A powerful voice in Black politics and a longtime civil rights leader. Elijah Cummings passed away of health complications. |
The reasons why Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held off an impeachment vote came to reality today.
While the Democratic debate was going on, Pelosi took the impeachment vote off the table. That was bringing conspiracies among the left and right to why she pulled. Well something happened and she kept quiet until now.
As a powerful member of House Oversight Committee, Elijah Cummings have clashed with Trump and Republicans over numerous controversies. |
He died from longstanding health challenges at the John Hopkins Hospital in downtown Baltimore.
The son of a sharecropper, Cummings became the powerful chairman of the U.S. House committee investigating Trump and former president Barack Obama. Cummings was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his Black-majority congressional district which encompasses a large portion of the city of Baltimore and the well-off suburbs.
Throughout his career, Cummings used his fiery voice to highlight the struggles and needs of inner-city residents. He was a firm believer in some much-debated approaches to help the poor and addicted, such as needle-exchanges programs and a way to end the spread of AIDS.
Cummings was a civil rights activist, lawmaker and father. He was married to Maryland Democratic Party chairwoman Maya Rockeymoore and has three children.
Born in 1951, Cummings was told that he was too slow and spoke poorly, and he would never fulfill his dream of becoming a lawyer. Cummings wanted to prove critics wrong.
He was elected to serve the U.S. House in 1997 and rose to become the top-man on one of the most powerful chairman committees in the House.
Cummings leaves behind his wife Maya Rockeymore Cummings and three children. |
He was a target of coonservatives Kimberly Klack and Terrence K. Williams this year. They were promoting far-white propaganda and gaslighting. Klack took video of a poor section of Baltimore and claimed that Cummings was responsible for the problems.
Trump responded by criticizing the Democrat's district as a "rodent-infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." The comments came weeks after Trump drew bipartisan condemnation following his calls for Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the U.S. "right now," and go back to their "broken and crime-infested countries."
Cummings replied that government officials must stop making "hateful, incendiary comments" that only serve to divide and distract the nation from its real problems, including mass shootings and white supremacy.
"Those in the highest levels of the government must stop invoking fear, using racist language and encouraging reprehensible behavior," Cummings said in a speech at the National Press Club.
Cummings' long career spanned decades in Maryland politics. He rose through the ranks of the Maryland House of Delegates before winning his congressional seat in a special election in 1996 to replace former lawmaker Kweisi Mfume, who left the seat to lead the NAACP.
Cummings was an early supporter of Barack Obama's presidential bid in 2008. By 2016, Cummings was the senior Democrat on the House Benghazi Committee, which he said was "nothing more than a taxpayer-funded effort to bring harm to Hillary Clinton's campaign" for president.
Maryland governor Larry Hogan will hold a special election to have someone replace Cummings.
The Republican governor will have to issue a select date for a candidate to replace. I am only assuming that Klack is going to coon her way into this race. She has been licking her chops since the viral video.
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