Davis, Rush: Jackson Didn't "Dupe" Constituents

November 21, 2012 9:58 PM
Davis, Rush: Jackson Didn't

" No one was "duped" into believing Jesse Jackson Jr. would be back to serve in Congress, two colleagues said Wednesday after Jackson's resignation.

"I think that this is a process that nobody really knew exactly what was going to happen. I don't think he knew what was going to happen," said 1st District Rep. Bobby Rush. "I think that we were all praying for him and optimistic that he would be able to recover and that the other issues that was before him, that those issues would not affect him that much."

Jackson resigned Wednesday amid a federal investigation into his finances "

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