President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team on Tuesday announced that Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., has been tapped as a senior adviser in the White House Office of Public Engagement -- leaving his House seat vacant and bringing with him a number of past controversies.
Richmond served as national co-chairman of the Biden-Harris campaign and currently is a co-chair of the Biden-Harris transition team. "The future has a habit of arriving unannounced, and I am here to announce the hardest decision of my life,” Richmond said in a statement. “Before Jan.
20, I will resign my seat in the United States Congress and take a position in the Biden-Harris administration.” But Richmond has faced controversy in the past, some of which emerged in his 2010.
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