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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

House Ethics Panel Probing Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush for 20 Years of Free Office Space

Warner Todd Huston 10 Nov 2014

In the 1960s, Bobby Rush made a name for himself as a vocal member of the Black Panther Party serving as the Chicago-based group’s “defense minister.”

In 1969, after Black Panther militant leader Fred Hampton was killed by Chicago Police, Bobby Rush rallied the extremist group by urging them to arm themselves and go kill “the pigs.”

Rush spent six months in jail in 1972 on a weapons charge but earned a degree in political science from the University of Illinois in 1974. He was first elected to Congress in 1992 and has been serving since he took office in 1993. Rush was elected to a seat on the Chicago City Council in 1983 and served for nearly ten years.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/11/10/house-ethics-panel-probing-chicago-congressman-bobby-rush-for-20-years-of-free-office-space/


28 posted on 07/10/2016 7:56:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
"There comes a time in the history of every people when they become so pathologically soft and tender that they actually side with those elements of their society that harms them; i.e. criminals."- F. Nietzsche

The electorate actually sides with the criminals you mention-they elect them to office!

29 posted on 07/10/2016 8:19:41 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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