“St. Louis is built different. So am I. And so are we.”
That was former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush’s closing message in an Instagram video last week announcing her run to reclaim the congressional seat she lost last year.
Bush spoke in front of a spray-painted mural of herself along the Mississippi River flood wall. With images of tornado-damaged neighborhoods in the video, she drew a parallel between St. Louis’ resilience and her own, vowing to rebuild “brick by brick.”…