- Andrea Bauer
- Danny Davis says he learned about power from his mother’s whuppings.
In the middle of campaign season for the March 18 Democratic primary, Congressman Danny Davis was recalling the time his father had saved the life of a cow. “My daddy was a sharecropper, a farmer, who finished the fourth grade when he was 19 years old,” Davis said. “He also turned out to be one of the most gifted individuals I’ve ever encountered. I have seen him do things, like amputate a calf’s leg without ever having any veterinary training at all.”
He’s running unopposed in the March 18 primary, but he’s also backing a former aide, Richard Boykin, in a tightly contested race for the county board. Boykin’s best-known opponent is Ike Carothers, a longtime Davis rival who’s trying to convince voters that his 2010 conviction for bribery doesn’t mean he sold them out.
After his mother passed away, his father eventually left the farm and spent the end of his life in Chicago, where he accompanied Davis wherever he could. He died at the age of 92 while visiting Davis in Washington.
