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Last year's walkathon drew 4200 walkers and raised $280,000, Daniel P. Daley, project coordinator, said Wednesday. He added that organizers hope to value $300,000 this year...
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White has more money than his challengers combined and is one of the most accomplished politicians around when it comes to mere staying power. In 1979, White used a patronage system modelled after the late Richard J. Daley Chicago machine to bury his opponents--King. Finnagan and Joseph F. Timilty. Relying almost solely on campaign contributions from city employees and developers. White out-fundraised and out-campaigned the opposition. The prospects for a similar coup this year are improving. Finnegan, one of the latest entrants into the race, started his campaign already about $70,000 in debt from past efforts...
Indeed, despite his longstanding disdain for Boss Daley's lockstep army, Washington stressed that building coalitions has always been his political style. "I reach out to people," he said last week. "There will be no exclusions." He has already shown that he can seek accommodation with the city's conservative business elite by placing many corporate leaders on his transition team. "When the dust settles, Chicago's standing will not be impaired," promises James O'Connor, chairman of Commonwealth Edison and co-chairman of the transition group...
...Congress in 1980 from Illinois' First District. He had run for mayor in 1977, but was embarrassed when black voters stuck with the Democratic machine candidate, Michael Bilandic, and he netted only 11% of the vote. After his loss, he denounced Bilandic as a "third-rate Boss Daley" and drew the wrath of the machine...