Shomari Figures: “We know what happened with this district. But we had a job to do. And so we put our hands to the plow and we did not…”

Opportunities are not abound in many places that we represent.

And Montgomery tonight, we made that point loud.

When I first heard Jackson Hospital was closing, or that they were thinking of closing, the first thing I did was I got on a plane … and I convened the governor’s office, the city, the county, the Blue Cross Blue Shield representatives…

We know what they have done to our district. We know what they have tried to do to our district.