[onyx]

Well whadaya know! Looks like more than a mere few of our black folks are making some grand announcements which might pick-up a whole lot of followers and supporters! I have prayed, and I continue to pray for their successes!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Alderman Robinson has some competition in the primary, so it isn't an automatic, but we're all pulling for him. I had hopes that we were going to send the one-two punch of Lynette Boggs-McDonald in NV and now State Rep. Jennifer Carroll in FL last year to succeed J.C., (and to a lesser extent, Buster Soaries in NJ in what SHOULD be a GOP seat, although he's a bit more "moderate"), but it was not to be. This Congress was the first since 1989 that went without a African-American GOP member, and hopefully it will be the last.