CHICAGO - While a lot of focus has been on New York's newest Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her widely-publicized promotion of socialism, little - if any - attention is being paid to a Chicago Democrat that will be sworn into the U.S. House Wednesday. His name is Jesus "Chuy" Garcia. He's succeeding radical Leftist Luis Gutierrez in representing the highly Latino 4th CD. Garcia - who failed ousting Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2015 - has a farther Left history than Ocasio-Cortez.
Garcia's political history long history is closely tied with and heavily involved in Illinois' prominent Communist Party - one that President Barack Obama at one time connected with, writes Epoch Times' writer Trevor Loudon. -- More...