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 HR45 Author Bobby Rush: AWOL from the army. Prison time.... 
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 Post subject: HR45 Author Bobby Rush: AWOL from the army. Prison time....
PostPosted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:04 pm 
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Now wait a second,something stinks there. Why was he not arrested and given a dishonorable for that? Oh let me guess that would be racist? :roll:
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Illinois Black Panther. Illinois author of gun ban.
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Bobby Rush (Dem)

Contact Information
Telephone: 202-225-4372 (Rayburn House Office)
Telephone: 773-224-6500 (Chicago Office)
Telephone: 708-385-9550 (Midlothian Office)
Fax: 202-226-0333
E-mail:
Website: http://www.house.gov/rush
Candidate Background
Birthdate: 1946-11-23
Birth place: Albany, GA
Residence: Chicago, IL
Religion: Baptist
First Elected: 1992
Candidacy
Party: Democratic
Office: House
State: IL
District: District 1
Status: Incumbent
Next Election: 2008
Campaign Finance Totals As Of 2008-03-31
Total Receipts: $310289
Ending Cash: $36502
Individual Contributions: $138805
PAC Contributions: $171473
Graduate Education: McCormick Theological Seminary
Major: Theological Studies
Degree: MA
Location: Chicago, IL
Undergraduate Education: Roosevelt University
Major: General Studies
Degree: BA
Location: Chicago, IL
Graduate Education: University of Illinois
Major: Political Science
Degree: MA
Location: Chicago, IL
Biography

Bobby Rush was born in Albany, Ga., and grew up and attended school in Chicago, where he still lives.

He volunteered for the U.S. Army from 1963 to 1968. He joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in 1966, while stationed in Chicago. He went AWOL in 1968, co-founded the state's Black Panther Party and later was honorably discharged.

He received a bachelor's degree from Roosevelt University in 1973. In 1983, he was elected Chicago city alderman. He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992.

He received a master's degree in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994. He became an ordained Baptist minister soon after finishing the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago in 1998 and serves as a pastor of the Beloved Community Christian Church.

Rush and his wife, Carolyn, have five children. A sixth child, son Huey Rich, from a former relationship, was shot to death in 1999. Two men were convicted in his robbery and killing.
Profile

Bobby Rush's political evolution could be the most dramatic in the U.S. House.

The onetime Black Panther now finds himself invited to join Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert on a trip to China. The once-radical activist has joined Republican Rep. Henry Hyde to change how foreign nurses receive green cards to work in urban hospitals. And his wife even works for State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, the 2006 GOP nominee for governor.

The process, though, has been anything but smooth and he has hardly abandoned his principles. He collaborates with Republicans but doesn't shy from blocking Sudan's embassy driveways to protest what he calls a genocide.

In his youth, he volunteered for the Army but went AWOL in 1968 and co-founded the Illinois Black Panthers following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

His connection to the Black Panther Party began unraveling shortly after a 1969 police raid that killed deputy chairman Fred Hampton, 20, and Mark Clark, 21. Rush had left only hours before.

Rush ran a medical clinic that developed the nation's first mass sickle cell anemia testing program. He also served six months in prison for illegal possession of firearms.

He was criticized by some in his community for being too closely aligned with white power brokers. Rush decided he could accomplish more from within the establishment. He became an alderman on the same day Harold Washington became Chicago's first black mayor in 1983.

After his 1992 election to the U.S. House, he made an effort to develop relationships that could prove helpful on his agenda.

"In moments like this, I wish we had more black Republicans who were in a position where they sort of would be able to further the agenda of the African-Americans in the Republican Party," he said in a 2005 AP interview.

Rush introduced a 1993 bill that would have banned handguns for anyone who was not in law enforcement and added an increase in the licensing fee for gun dealers from $10 to $3,000.

He has ardently opposed proposals that could adversely effect his economically struggling constituents. He was so angry that President Clinton signed the 1996 welfare legislation, his wife had to talk him out of throwing away his delegate credential for the 1996 Democratic National Convention.

Rush, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, was a co-sponsor of legislation that calls for congressional hearings to weigh whether the government should provide restitution to the descendants of slaves.

More recently, he introduced legislation calling on the Justice Department to investigate the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicagoan who was brutally beaten to death in Mississippi in 1955.

In 2004, the U.S. Justice Department reopened the Till murder investigation.

Rush, an opponent of capital punishment, supported former Illinois Gov. George Ryan's actions that pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 160 death row inmates.

In July 2004, Rush was arrested during a rally at the Sudanese embassy in Washington, accusing the government of the African nation of practicing genocide. The U.S. Secret Service arrested him on misdemeanor charges and led away in handcuffs while he shouted "Power to the people! Power to Sudan!"

Within a half hour, he was released on $50 bond.

Rush is not blindly loyal to fellow black politicians. In 2004, he backed white millionaire Blair Hull in the Democratic primary over Chicago state Sen. Barack Obama, who is black. Obama challenged Rush in a Democratic primary four years earlier.

In early 2006, Rush opposed stalling or defeating a measure to rename a portion of a Chicago street in honor of slain Black Panther leader Hampton. Rush is also the Democratic committeeman for the 2nd Ward, where the honorary street designation would exist.

The American Conservative Union gave Rush's 2005 voting record 4 points out of 100. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gave him 100 points.
Campaigns

Bobby Rush first was elected to the U.S. House in 1992. He defeated incumbent Rep. Charles Hayes in the Democratic primary and won the general election with 82 percent of the vote.

He defeated Republican William Kelly in 1994 with 75 percent of the vote. In 1996, he was re-elected with 85 percent of the vote against Republican Noel Naughton. In 1998, Rush defeated Republican Marlene White Ahimaz with 87 percent of the vote.

He lost a 1999 bid to unseat Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, receiving only 28 percent of the vote, including 45 percent of the black vote.

In 2000, Rush easily won a fifth congressional term against Republican Raymond Wardingley, a retired clown, after fighting off two serious challengers for a solid primary win, somewhat vindicating his crushing loss in the mayoral bid. He again defeated Wardingley in 2002 with 81 percent and in 2004 with 85 percent of the vote.

In the 2006 Democratic primary, Rush defeated Philip Jackson of Chicago. In the general election, he will face Jason E. Tabour of Evergreen Park.

Bobby Rush was elected Chicago city alderman in 1983 and was re-elected twice.

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