There is most certainly more to this story. We've got a rising Dem. star from Chicago hobnobbing with Booker, Pelosi, Kamala, etc. This was obviously pre-planned and they're all involved somehow.
She has only been in office for a little more than a year, but Cook County’s top prosecutor Kim Foxx is already attracting admiring attention from Democrats on the national stage.
Foxx on Wednesday night was feted by the party’s Washington, D.C., elite at a gala dinner where she received the Gabrielle Giffords Rising Star Award from Emily’s List, the major political action committee that works to elect pro-choice women nationwide.
The state’s attorney shared a table with Sen. Cory Booker and met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the event, also attended by Democratic gubernatorial nominee J.B. Pritzker.
That’s the kind of clout that would be very helpful in a run for higher office.
But asked by Chicago Inc. about her long-term ambitions, Foxx said all of the things you’d expect a neophyte politician to say about focusing on her current job and how she had “so much to do.”
She added that “no one was pestering me to run for something else,” allowing that attendees at the event made it clear that they “expect me to do great things,” starting with the state’s attorney’s office.
“It was absolutely an honor,” said Foxx, who was handed the award by Giffords, the former congresswoman from Arizona who survived a shooting and is a leading gun control advocate.
Foxx gave a touching, well-received acceptance speech about her late grandmother, Myrtle Wilson, who would have turned 100 earlier this month. Wilson, who was born the daughter of an Arkansas sharecropper, came to Chicago in the great migration and helped her teenage daughter “guide me through a world that challenged our very existence,” Foxx said.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chicagoinc/ct-met-kim-foxx-award-chicago-inc-20180419-story.html