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Thank you, Terri Sewell, and the Congressional Black Caucus!
Last edited Wed Dec 13, 2017, 09:46 AM - Edit history (1)
You did it! 
...Sewell has tapped fellow lawmakers with connections to the South or champions of civil rights and other issues particularly important to African Americans to campaign in the state.
The lineup includes South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop, Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a rising star in the Democratic Party and an advocate for criminal justice reform.
“Everybody is eager to do what they can to help,’’ said Sewell, who is also a member of the largely Democratic caucus. “It’s just about making sure that we mobilize and turnout out not only the African American vote, but really the millennials. We’re really trying to cast a wide net.”
Sewell, the lone Democrat and African American in Alabama’s congressional delegation, has been on a mission to help Jones, the Democratic nominee, in his bid to win the Senate seat. Jones and Sewell recently visited six black churches in Selma and plan to stop by another in Tuscaloosa this Sunday. Sewell also invited Jones to the caucus' annual legislative conference in Washington in September....
The lineup includes South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Georgia Rep. Sanford Bishop, Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a rising star in the Democratic Party and an advocate for criminal justice reform.
“Everybody is eager to do what they can to help,’’ said Sewell, who is also a member of the largely Democratic caucus. “It’s just about making sure that we mobilize and turnout out not only the African American vote, but really the millennials. We’re really trying to cast a wide net.”
Sewell, the lone Democrat and African American in Alabama’s congressional delegation, has been on a mission to help Jones, the Democratic nominee, in his bid to win the Senate seat. Jones and Sewell recently visited six black churches in Selma and plan to stop by another in Tuscaloosa this Sunday. Sewell also invited Jones to the caucus' annual legislative conference in Washington in September....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/01/sewell-calls-congressional-black-caucus-help-doug-jones/913776001/
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