Talk:David Bonior

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The image that was previously posted on this Wikipedia page for David Bonior is actually an image of Ed Rowe, not David Bonior. Ed Rowe, pastor of Central United Methodist Church in Detroit, and David Bonior look very similar. These links are to images of Ed Rowe:
 * Metro Times Article
 * MLK Day at Central United Methodist Church in Detroit

These are links to David Bonior:
 * CNN image
 * nndb.com


 * I guess I wanted to place him at the anti-war rally. The streak of black in his beard should've given me a clue that I had misidentified him. I've never seen him in person except on the WSU campus. Del arte 20:16, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

2002 Redistricting
I squandered a half of or so of my life looking into the 2002 Congressional redistricting in Michigan. The article originally implied that Bonior's only two chocies would be to run in the new version of the 10th District, or in the 12th District (into which is his hometown of Mount Clemens had been moved. Actually he could have moved to any Congressional District in the state, and probably would have been well-known in any of those areas, being a high-profile national figure.  (He could have theoretically have done so without actually moving to a new house: the Constitution just says that you have to be a resident of the state where your Congressional District is located.)  In any case, what happened after the 2000 Census in Michigan was that the state lost a seat (15 instead of 16) and the Republicans wanted to create a second Republican seat in the outer suburbs.  They also created a second "majority-minority" (and solidly Democratic) seat in Detroit proper and the inner suburbs. The upshot of all this was that two incumbent Democrats saw their districts vanish: Bonior and Lynn Rivers. Rivers ran for re-election and lost to John Dingell. This is pure speculation, but Bonior's best option would have been to run for the new 13th District, which is the more prosperous half of the city proper plus the suburbs along the Detroit River, and which has been represented by Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick throughout the past decade. That would have been awkward because the 13th was one of the two majority-minority districts. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 15:29, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Controversies Section
I removed this Controversies, because it is not clear (at least to me) what is the controversy. Members of Congress go on junkets all the time, so I don't see what is the controversy. Victor Victoria (talk) 02:56, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

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