Ok. Here's what we know so far. John Conyers, lifetime congressman from Detroit, apparently has a government issued vehicle. God knows why. It's a Cadillac Escalade. We know why - GM. His son took it into downtown Detroit at 11:30 last Wednesday night. We now know why.

U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, said he didn't know his son, John III, was driving his government-provided Cadillac Escalade last week when someone broke into it and stole two computers and $27,000 worth of concert tickets.

Of course he didn't.

“I have just learned about the inappropriate use of a congressional vehicle by my son over the Thanksgiving holiday,” Conyers said today in a statement. “I am sorry it happened and will make sure that it does not happen again. I will review the full circumstances of the use of this vehicle and make restitution to the Treasury for any non-official use.”

Was young Conyers shopping for Turkey?

According to a police report obtained by Myfoxdetroit.com, the younger Conyers walked into Detroit Police Headquarters at about 3:10 a.m. on Thanksgiving to report a larceny from an automobile. He told police he parked a 2010 burgundy Escalade at Brush and Congress in downtown Detroit about 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

When he returned about an hour later, he discovered that someone had broken into the vehicle and stolen two Apple laptop computers and 1,000 concert tickets valued at $27,500.

A thousand concert tickets. Wait a sec. This is Detroit. Don't tell me they were tickets to a rap concert.

The tickets were for a Dec. 26 concert at the Fillmore Detroit featuring local rap artist Big Sean.

John Conyers III is using our red Cadillac SUV s looks like a big man while he distributes concert tickets for a local rap act. Conyers is 20. The congressman is 81.

“The tickets that were stolen were intended to be distributed to select retail locations as a Sponsorship & Marketing initiative on the big Black Friday' shopping day,” said Benjamin Doughty, general manager of the Fillmore, which was formerly known as the State Theatre.

There is no room to cut budgets, Democrats love to tell us. They've already been cut to the bone. There are people behind those programs, you know.