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A Left-vs.-Left House Battle, Funded by a Split Over Israel [1]

['Jonathan Weisman']

Date: 2024-02-12  

The St. Louis County prosecutor challenging Representative Cori Bush for her House seat in Missouri began his day Thursday being interviewed by a prominent Black radio personality in St. Louis.

The prosecutor, Wesley Bell, then went on to lecture a sociology class at St. Louis Community College, where he once taught criminal justice, and had lunch at a soul food restaurant in Ferguson, peaceful now nearly a decade after protests there practically created the Black Lives Matter movement.

He met that afternoon with laborers’ unions, stopped by a Vietnamese community celebration of the Lunar New Year, and ended well into the night at the North County Democrats Club, in suburban Hazelwood.

“If you call me, I’m going to pick up,” Mr. Bell, 49, assured members of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, whose leaders once endorsed Ms. Bush and now back her challenger, Mr. Bell. “And if you want me to show up, I’m going to show up.”

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/cori-bush-aipac.html

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