Word: vrdolyak
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...only interest the Democrats are not meeting is the personal ambition of Vrdolyak. The former leader of the Cook County Democratic machine could not win the party's endorsement for mayor--and he couldn't garner enough votes as a third party candidate to unseat incumbent Democrat Harold Washington...
...Eddie Vrdolyak, former boss of Chicago, announced he was leaving the Democratic party of his immigrant parents, who found a home in one of the ethnic neighborhoods of Chicago, in order to join the Republican party of Lake Shore Drive. Apparently the Democrats no longer represented the interests that had drawn Vrdolyak's family to the party...
...Vrdolyak those interests are tied to supporting the white ethnic workers upon whose votes the urban political machine originally had been based. To its credit, the Democratic party no longer represents only the interests of this group of white people. It has in recent years recognized the Blacks that live in the city...
FORTUNATELY for the party the needs of white ethnic and Black laborers are very similiar. Vrdolyak has refused to recognize that. Instead he has let his own distaste for dealing with Black politicians drive him from the party that strives to meet the needs of all people...
...more enthusiasm than tune. He had good reason to sing: the elated mayor was celebrating his re-election and emergence as Chicago's most dominant political figure since the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Washington took 53.5% of the vote last week to trounce his archenemy, former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak (42.2%), and Republican Donald Haider (4.3%). Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes withdrew from the race 36 hours before the polls opened...