Congressman Cedric Richmond - Louisiana
U.S. Representative Cedric Richmond announced today that before January 20th he will resign as a member of Congress to become a senior adviser to President-Elect Joe Biden.
“This new role will allow me to give advice to the President when he wants it, maybe sometimes when he doesn’t want it,” said Richmond.
Richmond says he’ll have an office in the West Wing and he says he’ll fight to bring much-needed federal resources to Louisiana.
“If we’re going to improve the lives of the people Louisiana then it’s going to come from investing into their lives. That’s going to take real resources and real money, and things that we don’t have here.”
The 47-year-old was first elected to Congress in 2010 after serving as a state representative in the Louisiana Legislature. He says it was not an easy decision to leave Congress after he was just re-elected to a sixth term.
“I do want you to know that I’m not leaving the people of Louisiana, I am not leaving the people of the second congressional district, I am New Orleans through and through and I bleed black and gold.”
Governor John Bel Edwards will call for a special election to fill Richmond’s seat. The vacancy is expected to draw a number of candidates.
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