Kwesi Mfume to seek congressional seat vacated by death of Elijah Cummings

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4. Maya is also chair of the MD Democratic Party

so she is definitely political! WaPo had an article about her interest last week -

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings is ‘thinking carefully’ about running for her late husband’s congressional seat



By Ovetta Wiggins
Oct. 31, 2019 at 7:15 p.m. EDT

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, said Thursday that she is “thinking carefully” about whether she should run for the 7th District seat her husband held for more than two decades. It is the first public comment Rockeymoore Cummings has made about her intentions since Cummings (D-Md.) died Oct. 17.

“I love Baltimore City, the counties of the 7th Congressional District, and the state of Maryland,” Rockeymoore Cummings said in a text. “I’m deeply committed to public service and I’m honored by the widespread encouragement I’ve received to continue Elijah’s amazing legacy. As I mourn the loss of my husband, I’m thinking carefully about the future and will make an announcement very soon.”

A special election to select a successor to the congressman will be held in April. Rockeymoore Cummings is the chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, serving in that role for nearly a year. In October 2017, she launched a bid for governor before dropping out of the race less than three months later. She cited “personal considerations.” At the time she ended her campaign, Elijah Cummings was being treated at Johns Hopkins Hospital for a bacterial infection in his knee.

Rockeymoore Cummings, a policy consultant, holds a doctorate in political science from Purdue University and has more than two decades of experience working in the public and private sectors, including as chief of staff to then-Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), senior resident scholar for health and income security at the National Urban League, and vice president of research and programs at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She started Global Policy Solutions, a social-change strategy firm, in 2005.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/maya-rockeymoore-cummings-is-thinking-carefully-about-running-for-her-late-husbands-congressional-seat/2019/10/31/8c4425e2-fc26-11e9-8906-ab6b60de9124_story.html