{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-watson-coleman-statement-on-passing-of-mildred-crump", "Rep. Watson Coleman Statement on Passing of Mildred Crump", "2024-12-02", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "NJ", "Bonnie Watson Coleman", "W000822", "watsoncoleman.house.gov", "watsoncoleman", "https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) issued the following statement mourning the passing of former Newark City Council President Mildred Crump:\n\n\u201cBill and I are devastated at the passing of Mildred Crump, an extraordinary woman whose tenacity, spirit, compassion, and grit forever changed the landscape of New Jersey politics. She was smart, savvy, impeccably dressed, and always led with kindness and grace. A woman of immense and unwavering faith, I doubt that her work is done even now that she\u2019s rejoined our Heavenly Father.\n\n\u201cMildred was relentless. Her legacy is a litany of firsts \u2014 the first Black woman to serve on the Newark City Council, and later the first woman to serve as Council President. She found a world that often blocked Black women from positions of power or leadership, and through sheer determination and skill paved a path broad enough for countless others to follow \u2014 myself included.\n\n\u201cFor her, others always came first. She heard the calling to public service as a means to do good in the world. To shape the circumstances of people less fortunate and make their lives better. To look out for our communities, for families who have been left out, overlooked, marginalized, and unfairly disregarded. She always sought out the least among us and asked, \u2018What can I do to help?\u2019 That is the truest meaning of service.\n\n\u201cTo know her is to love her, and it has been a blessing to know Mildred. Bill and I are praying for her family, her son Larry and her daughter Sherri. We pray they find peace in knowing the joy Mildred\u2019s spirit has found in returning at last, after 31 long years, to her beloved husband, Cecil. May God bless her and welcome her home.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/rep-watson-coleman-statement-on-passing-of-mildred-crump"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.682391855865717, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}