" 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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Two of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.'s staunchest supporters over the years say it's the nation's loss that Jackson decided it was time for him to resign. Congressmen Bobby Rush and Danny Davis spoke to reporters in Chicago on Wednesday, hours after their ...
Read moreNo 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 ...
Read moreCongressmen Danny Davis and Bobby Rush said the resignation of Jesse Jackson, Jr., was a loss not only for the South Side but the whole nation. "We think that it's an unfortunate and sad day," Bobby Rush said at a press conference Wednesday. Offering a ...
Read morewho has known him since he was a kid through his dad; the present and incoming Congressional Black Caucus chairs, and colleagues Danny Davis and Bobby Rush, the other African Americans in the Illinois delegation, who have always given Jackson the benefit o ...
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