“We have a serious gang issue in District D,” Monroe said this week outside of the Sunnyside center. Wilson, clad in an Evans-Shabazz campaign T-shirt, said her preferred candidate has “always had a seat at the table.”īut Gerry Monroe said Jordan’s political outsider status is what attracted him to campaign for the rapper. “I know she’ll get our potholes filled, our ditches dug out and more police in the neighborhood,” 81-year-old Lula Wilson said outside of the Sunnyside Multi-Service Center, which is a polling place. While campaigning, voters ask him what he plans to do if he’s elected, but many can’t help themselves and ask to take a smartphone photo with him.

Thirty percent of the population earns less than $25,000 a year, and although that figure has risen over the past two decades, it’s still a plurality. 2017 data compiled by the current city council member, Dwight Boykins, says African Americans make up 53% percent of the district. With more than 200,000 residents, District D stretches into the south and southeast sides of Houston. “You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table,” Jordan said Tuesday, referring to chronic poverty and crime that afflicts his neighborhood. But he’s hoping he can persuade the voters who got him there to turn out again so he can represent the council’s District D. Jordan says he knows his celebrity carried him into a run-off election slated for Saturday.

Now, the 49-year-old rapper better known as Scarface is working to ensure Houston voters that no, their minds are not playing tricks on them: He is running for City Council, and he’s a serious candidate. HOUSTON (AP) - As a member of Houston’s pioneering rap group The Geto Boys, Brad Jordan co-wrote the early 1990s hip-hop anthem “Mind Playing Tricks on Me.” Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.

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