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Honorable L. Rother!

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The Barrow of Operation Bush.

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She was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

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She fought for and with the community.

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Dorothy fights where she lives to improve the quality of life in the city.

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She doesn't see, she doesn't just see black faces in her ward.

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She sees gold in the ghetto.

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Number six.

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I support Dorothy Tillman because of her associations.

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Someone said that you really know someone by the company that they keep.

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Well, Dorothy Tillman was the National Youth Director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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when he was alive and now she is close to the mayor of this city.

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I like that kind of association.

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Some folks say she too close, but you can't get too close to a mayor.

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You can't get too close to a leader and that's what I like about Dorothy Tillman.

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Number seven.

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I tell you, I'm enjoying myself myself.

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Number seven. I support Dorothy Tillman because she is a good spirit about her.

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That's what we like in the third ward.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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...way to even remotely duplicate what she just did.

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I think it was a marvelous tribute to a marvelous lady, from a marvelous lady, in reference to a job that she's well done.

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I must rush. I had planned to stay longer, but as Reverend Barrow said, she lives in every ward.

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Well, obviously she lives in every ward, so does the mayor.

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And the mayor's got to go out to one of his wards tonight, and that's the 13th ward where they say I never go.

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I've got to go out there and talk to some people and get an award tonight from some members of the 13th, the greater 13th ward,

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because some of the fine things that we've been able to do for that ward or that area among others.

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I had the distinct pleasure, which I never remotely dreamed that I would have, of appointing the alderman of the third ward.

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I was born and raised in the third ward and have lived in that third ward all except five years of my 62-some-odd years.

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I don't look 62, I understand that, but anyway.

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So I know that ward. I know every alley, gangway, street.

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I know the neighbors, the grocers, the butchers, the candlestick makers, the people, the institutions.

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As much of me in that ward as you could possibly find.

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And before that, my father lived there for years.

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Those other eight candidates, I'm not worried about them.

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I think most of them, you know, I run scared. I'm like Mayor Washington. I run scared in their election.

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I take every one of them very serious, but I'm not worried about them.

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But I know that we have to work.

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We have to work because I don't want people in the third ward to think that I have this election and they stay at home.

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You know, I walk around the street and say, I don't worry, Dorothy, you got it.

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Well, if they stay at home, I won't have it. So we got to work.

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Obviously, we can't stay here.

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Call 373-3228-373-3228.

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It's significant that the last number in the phone, on her phone, is eight.

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And there are eight people running.

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Anybody who knows about Poole knows.

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They ain't nothing but the eight ball.

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On February 26, Dorothy will be the cue ball and knock them right on out into the pocket.

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As we claim the victory here tonight.

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373-3228.

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We're going to translate and make it a new day.

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We're going to herald hope and bring darkness. No, no darkness but light.

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Bring despair. No despair, but hope.

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Bring ignorance. No ignorance, but insight.

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Because we believe that Dorothy Tillman is a lady for this time and is one of the pastors of this city.

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The Cosmopolitan Community Church.

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We stand united behind her to let this city know we are not going to stand idly by it.

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By any hack-a-jiff-head folk who come in at the last minute, have not paid their dues.

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We are on the case.

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Unabashedly and unashamedly, Dorothy Tillman is our lady in the third ward.

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And she is not going to be third, but she is first in our conviction, first in commitment, first in our hearts, and first in love.

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So let's join and unite together.

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For together we shall rise up and claim this city impotently.

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We separate and dwindle into division.

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We can do it. You can do it. We must do it.

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Dorothy Tillman is like the little engine moving up the hill.

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They said, Dorothy, you can't do it! You can't do it! You can't do it!

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Dorothy said, I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!

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They said, no you can't! No you can't! No you can't!

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I think I can! No you can't! No you can't! No you can't!

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I think I can! I think I can! I think I can!

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She got to the top of her Vijayaterarimus, looked down at all the naysayers, and said, I know I could! I knew I could!

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I knew I could! I knew I could!

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This is Dorothy Tillman. We can do it together.

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Now would you reach out and get your neighbor's hand?

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Would you reach out and get your neighbor's hand?

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As we let us pray together now let us become still.

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Let's become simple for the purpose as we heighten hope

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and make this day a new day, a day of victory,

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a day of vision, a day of virtue, a day of veracity

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for we are claiming none of ourselves

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but through the power that is in the name of him

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who is even the liberator, even Jesus the Christ.

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Victory is ours and victory is ours forever.

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In naming her as the ornament of that war.

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So politically motivated and so selfish in their motivation

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that they have no concern for anything else

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but to sow dissension, sow disruption,

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try to hold this city at break level for the next two years

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so they can point and say, well the city couldn't move

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when actually they were responsible for it.

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It reminds me of the young man who killed his mother

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and then pleaded before the judge that he was an orphan

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and therefore was entitled to mercy.

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That's what's going on in the third ward.

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That's what's being motivated.

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So I submit to you, I submit to you, it is only you,

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a cross section of the people in this city who are concerned

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about good government, most of who live in the ward

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and who are focused upon that campaign.

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It is up to you to call a halt to this kind of thing.

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Only you through your votes, through your voices,

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through your intellect and oh yes, through your contributions,

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you can end this kind of sorry business.

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Chicago has turned a corner.

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It turned it two years ago.

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It's not going back even though there are those

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who want to hold back the dawn.

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It's continued to create friction and turmoil.

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I think all we have to do is that as these issues arise,

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take the side of the right and the good and win.

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For example, we have appointments to be made.

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They've been pending for years.

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We're going to test that in the course.

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We're going to test it in the communities.

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We're going to test it everywhere.

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The age of whatever she is with five children,

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married to one man for 17 years,

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that's got to be an accolade of the highest choice.

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I'm calling upon you to give one rousing cheer

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for the now and future alderman of the Third War, Dorothy Tillman.

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Yeah!

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And uh, what day is it? Sunday? Sunday?

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I'll see you Sunday at Lou Palmer's badge at push.

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Thank you.

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He supported me to run the community campaign.

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It's not a matter of any love fest.

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The fact of the matter being from the Third Ward,

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I do understand BS when I hear it.

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You're at City Hall all the time.

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You know what goes on behind those chambers.

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I mean, you should know yourself.

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Most of that stuff has got to be a big joke.

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The mere fact that one of the things he said was that

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I don't know anything about being around Dr. King.

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You all know that stuff.

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Well, you all think that you don't know anything about politics.

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I mean, that's what I'm saying.

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I wanted to make sure that if there were threats

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in the presence of the mayor, there would be proof.

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The tape was not to be used to blackmail

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or in any other way embarrass the mayor,

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but it was to ensure that if I had to go to court,

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I would have some leg to stand on.

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But Walter, it's very clear, the mere fact that

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Skipperwell said that Tyrone can advise him to go there with a tape.

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Now, he has a history of being controlled.

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The fact that Tyrone can intend to control the Third Ward from the jail.

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And he went there and he said Tyrone told him

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that he would not leak anything but a little bit of the tape.

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But now he's saying that there's two other tapes.

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He said Tyrone advised him to go there with the tape.

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But now, to speak from my knowledge,

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when he started talking about it on the news,

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I mean, I don't have anything to do with it.

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I don't even know what side of town he worked on.

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Okay. Thanks very much to both of you.

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A lot of questions still unanswered.

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We'll try to get him answering the tapes to come still ahead now

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on the Channel 2 News at 5.

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29 is 29.

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Well, he leads the group. I don't know.

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I mean, that's something Skipperwell told you where the tape came from.

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I mean, he's been telling everybody. He's running off at the mile.

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But 29 is 29 and Verdoliek is 1.

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And there's a big difference between the two.

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I think it was evidence that he made him to go do that.

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He also said that Mr. Kenna promised him,

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he said Kenna promised him that he would only leak a little bit.

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He wasn't expecting the whole tape to be leaked.

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So that's evidence right there that it was a setup.

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It was a setup to embarrass the mayor,

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to embarrass myself,

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and it really brings a whole type of division within the black community.

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I say it was because I grew with my mayor.

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It wasn't nothing but BS.

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So, be it that we're in the third ward,

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and we understand the third ward,

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and we understand what BS is all about,

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we decided to leave the BS back there

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and get ready to move forward for February 26.

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Now, I told y'all, I told you that this was about a movement.

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This is not about Dorothy Tillman.

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This is not about Mayor Washington.

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It's about a movement.

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We're down a lot of noise right now,

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but we also know that we gotta win this election.

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If we can't win this election,

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it's just about being fired up in here.

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We gotta be fired up in the street.

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Because there's something about love,

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and there's something about the way you feel.

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If you're fired up when you hit the street,

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everybody you meet will get fired up.

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See, not only have you got to fire them up by talking to them,

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but you gotta bring in your pluses and your minuses.

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We gotta know why all our votes are out come February 26.

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We don't intend to have a runoff,

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because we know what a runoff means.

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A runoff is very simple.

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Don't you know we are forced into a runoff on February 26?

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These same forces that BS is all attacking.

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We'll be running around from February 26 to April saying,

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oh, we defeated Mayor Washington, we defeated Dorothy Tillman, we did this.

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Understand what kind of game we are playing.

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This game is very serious, and it's very real.

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It's about a movement.

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It's about whether we're going back or whether we're going forward.

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I may go for 30 years.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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You know, the election of Dorothy Tillman

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is the extension of a movement, as she pointed out.

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It's important.

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I can't think of anything more important than her election,

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and I'm not even concerned about it.

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I know it's going to happen.

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I'm getting out of it.

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It's justified to be so, but it's hard.

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It's hard.

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