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...equivalent of the head of an election commission in a state election cooperating with one party rather than the other party," Wolff said. "It's the sort of thing [former Chicago Mayor] Richard Daley used to do, not the sort of thing I thought Harvard would...
Chicago, April 4 -- On the 21st anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Richard M. Daley was elected mayor after a campaign that sundered the city along racial lines...
...months ago, was unable to hold the alliance together. His cause was doomed when Alderman Timothy Evans, a Washington disciple, rebuffed Jackson's appeal for black unity. With the black electorate split and black turnout low, Sawyer was easy prey in February's Democratic primary. He was humiliated by Daley, son of the city's late political patriarch, Richard J. Daley...
Those same fractures undermined Evans' slender hopes in last week's general election. Mimicking white Democrats' attempts to override the 1983 primary by mounting an independent challenge to Washington, Evans ran under the banner of the Harold Washington Party. Jackson refused to endorse Daley, who had not actively supported Washington's earlier bids. Instead, Jackson backed Evans -- thereby opening himself to charges of putting race ahead of party loyalty. But turnout in black wards went down. To win, Evans needed at least 15% of the white vote; he got 7%. Daley attracted 8% of black voters, but his richly financed...
These were his fatal mistakes, and he now has two years to convince the city's Black community that he does have qualifications beside the fact that he was Washington's heir apparent. But it may be too late. Barring a complete Daley disaster or enormous change in the voting and registration habits of Chicago's Black populace, Daleys have a nasty habit of staying in office...