Before Jasmine Crockett teased her Senate, her pastor announced he would be entering the political arena.
Dr. Frederick Haynes III, who has served as the lead pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church since 1983, filed paperwork on Monday (Dec. 8) to run in Texas’ 30th Congressional District. The current occupant of that seat? Congresswoman Crockett.
“Jasmine Crockett right now is my congressperson, but the way this thing has been cracked and packed in the racist redistricting, she’s no longer my congressperson,” Haynes told a committee on the issue of redistricting in Texas in September. “So much is being done here to hurt so many people when all we have to do is understand is, we are Texans. Well, let’s be proud of being Texans and not be Trumped in the process.” Read more at www.thegrio.com.
