Vintage Tribune: Considering his political zigzagging, assigning longtime congressman Bobby Rush his final grade is no mean trick.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush poses for photographs next to a statue of gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the opening ceremony of Mahalia Jackson Court on West 79th Street, Sept. 2, 2022, in Chicago.
Sixty years ago, Black leaders didn’t dare question the Democratic machine. They quietly accepted the white political bosses’ crumbs.Rush probably couldn’t guess who that would be when he first crossed paths with Barack Obama in 2000, as the young political upstart made a bid for Rush’s seat in a largely African American and working-class congressional district.
Money being scarce in his mother’s household, he dropped out of high school and joined the Army. He was motivated by President John F. Kennedy’s call for young people to devote themselves to public service.Assigned to an anti-aircraft base in Chicago, he encountered a vocally racist commanding officer from Alabama, then went AWOL when the Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. As the West Side erupted in rioting, he found his way into the Black Panthers.
Attempting to cover up the crime, Hanrahan said the occupants shot first. The Tribune bought into the lie, printing a photo of supposed bullet-exit holes in the door. In reality, they were nail heads. When Harold Washington, until then a machine loyalist, mounted an independent campaign for mayor in 1983, Rush ran for 2nd Ward alderman. Both won, shocking the city’s political establishment.
When Washington died shortly after being reelected to a second term, the machine regained City Hall, and Rush was earmarked for political limbo. He also mounted a quixotic campaign to preserve the late mayor’s heritage. It was provoked by a School of the Art Institute student who painted a portrait of Washington wearing women’s underwear.
Hayes counterpunched, alleging that Rush had stiffed his ex-wife the child support due her. “Not one child has gone hungry because of what we did in the House on these bank overdrafts as you call them.”“Being sworn into Congress after almost being murdered by police officers, that’s a giant step,” Rush said in January 1993, noting that, “25 years ago he thought he would be dead by now. ”
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