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Bobby Rush Running For Re-Election

U.S. Democrats

Bobby Rush is running for re-election and says he won’t be resigning any time soon.

In his re-election announcement Friday, Rush made it biblical.

“Truly, I feel like Moses,” Rush said.

Rush says Pharoh’s army was chasing Moses. Rush says he’s being chased by people who want his Congressional seat.

And in front of Moses was the Red Sea, which Rush says is like the issues facing Chicago.

“The Red Sea of police brutality and murder,” Rush said. “The Red Sea of indifference of our issues. I intend to go forward into the Red Sea.”

Democrat Bobby Rush has represented Chicago’s South Side in Congress since 1993. He’s battled cancer in the past and his wife had been ill, which led to lots of speculation that Rush would not run.

Rush said he’ll serve “every single solitary millisecond” of his term should he win again. He says he wouldn’t resign just to have an influence over who his successor might be.

“I would never be involved in a political gamesmanship, brinksmanship, of that kind,” Rush said. “It’s beneath me.”

Chicago Alderman Howard Brookins says he’s challenging Rush in the primary.