Ms. Conyers recently attended a political breakfast event regarding regionalism and race relations in southeast Michigan.  As usual she was suffering from diarrhea of the mouth, but amazingly a stunning, blunt truth sprang forth from her lips amid the normal misguided verbal food fight that she normally engages in.

"If you continue to have the same people, you never get new people with creative ideas."

And the truth shall set you free!  With that statement, Monica Conyers exposed the biggest problem in Detroit; no political accountability.  The same people and the same political party run the show in Detroit year after year.  Nothing changes.  Congratulations Monica, common sense seems to be slowly seeping into your brain.  She recognizes the negative impact of a political monopoly on the city.  Keep electing Democrats and nothing changes.  Simple.

Ironically, her husband is the best (worst?)example of what happens when you elect the same person over and over and over again.  Congressman John Conyers has been in office since 1964.  That's forty five years people.  Think about it.  Is Detroit better off now then it was 45 years ago?  I don't think so.  Not even close.

So, if Monica Conyers of all people can see this then certainly there is hope for Detroit.  After all, this is the same woman who lost an argument to an eighth grade girl and likes to brawl in bars.  We should rejoice at this faint glimmer of hope in a troubled city that is in desperate need of this type of thought.

Chad Miles was the 2006 Republican candidate in Michigan's 14th Congressional district and is a veteran of the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division.