A panel of officials picked the civil rights icon’s successor from a list of five Democrats.
Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the district by a margin ofIn effect, the Democratic officials charged with selecting a nominee in an unusually rapid, behind-closed-doors process will likely install a long-term successor for Lewis without the input of Democratic voters in the Atlanta-area district.
Vincent Fort, a progressive labor lobbyist who represented southwest Atlanta in the state Senate for two decades, denounced the process for depriving Atlanta Democrats of the chance to pick a nominee in an open primary for the first time since 1986 when Lewis defeated fellow civil rights leader Julian Bond.
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