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...campaign. "He'll take nothing for granted," said Adviser Bill Zimmerman. "It's not going to be a cakewalk." In fact, the April showdown may be the closest thing in decades to a real two-party contest in Chicago. Washington's opponent, former State Legislator Bernard Epton, 61, received only 12,000 votes in last week's uncontested Republican primary. But now, with the possibility of Democratic white flight to the Epton camp, the Republican Party is dispatching some of its bigger guns to the fray. James Fletcher, who engineered Illinois Governor James Thompson...
...dominated the city for 50 years. The Black candidate has pledged to destroy the complex and entrenched system of patronage that became a hallmark of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration. Backed by the city's large minority population. Washington will most definitely defeat Republican candidate Bernard Epton come April. And once the new administration takes office, the estimated 45,000 city employees who scratched backs with Daley and now-lame duck Mayor Jane Byrne may no longer be assured of a job and a fat paycheck each Friday...
...Although Epton, Mullin, Segal, and Druth, LtD., the Chicago-based law firm representing substandard, no one contends that his restaurants are models of cleanliness. In fact, Dayan's lawyers hoped to base their case on what they felt was selective enforcement of QSC standards by McDonald's. The crux of this argument was not that Dayan's operations were acceptable, but that they were no worse than many other McDonald's throughout the world...
...prove this contention, researchers at Epton, Mullin, Segal, and Druth attempted to document every rat, roach, and mouse ever seen in a New York City, Chicago, or Washington D.C. McDonald's between 1977 and the present. As Dayan's attorney's have noted, that adds up to a lot of health and safety violations. But that strategy failed when Judge Curry ruled that violations by outlets outside of France were irrelevant to the case--thus forbidding Dayan's attorneys from entering four boxes of illegible city health reports into evidence...
...Epton's first disillusionment was his discovery that the gavel had been stolen from another judge. Worse, he soon learned that two-thirds of those who came before him in criminal court were repeaters. "The heart breaks," he said "at seeing the same mothers time after time, wringing their hands because I'd already sent three or four members of their families to jail." Most discouraging of all were the appearances of some of the boys he had helped in boys' court -pranksters who had turned out to be hoodlums. "They had graduated from petty thievery...