Fascinated with politics since the age of three, Chicago native and Mississippi state Rep. Erik Fleming faces an uphill battle to keep veteran U.S. Sen. Trent Lott from winning a fourth term.
Fleming, a Lindblom High School and Jackson State University grad-uate, was recently in Chicago to attend a fundraiser on his behalf as he prepares for the primary election.
His interest in politics started with a set of encyclopedias in his home. Each volume that he picked up had something about a president. "I thought it was cool to see the pictures of the presidents," Fleming told the Defender. He then began to read more about the presidents and the other political …
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