'I don’t think anyone is truly surprised he would do this given the possibility of what the incoming administration will possibly pursue.”
Shomari Figures speaks ahead of a panel discussion during a campaign event on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, at Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala.President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son, Hunter, is within the president’s prerogative and while it’s the “hot button” issue of the moment, it will do nothing to bring jobs and health care to the 2nd congressional district, said Democratic U.S. Rep.-elect Shomari Figures .Tuesday.
“At the end of the day, this is one of those things that as hot button of an issue it is and as glamorous of an issue as it is, it will do not one thing to keep hospitals open in Alabama or get that bridge built in Mobile or other priorities across the district,” Figures said, referring to rural hospital closures within his congressional district and the $3.5 billion I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway project that still needs additional funding.
President Joe Biden talks with his son Hunter Biden as he arrives Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. . The president wrote that “no reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s case can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out because he is my son -- and that is wrong.”
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