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Alcee Hastings, the longtime Congressman who served South Florida for decades and fought for civil rights, has died at 84 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
The Sun Sentinel first reported his death.
First elected in 1992, Hastings was in his 15th term in Congress representing District 20, which includes parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties. He won re-election in November.
Since his election to Congress as the first African-American from Florida since the post-Civil War period, Congressman Hastings has been an outspoken advocate for Floridians and our nation as a whole, the Democrats official bio reads. Throughout his lifetime, Congressman Hastings has championed the rights of minorities, women, the elderly, children, and immigrants.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/04/06/alcee-hastings-longtime-congressman-dies-at-84/
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)In It to Win It
(8,222 posts)SheilaAnn
(9,685 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,711 posts)RIP
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,813 posts)Carlitos Brigante
(26,494 posts)superpatriotman
(6,246 posts)An important ally. RIP.
question everything
(47,425 posts)Special elections? If yes, in the summer?
With our majority continuing to decrease, at age 84 and with cancer, in hindsight- always 20/20 - I wish that he did not run last November in a safe D district.
JohnSJ
(92,060 posts)for a special election, and desantis is most likely not going to push that since it is a very Democratic district
We are one less representative until a special election or the midterms
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/2021/04/06/what-happens-when-congressman-dies-how-hastings-seat-filled/7106562002/
Demsrule86
(68,455 posts)very worrisome for the the here and now. We have a razer thin majority in Congress.