“You can sit back and point out the problems or you can address them and bring solutions to the table,” Jordan said, referring to chronic poverty and crime that afflicts his neighborhood.
Political observers note that two big obstacles lie in Jordan’s path to getting elected.
Michael Adams, a political scientist at Texas Southern University, a historically black college that is in the district Jordan wants to represent, says the rapper also has to convince the most dependable voting bloc in his neighborhood to vote for him — black women over 60. The 66-year-old sits on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees and the executive committee of the local NAACP, and she worked for the Houston Independent School District as as an education evaluation specialist.
But Gerry Monroe said Jordan's political outsider status is what attracted him to campaign for the rapper. “We have a serious gang issue in District D,” Monroe said this week outside of the polling station at the Sunnyside Multi Resource Center. As he spoke, a group of teenage boys down the street fought in a brawl that was quickly broken up when adults arrived.
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