Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all of the mayor's campaign gaffes and his administration's scandals, few people are willing to predict that Singer will topple Daley in patronage-padded Chicago. The reasons were succinctly stated by Jack Guthman, a lawyer and Daley stalwart: "The precinct captains work late in the campaign." Indeed, the machine still controls 44 of Chicago's 50 wards. As the primary neared, Daley organization workers were canvassing door-to-door to deliver him enough votes to win the Feb. 25 primary, which would virtually guarantee victory in the April election over a token Republican candidate...
...campaign without well-defined national issues. The social questions that dominated the past two elections?law-and-order, welfare, and busing to integrate schools?were absent for the most part. Instead, inflation and the recession withered voters' attitudes toward Republican incumbents. Explains Emil Gutoski, a Republican precinct captain in Cicero, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of Chicago: "When people are hurting, they vote the opposition." Adds Political Demographer Ben Wattenberg: "In tunes of economic trouble, this country still regards the Democratic Party as the one that's more for the little guys...
...such maneuverings, and the town's benumbing poverty (more than half the population qualifies for food stamps), it is not surprising that the East St. Louis schools are a disaster. "At least half the buildings are antiquated," says School Superintendent William Mason, who is also a Democratic precinct committeeman. The tax base is shrinking, and the district faces a $4 million deficit by the end of the year. Teachers (who have walked out on strike five times in the past ten years) are working without a contract. Almost all the district's 23,000 pupils are black; many...
...policeman stationed at the ward, 6, precinct 3 polling place in the Broadway Fire Station said yesterday, "We really don't enforce the (150 feet) rule...
Police Officers Donald Quinn and Jimmy Schulla from the first precinct, sent to watch the demonstration, said the protest was "duck soup." "The thing has gone beyond the busing issue; the solution is quality education. Why didn't they bus the teachers?" Schulla said...