(A damning article on a member of Biden's transition team.)
Richmond, the 46-year-old congressman, has represented the residents of
Reserve, and most of the people living in a densely polluted area
between New Orleans and Baton Rouge referred to as Cancer Alley, for
almost a decade. A rising star in the Democratic party, who now
co-chairs former vice-president Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign,
Richmond is the lone Democrat in Louisiana’s delegation to Washington.
He has won successive elections here campaigning on healthcare
expansion, voting rights and criminal justice reform. A charismatic and
chisel-jawed politician, he has seen his congressional seat in
Washington turn into a Democratic stronghold in the deeply Republican south.
Sign up to the Green Light email to get the planet's most important
stories
Read more
Hampton and Taylor say they were told that Richmond would sit down with
them and hear about the years-long fight for clean air in their
hometown. But they only got two minutes.
“Looking at his face, it didn’t really seem like he was interested,”
Hampton recalled. “It was like he was trying to brush us off.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/12/louisiana-democrat-cedric-richmond-cancer-town
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#1384): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1384
Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76761067/21656
-=-=-
POSTING RULES & NOTES
#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.
#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.
#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern.
-=-=-
Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io
Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy
[arch...@mail-archive.com]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
