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...whacks, I'll thump," vowed Democrat Alan Dixon early in his race against Republican Dave O'Neal for the Illinois Senate seat being vacated by Adlai Stevenson III, who is retiring. So far, Dixon has kept his word, and the contest has turned into a name-calling slugfest...
...Neal, 43, a 220-lb. ex-Marine with a black belt in karate, has no qualms about taking on Dixon. Says O'Neal: "I've always accomplished what I've set out to do -running for office or becoming a good bowler." Ten years ago, when he was a pharmacist in rural Belleville, he decided to run for sheriff when a deputy took two days to answer a complaint by O'Neal's wife about a prowler. O'Neal won handily, fired the deputy and soon made a name for himself by packing...
...Neal figures that he must campaign aggressively to increase his name recognition across the state (70% in a poll, vs. 98% for Dixon). In a debate, O'Neal accused Dixon of "shaking down" state employees for more than $300,000 in contributions and spending $1.1 million "like a drunken sailor" during the primary campaign. Electing Dixon to the Senate, said O'Neal, would be like "sending a fox to guard the chicken coop...
Dixon in turn has accused O'Neal of violating the spirit of the federal election laws by accepting $449,000 in "laundered" funds from the Republican Senate Committee, by which Dixon meant that the money cannot be traced to its original source. Actually, the candidates' total campaign war chests are almost the same: $2.35 million for Dixon and $2 million for O'Neal. Although O'Neal has closed the gap with his opponent in the polls, from 18 points in June to 12 points by mid-September, most bets in Illinois are still on the thumper...
...Boston City "Councilman Albert O'Neal predicted yesterday the suit wil fail, saying the census is accurate because "people are moving out of the cities all the time. They are being forced out by crime, forced busing, and constant tax increase...