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...Republican Candidate Bernard Epton, 61, a millionaire lawyer who had some slim hope of profiting from the dissension to become the first G.O.P. mayor elected since 1927. And then last week Mayor Byrne suddenly upset all the calculations by announcing that she would re-enter the race as a write-in candidate, giving those voters dismayed by Washington's nomination not just a white but a white Democrat to select as an alternative...
...startling reversal for Byrne, who had pledged her support to Washington the day after losing to him in the primary and as late as March 1 scoffed that a write-in campaign "couldn't be done." Though there were grim cracks that she had launched a "white-in" campaign, Byrne stoutly insisted that her decision "has nothing to do with race. I'm not running for blacks or whites or the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or any political organization. I'm running for Chicago." In fact, she seems to be running for her political life...
WHEN CHICAGO MAYOR Jane Byrne last week announced her intention to run for re-election as a write-in candidate, following her February 22 defeat in the Democratic primary. Chicago's crumbling Democratic party fragmented further. Her intentions drew sharp criticism from local and national Democratic leaders who are supporting Rep. Harold Washington (D-III.) in his effort to become Chicago's first Black mayor. But at the same time, two prominent Chicago Democrats voiced their decision to endorse the Republican candidate, Bernard E. Epton, in the mayoral election April...
Even more alarming is the extent of media attention Byrne's write-in campaign is receiving. Though newspaper and television political sages continually emphasize that her campaign would probably be illegal--Byrne plans to make stickers and name-stamps available to voters so they can stamp her name and an X on the ballot--the same commentators are taking care to clarify step-to-step voting procedures for writing in a candidate--in case someone wants to. And the fact that the Superintendant of the Chicago Park District Edmund L. Kelly, the largest patronage dispenser next to Byrne, decided...
...possible to vote for a party of the left and have one's vote counted. In these states, one should vote to the left of the three major candidates. In states like Massachusetts where no left wing candidates qualify for the ballot or for a legal write-in, one should refuse to vote for the Presidency...