Word: vrdolyak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle-tested traditions of his own political experience, reveling most notably in the torchlight parade through downtown Chicago that has been an election-year custom for Democrats since 1948. Flanked by the leaders of the city's two feuding factions, Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, Mondale basked in the protective glow of oldtime ward politics. Mondale's enthusiasm was matched by that of the 50,000 onlookers...
...getting my arguments across." He referred to an endorsement by the Sierra Club, the first in that environmentalist organization's 92-year history. He also pointed to the success of his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, in getting Chicago's feuding Democrats, Mayor Harold Washington and Councilman Edward Vrdolyak, to share a platform with her in a display of party unity. Said Mondale: "I think that means something. I think there's evidence that we're starting to move...
...those states to rocket the Senator to national attention, but it will be of no use in the big, delegate-rich states to which the contest is now shifting. "There are more people who vote in my congressional district than vote in the whole of New Hampshire," says Edward Vrdolyak, chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party. "Illinois is an election?New Hampshire is a media event...
...squabble with Party Chairman Charles Manatt, and Reubin Askew bowed out when his mother-in-law died. At the first stop in Atlanta, Gary Hart insinuated that John Glenn was a closet Republican. Glenn, meanwhile, suggested that Walter Mondale was a big-spending liberal. In Chicago, Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak boycotted a $500-a-plate breakfast because of his feud with Mayor Harold Washington, a battle so bitter that the Democrats' once assured ability to "deliver" Cook County can now be called into question. A lunch in St. Louis was canceled for lack of interest, and many seats were...
Washington effectively pressured his foes, known as the Vrdolyak 29, to rescind a hefty portion of the $22 million in property tax cuts passed during Byrne's last year. (The Vrdolyak 29 represent a bloc on the 49-member city council.) He warned them that if the council refused, he would lay off 2,050 city workers, mostly fire fighters and police rookies and sanitation workers. After a boisterous meeting two weeks ago, where more than 1,000 fire fighters and their families marched and waved placards in angry protest, the council partly caved in to the mayor...