Bobby Rush
Bobby Rush
Bobby Lee Rushis the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 1st congressional district, serving in Congress for more than two decades; he was first elected in 1992 and took office in 1993. He has since won consecutive re-election. The district was located principally on the South Side of Chicago, with a population from 2003 to early 2013 that was 65% African-American, a higher proportion than any other congressional district in the nation. In 2011 the Republican-dominated legislature redistricted this area following the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 November 1946
CityAlbany, GA
CountryUnited States of America
How ridiculous, how asinine, how insane can one be?!
I want to cross over, not cross out.
I'll be talking with the chairman of the transportation committee when i get back to Washington to see whether or not there's anything that can be done to look at this particular piece of track.
This is precisely the kind of insensitive, hurtful and ignorant rhetoric that Americans have grown tired of.
If in fact New Orleans were populated by middle-class whites, then you would have seen a far different response.
There are communities that are moving forward now because (the Community Reinvestment Act) ... was the economic engine.