Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) made a lively presentation at a WAIP-WISH policy salon last night. In addition to the autumn 2009 class of Glenn Fellows, three of whom happen to reside in Rep. Fudge's 11th Congressional district, the audience of approximately 30 included a number of participants in the Congressional Black Caucus's fellows program. Lynn Jennings and Ervin Johnson of the CBCF and Dan Lewis of WISH also were in the audience.
Rep. Fudge talked movingly about her youth on Cleveland's east side, where she was raised by a single mother with significant assistance from church members--and later, while she was attending Shaker Heights schools--from a kindly restauranteur who provided lunch every day because her mother was at work and the school she attended had no cafeteria.
In her remarks about public policy, Rep. Fudge made an eloquent case for taking care not to strive for perfection in legislation. As she put it, we mustn't "let the perfect be the enemy of the good."
The Congresswoman is pictured above with members of the audience and with her three Glenn Fellow constituents--from left to right, Josh Kramer, Liz Hagan, and Jessica Meeker.
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