Word: epton
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There may be other issues in the Chicago election in addition to the fact that Democrat Harold Washington, 60, an undistinguished Congressman with a disconcerting disregard for filing income tax returns happens to be black, and that Republican Bernard Epton, 61, an equally undistinguished former state legislator happens to be white. But it was getting increasingly hard to find any. The racial partisanship that dragged the mayoral race to a new low last week removed any doubt that next Tuesday's election was, alas, likely to turn out to be essentially a black-and-white matter...
...change hearts and minds?" One prominent personality the Washington campaign has been keeping out of the picture lately is the Rev. Jesse Jackson, aggressive leader of the civil rights group Operation Push. At Washington's primary victory party, Jackson led a cry of "We want it all!," which Epton supporters are now using as an anti-Washington slogan...
...present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head?" At one rally in a Democratic neighborhood last week, formerly staunch Democrats serenaded Epton with a campaign song to the tune of Bye Bye Blackbird...
...Epton, a Jewish millionaire and successful lawyer, is an unlikely hero for Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. He is certainly no racist, himself, and once marched in Memphis in memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. But his newest ads have played on the underlying theme of the election with the tag line: EPTON-BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. The Chicago Tribune characterized Epton's constant disavowals of race as an issue as "the ring of a man who doth protest too much...
...numbers still seem to favor Washington: assuming he gets almost all of the black vote, he will need only 20% white support to win. But polls show that he may have trouble. In just two weeks, according to one local poll, Epton has cut by half Washington's once-commanding 28-point lead...