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2019-11-15 Home Front: Politix

Elijah Cummings' wife announces bid for his Baltimore seat

[REUTERS] The wife of the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings

...Late Representative-for-life from Maryland, representing half of Baltimore City, which made his district ultra-safe, and most of Howard County, which is way out-populated by the city. His shiny pate was the reason we pronounced the city name Baldymore. Cummings' politix were so liberal they're tedious, nor was he any more honest than the next seedy professional pol...
, who played a key role in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry until his death last month, formally launched a bid on Tuesday for his congressional seat in Baltimore.
Wowsers! Not a mention in the entire article of her troubles with fraud and corruption charges!
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, 48, announced her candidacy to serve out the remainder of her husband’s term in Maryland’s 7th Congressional District a day after resigning her post as chair of the state’s Democratic Party.

She ran for governor in 2017 but dropped out of the race after her husband was hospitalized in January 2018.

Rockeymoore Cummings said on MSNBC on Monday that she and her spouse, who were married in 2008, had discussed the possibility of her succeeding him months ago as his health declined, and he encouraged her to run should he die.
"Ya gotta carry on as my successor, Maya, otherwise you'll have to get a real job"
She revealed in a separate Baltimore Sun interview that she was going through with a preventive double mastectomy planned for Friday, as scheduled and discussed with her husband before his death.