This message is to inform you of the passing of a dear family friend.  Clyde “Jocco” Baccus was a fixture in the campaigns of the McKinney family.  He was a trusted friend who could be relied upon to remain true to the people’s vision and needs.  “Jocco” loved my father and my son and showed it in every way possible.

Jocco started his professional life as a DJ, eventually working alongside the legendary James Brown at one of Brown’s radio stations.  Once Jocco met my father, his life in the political world was sealed. 

 

In a stroke of political perfidy, the Georgia “Good Ol’ Boys” drew Jocco’s home out of a General Assembly district that he was sure to win.

  They did this after having promised that the district would be drawn according to the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, and then at the last minute, just before the Georgia Legislature adjourned Sine die, they performed their cartological cartwheels to make sure that voters’ choices were artificially limited. 

Jocco is survived by his loving wife, Smithie (of whom he was so proud because he used to say all of the time that he had married a “Spelman woman”) and  a daugher, Davida.