taking over Conyer’s seat in January of 2019. “I plan to be the one to return back to the 13th congressional seat.”.
Jones was re-elected president in January 2018 on the seventh ballot, again 5 to 4. “So I am ready. In the immediate aftermath of the primary, Jones faced the prospect of having to resign as city council president to serve out Conyers’s remaining weeks in the 115th Congress. [externalActionCode] => 1000 “You have to be able to build coalitions,” Jones contends.
(2018); SHELTER Act of 2018, H.R. Who would hold party elites accountable to the values they proclaim to have? Gilbert is the richest man in Michigan, with a net worth of $7.3 billion. ( Gilbert’s entrance into Detroit began in 2011 when Quicken Loans moved its headquarters to downtown from Livonia in the Michigan suburbs.