Former Chicago gang leader, now congressman, racially smears US senator

Rep. Bobby Rush, a former leader in the Black Panther street gang in Chicago, called Illinois Senator Mark Kirk's proposal to fight gang violence "an elitist white boy solution" in remarks made to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Kirk and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois are asking for $30 million in federal aid to be used to aggressively go after Chicago's largest and most destructive gang - the Gangster Disciples.