{"id":1184671,"date":"2022-01-03T19:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184671"},"modified":"2022-01-03T19:34:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T00:34:47","slug":"long-time-illinois-rep-bobby-rush-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/long-time-illinois-rep-bobby-rush-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Time Illinois Rep Bobby Rush Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flong-time-illinois-rep-bobby-rush-retires%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184671&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Fifteen-term Democratic Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush will retire following the 2022 midterms, he told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Rush, age 75, cited a desire to spend more time with his family in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want my grandchildren \u2026 to know me from a television news clip or something they read in a newspaper,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/metro-state\/2022\/1\/3\/22865665\/bobby-rush-retire\">said<\/a>. \u201cI want them to know me on an intimate level, know something about me and I want to know something about them. I don\u2019t want to be a historical figure to my grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepBobbyRush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepBobbyRush<\/a> tells the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suntimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Suntimes<\/a> he will not seek another term. My story. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NJYnjoN5JH\">https:\/\/t.co\/NJYnjoN5JH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lynn Sweet (@lynnsweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lynnsweet\/status\/1478148503260045315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Entering Congress in 1992, Rush sits on the Energy and Commerce and Agriculture committees. He chairs the Energy subcommittee. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/12\/chicago-police-bobby-rush-campaign-office-relax-george-floyd-protests\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Congressman Accuses Chicago Police Of Relaxing, Eating Popcorn In His Office During Riots)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rush was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/rep-rush-to-revisit-black-panther-history\/52673\/\">founding<\/a> member of the Illinois Black Panther Party, but left the group in 1974, shortly after graduating from Chicago\u2019s Roosevelt University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started glorifying thuggery and drugs,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/archive\/change-of-heart-vol-53-no-20\/\">said<\/a> of the Panthers in a 2000 interview with People magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his role in the militant group, Rush became a prominent <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180215184923\/https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/fathers-anguished-journey-164318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advocate<\/a> for gun control after his son was murdered in a robbery gone bad.<\/p>\n<p>Rush is the 35th <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/casualty-list\">member<\/a> of the House of Representatives to decline to run for re-election in 2022, and the 24th Democrat. He is also the third member of Illinois\u2019 congressional delegation to retire, joining Democrat Cheri Bustos and Republican Adam Kinzinger.<\/p>\n<p>Rush\u2019s seat, Illinois\u2019 First, includes Chicago\u2019s South Side and surrounding suburbs. It is expected to remain in Democratic hands even after Rush\u2019s retirement, following <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/15\/illinois-democrats-maximize-seats-axe-republicans-new-congressional-map\/\">redistricting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen-term Democratic Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush will retire following the 2022 midterms, he told the Chicago Sun-Times on Monday.Rush, age 75, cited a desire to spend more time with his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}