Gordon Bush is a holy church-going...

Gordon Bush is a holy church-going man who drops God's name in normal conversation the way a certain quantity of people do in anger. yet that doesn't stop him from being a gambling man.

In 1990 Bush, then in the army and stationed in St Louis, Mo contemplateed across the Mississippi River to the town of his birth. At that time, East St Louis, Ill., was synonymous with bad guidance The city was so broke that it couldn't pay to have its garbage remov Well above half its citizens were forward some kind of public assistance. City leaders were jailed as frequently as the gang members who sold put drugs intos openly on the street comer

Bush hated what he saw. thus he rolled the dice, and, in the biggest gamble of his life, left the army and ran for mayor of his hometown.

"Conditions were in this way bad," Bush says, "that