The papers really have been covering Vincent Morgan's run against congressman Charles Rangel. Today's New York Times compares Morgan to a young Rangel in 1970 as he challenged Adam Clayton Powell Jr:"A 40-year-old challenger wages a grass-roots Democratic primary campaign against a popular Harlem congressman who has been entrenched for decades and for whom he once worked. The upstart says the incumbent, who has been dogged by a Congressional ethics investigation, is “still living in the realm of his past accomplishments” and that distractions have left the 15th District “unrepresented.”
Vincent Morgan is the same age as Rangel when he achieved that historic moment in Harlem politics but new politician will have a tougher climb because of the many differences. Rangel was a very established elected official at the time he defeated Adam Clayton Powell Jr and currently has a war chest that hulks over Morgan's funds raised from small donations and a personal loan.
One point lightly touched upon in the article is also that Vincent Morgan is the son of Teneesse politician John Ford. Born to a single mother in Chicago, Vincent Morgan would receive the name of his step father who married his mother a year after his birth. The young Morgan would not know of his ties to the Ford family until he was 13 years of age. More recently, Vincent Morgan's cousin, Harold Ford Jr. has also appeared in New York politics by currently running against Kirstin Gilibrand for the Senate seat. The two are apparently very different and are not at all close.
Read more in the NY Times article: LINK or the Ford family connection here: LINK. Photo by Hiroko Masuike
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