Obama: Illinois State Senate Confrontation, June 2002 On June 11, 2002, as a state senator, Obama and fellow state senator Rickey Hendon nearly threw down on the senate floor. At issue was a bill that would close a child-welfare office in Hendon’s district. Obama voted in favor of the bill—accidentally, he claims—but Hendon was irate. “There’s a rift between the African-Americans on the West Side and South Side here in Chicago,” says David Mendell, Tribune reporter and author of an Obama biography. “They’re competitive, and [Hendon] was saying that Obama voted against his project because he wanted to placate some...
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