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...Chicago Alderman Lawrence Bloom keeps a list of 6,000 voters on a computer. "It's very personalized," he says. "Precinct workers can call someone and say, 'Alderman Bloom helped you get rid of that abandoned car. Now he needs your help...
...tinge of racism that clung to the primary battle has raised nervous speculation about the city's chances. The weekend before the election, Cook County Democratic Chairman Edward R. Vrdolyak allegedly announced to white precinct leaders on the city's Northwest side that the primary had become "a racial thing" and contended that it was a battle between Byrne and Washington. "I'm calling on you to save your city, to save your precinct," he was quoted as saying. Nor had the Democratic organization rallied around Washington, mainly because of opposition in many of the city's white neighborhoods...
...does, is nothing less than offensive. Legal registration seems to fall more under the rubric of "democratic process" than of "tactics...strictly of the old-fashioned machine type." The people of Chicago did not vote for Washington because they were "infirmed" (sic) or guided to the voting booth by precinct captains...
...worth. Created by the once-reformist mayor after the 1975 mayoral election, the machine succeeded in giving him a fourth term of office. In the 1979 election ward and administration department heads were required to attend a weekly meeting led by the mayor himself, and so-called precinct area. Moreover, employees were told to contribute money to the campaign, conduct mail and telephone polls, and identify political supporters and opponents among the electorate-all in defense of state law. Should White choose to run again, he will likely employ the same methods...
Inside the hotel he got to a phone and gave the police a description. Two boys in ski jackets. Heading south. The time. The place. After he explained they had taken nothing identifiable, the distant precinct lost interest. Even if the two were picked up, there was nothing they could be held for. Besides, he was lucky to be unhurt, to have lost only $17. All this the bored voice subliminally conveyed...