WEBVTT

1
00:00:05.860 --> 00:00:12.180
with with daily in this election and daily is very very very popular with

2
00:00:12.180 --> 00:00:16.160
Latino voters right now I mean I'd be real surprised if he got less than 75 or

3
00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:19.020
80 or maybe even higher some of the Latino politicians just saying it's

4
00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:24.800
gonna get 90% of the vote in their districts can you tell us what what

5
00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:29.040
seems to be the dominant coalition going on over here and if at this point at

6
00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:32.760
least in this point in time if black politicians are looking from the outside

7
00:00:32.760 --> 00:00:37.260
looking at this point I mean what's the dominant politics coalition that the

8
00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:42.520
only seems to be putting together right now you know that is so weird to figure

9
00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:46.360
out because I don't see daily doing anything proactive to galvanize

10
00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:50.900
coalitions I think Hispanics unfortunately are just tying into that

11
00:00:50.900 --> 00:00:55.580
daily mystique tying into the daily name and and the daily aura I don't see the

12
00:00:55.580 --> 00:01:01.120
are doing anything that's very succinct to to pull in Hispanic politicians and

13
00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:05.360
it's it's really I think double jeopardy because many of those same Latinos who

14
00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:09.760
are saying we love Mayor Daley now were during the 80s saying we're part of the

15
00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:13.740
Harold Washington coalition I don't see daily doing anything that's really

16
00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:18.100
substantial to bring them in I think the Hispanics are basically living on on the

17
00:01:18.100 --> 00:01:21.160
daily mystique in the daily name and I think they'll be cheated in the long run

18
00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:24.020
they're cheating themselves well they're doing something for themselves in this

19
00:01:24.020 --> 00:01:28.500
are they making a calculation as far as what they can get out of this I would

20
00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:33.500
think so I would think so but but once again if I were a Latino I wouldn't be

21
00:01:33.500 --> 00:01:37.120
able to put my finger on anything distinctive that Mayor Daley has done

22
00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.720
for me or promised my community I think too many Latinos are living on that that

23
00:01:41.720 --> 00:01:43.300
past daily mystique

24
00:01:49.540 --> 00:01:53.120
and they feel that there's there's more than it's more than just a mystique that

25
00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.500
there's a certain link I mean we're talking about everybody being Catholic

26
00:01:55.500 --> 00:02:03.520
talking about being immigrants and being somewhat conservative so well you know

27
00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:08.240
there's much concern about the mayor issuing a directive to the city police

28
00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.900
department if someone is a suspected of being an illegal immigrant it's a hands

29
00:02:13.900 --> 00:02:17.440
off procedure with the police department the mayor says you can't suspect them

30
00:02:17.440 --> 00:02:21.340
you can't detain them INS isn't happy about it so yeah you're probably right

31
00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:25.780
maybe the Hispanic community feels an affinity there because there's a hands

32
00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:29.320
off policy in terms of illegal immigration so maybe that is a hook for

33
00:02:29.320 --> 00:02:31.360
them but I don't think it's a legitimate hook

34
00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:44.820
in a regular city in any city you'd expect that the mayor would have some

35
00:02:44.820 --> 00:02:48.420
support in the black community and there'd be people politicians on it

36
00:02:48.420 --> 00:02:51.520
come out publicly and say yeah I'm with the mayor and somebody will come out and say they

37
00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:56.920
weren't doesn't seem to be the case well you know you look at these black

38
00:02:56.920 --> 00:03:00.460
politicians in this town that historically have aligned themselves

39
00:03:00.460 --> 00:03:04.220
with the black churches let's face it the black church has been the base of

40
00:03:04.220 --> 00:03:08.600
black politics dr. King Jesse Jackson and the like I mean to preach from the

41
00:03:08.600 --> 00:03:13.640
pulpit is is what preachers should do but politicians get up there every

42
00:03:13.640 --> 00:03:17.520
election and they want to be preachers and it's so sad and it's so tragic and

43
00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:21.740
politicians pimp black churches every election especially in this town and

44
00:03:21.740 --> 00:03:25.360
black parishioners fall for the okie-dokie and you look at these African

45
00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.520
American ministers who constantly support the incumbent and I don't see

46
00:03:29.520 --> 00:03:33.200
him doing anything for them in particular in helping the congregations

47
00:03:33.200 --> 00:03:37.640
they might help certain preachers to get contracts and to get sweetheart deals

48
00:03:37.640 --> 00:03:40.440
from the city but I don't think the members of those churches are

49
00:03:40.440 --> 00:03:44.300
benefiting and what really really bothers me as an outsider as a

50
00:03:44.300 --> 00:03:49.460
from the outside in this political sphere I see a lot of these preachers

51
00:03:50.020 --> 00:03:55.080
for example altering the Lord's Prayer give us this day our daily bread as in

52
00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:58.820
Richard Daly and to me that's a total insult and I really don't think black

53
00:03:58.820 --> 00:04:01.660
parishioners should fall for them but they do and it's sad

54
00:04:01.660 --> 00:04:06.260
but nevertheless there even there seem to be some aldermen who are in the daily

55
00:04:06.260 --> 00:04:14.280
camp but they don't they can't say publicly they don't seem to be able to

56
00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:22.560
black base has been anti Richard J. Daly anti Richard M. Daly and oftentimes

57
00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:27.860
perception becomes reality and if there is a slight perception that activists

58
00:04:27.860 --> 00:04:33.100
politicians that outspoken black politicians that rebel black politicians

59
00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:38.220
or even merely aligned or are slightly aligned with the incumbent mayor that

60
00:04:38.220 --> 00:04:41.620
could be suicidal in their communities that's why someone like a Gator Bradley

61
00:04:41.620 --> 00:04:45.340
is becoming more attractive nowadays because they're into their attuning

62
00:04:45.340 --> 00:04:51.860
themselves they're bonding with those angry masses out there and even though I

63
00:04:51.860 --> 00:04:55.220
don't think Gator Bradley will win this particular campaign I think it will come

64
00:04:55.220 --> 00:04:59.840
down to a race between Ty Kenner because he's so well known in the ward and the

65
00:04:59.840 --> 00:05:03.040
incumbent Dorothy Tillman there's a place for someone like a Gator Bradley

66
00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.160
out there and that's why they're becoming increasingly popular

67
00:05:06.300 --> 00:05:09.840
because they're they're they're binding those angry masses.

68
00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:13.520
Let me ask you this I mean in a city where aldermen you know really are you

69
00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:16.640
know they base their power or their influence on being able to provide

70
00:05:16.640 --> 00:05:20.940
services if all the African-American aldermen the ones that like daily and

71
00:05:20.940 --> 00:05:24.880
the ones that don't like daily you know can't ally themselves at all publicly

72
00:05:24.880 --> 00:05:28.080
with them where does that leave them in terms of having the ability and the

73
00:05:28.080 --> 00:05:30.300
access to be able to do anything for their constituents?

74
00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:35.280
It leaves them out in the cold look at John Steele for example in the sixth

75
00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:39.360
war John Steele replaced Gene Sawyer who was acting mayor and a lot of black

76
00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.760
people are still angry at because they think he would he sold out I'm not

77
00:05:42.760 --> 00:05:46.320
saying it's true but that's the perception John Steele replaces Gene

78
00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:50.760
Sawyer in the sixth ward which strongly has been one of the largest turnout

79
00:05:50.760 --> 00:05:54.900
wards in terms of black voters and you've got black services in the sixth

80
00:05:54.900 --> 00:06:00.920
ward because they were aligned with the daily administrations old man daily and

81
00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:04.660
then and the new King Richard as many people say but you look at a John Steele

82
00:06:04.660 --> 00:06:08.580
for example he still gets city services in his ward even though he's anti

83
00:06:08.580 --> 00:06:11.680
administration but I think the administration respects someone like a

84
00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.660
John Steele so that's where I again urge more black activists politicians to

85
00:06:16.660 --> 00:06:21.220
step up I think that if they challenge Mayor Daley more often they'll get more

86
00:06:21.220 --> 00:06:27.620
respect but not enough black politicians in my mind are bold enough to step up

87
00:06:27.620 --> 00:06:31.920
they want to sit back and play it safe and if they keep that attitude that will

88
00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:32.580
be suicidal.

89
00:06:32.640 --> 00:06:37.400
So what's what's in your words how would you describe Chicago politics sorry by

90
00:06:37.400 --> 00:06:39.320
saying Chicago politics is?

91
00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:45.180
Chicago politics is a circus an absolute circus but who doesn't love to go to the

92
00:06:45.180 --> 00:06:53.060
circus New York has Broadway LA has Hollywood here in Chicago we've got our

93
00:06:53.060 --> 00:06:56.880
politics we've got our sports teams and we've got our politics as my partner

94
00:06:56.880 --> 00:07:01.880
Ed Vidalak he says Chicago politics is a sport and that's true but to me it's a

95
00:07:01.880 --> 00:07:07.260
sport slash circus so whoever isn't into sports they're into politics or they've

96
00:07:07.260 --> 00:07:10.500
got the best of both worlds they're into both in this town we don't have

97
00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:13.780
Broadway we don't have Hollywood but we've got our sports teams whether they

98
00:07:13.780 --> 00:07:18.600
stink like the Cubs or they're on the move like the Bears we've got politics

99
00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:21.460
and we've got sports and we live and die with them.

100
00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:23.140
What are Chicago politicians like?

101
00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:28.360
Chicago politicians I think are totally unique animals some of them are very

102
00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.640
greedy and these are the longtime incumbents because they've used people

103
00:07:31.640 --> 00:07:36.280
for so long and many of them will supply city services to get that first wave of

104
00:07:36.280 --> 00:07:39.700
votes but I think Chicago politicians that have been around for a long time

105
00:07:39.700 --> 00:07:43.380
have gotten complacent have gotten apathetic and thereby the voters have

106
00:07:43.380 --> 00:07:46.880
gotten apathetic and that's why you see such low voter turnouts you've got the

107
00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:51.260
historic machine wars that will turn out but I think again harkening back to the

108
00:07:51.260 --> 00:07:55.340
Gator Bradleys of the world and some of the the new rebels that are coming up

109
00:07:55.340 --> 00:08:00.480
now if they learn from that same formula of the old dinosaur machine politicians

110
00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:04.900
and refine it to to the 90s they could have those same long-term

111
00:08:06.700 --> 00:08:07.340
compensations.

112
00:08:07.340 --> 00:08:14.560
Where do black voters in Chicago, where do they get their information from about politics?

113
00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.540
Is it the same place that white voters get it?

114
00:08:21.380 --> 00:08:27.400
Well talk radio is very big in this time and as we know talk radio certainly played a

115
00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:31.640
major role in the last national elections and even though many pundits

116
00:08:31.640 --> 00:08:37.260
will say that that wave of the electronic town hall on talk radio is

117
00:08:37.260 --> 00:08:42.600
very conservative and that could be detrimental to blacks. Talk radio has

118
00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:48.540
been a long-standing trough for blacks to draw from over the years but I think

119
00:08:48.540 --> 00:08:54.760
it's been ignored by mainstream. In this town for example you've got WVON which

120
00:08:54.760 --> 00:08:58.960
is talk radio but it's a daytime station and it's only a thousand watts but

121
00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:03.600
people pay attention so where blacks get their information they get it from the

122
00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.620
media and now the talk radio has become a national phenomenon and you've got

123
00:09:07.620 --> 00:09:11.280
persons like me who obviously is an African-American and it's in the

124
00:09:11.280 --> 00:09:14.960
mainstream media they're paying attention to outlets such as this.

125
00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:20.080
Is it also easier for African-American candidates who sometimes don't have the

126
00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:23.120
access to resources to be able to tell us about that?

127
00:09:23.360 --> 00:09:28.940
Absolutely. Look at the city clerk's race for example Jim Lasky he's an

128
00:09:28.940 --> 00:09:32.760
city clerk he wants to step up he has some money behind him he has campaign

129
00:09:32.760 --> 00:09:37.220
commercials Ricky Hinden his opponent incumbent state senator a longtime

130
00:09:37.220 --> 00:09:41.580
West Side Force but Ricky doesn't have the bucks but he knows he has access to

131
00:09:41.580 --> 00:09:45.600
shows like Edward O'Liac and Ty Wansley he knows he has access to the other

132
00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:49.740
talk shows in town because he's a rebel and I commend people like Ricky Hinden

133
00:09:49.740 --> 00:09:53.140
even though he might not win this election I commend him because he's the

134
00:09:53.140 --> 00:09:57.200
type that's going to step up and let's face it the 90s are an in-your-face

135
00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:01.740
attitudinal time people like Ricky Hinden he gets in your face you might

136
00:10:01.740 --> 00:10:05.160
not like him you might despise him but you pay attention to him because he

137
00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:08.620
gets in your face and even though he might not have the bucks he certainly

138
00:10:08.620 --> 00:10:12.880
has the the chutzpah to get in your face and tell his story and I think we need

139
00:10:12.880 --> 00:10:16.100
more of that. Historically in the black community what's the importance of Lou

140
00:10:16.100 --> 00:10:21.720
Palmer's radio shows? Not only Lou Palmer's radio shows years ago when I

141
00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:26.640
first came to this town in 1980 Lou Palmer had a syndicated five-minute

142
00:10:26.640 --> 00:10:30.900
program called Lou Palmer's Notebook was sponsored by Illinois Bell for a while

143
00:10:30.900 --> 00:10:35.860
it was sponsored for a while by People's Gas not only his shows Lou Palmer now

144
00:10:35.860 --> 00:10:40.180
has a show called On Target on WVON which airs maybe twice a week maybe three

145
00:10:40.180 --> 00:10:44.560
times a week that's an essential in terms because Lou Palmer opens his show

146
00:10:44.560 --> 00:10:50.280
with African drums beating and African drums certainly years and years ago

147
00:10:50.280 --> 00:10:54.960
were the talk radio of their time and I think Lou Palmer is very wise to

148
00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:58.680
continue that signature logo because when you hear the drums beating you know

149
00:10:58.680 --> 00:11:03.160
it's time for Lou Palmer to tell you how he feels and most people in the black

150
00:11:03.160 --> 00:11:07.580
community that feel downtrodden and oppressed and used and abused by the

151
00:11:07.580 --> 00:11:10.860
system will pay attention to Lou Palmer and will probably buy into the

152
00:11:10.860 --> 00:11:14.800
philosophy and the notion of Lou Palmer and see Buck and Bipple so when I first

153
00:11:14.800 --> 00:11:18.440
came to this town Lou Palmer had Lou's Notebook and even though it was five

154
00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.960
minutes people listened to it every day they knew what time it was coming on they

155
00:11:23.100 --> 00:11:26.900
knew what stations it would be on not only did they listen they digested they

156
00:11:26.900 --> 00:11:30.580
remembered and they learned from it and even though Lou doesn't have his

157
00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:34.620
notebook anymore and he's heard at night on WVON and he has a very limited

158
00:11:34.620 --> 00:11:38.620
audience people still from those Lou Palmer notebook days pay attention to

159
00:11:38.620 --> 00:11:42.980
this man they they listen and they learn and I think Lou will be a permanent

160
00:11:42.980 --> 00:11:48.400
force in terms of not only getting people involved he educates the black

161
00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:53.620
masses and we need more loop homers and I hope he's cultivating more youth to to

162
00:11:53.620 --> 00:11:57.920
come up in his life so you think he has an impact politically every day more

163
00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:02.560
than you know so tell tell me that the Lou Palmer has Lou Palmer has tremendous

164
00:12:02.560 --> 00:12:06.880
input because people learn from Lou Palmer they just don't listen to Lou

165
00:12:06.880 --> 00:12:11.960
Palmer they learn and they take away a message and Lou Palmer for example in my

166
00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:16.100
mind was the one responsible for Harold Washington running in the first place

167
00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:20.020
Harold ran back in the 70s I think as a diversion just to see if the time was

168
00:12:20.020 --> 00:12:23.640
right he didn't he didn't win and maybe some people thought the time wasn't

169
00:12:23.640 --> 00:12:27.860
right at that particular time Harold was reluctant to run in 83 but it was Lou

170
00:12:27.860 --> 00:12:32.080
Palmer who held the plebiscites at Bethel AME Church it was Lou Palmer who

171
00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:36.200
got on the airwaves of various stations saying we shall see in 83 and it was

172
00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:40.340
Lou Palmer who I think basically convinced Harold Washington you can do

173
00:12:40.340 --> 00:12:44.500
it so Lou Palmer was important then and is just as important now because people

174
00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:46.940
again just don't listen they learn from him

175
00:12:48.580 --> 00:12:52.180
So one last time tell us that he's important but it's Lou Palmer having

176
00:12:52.180 --> 00:12:56.340
importance in a political importance so we know that it's that it's Lou Palmer

177
00:12:56.340 --> 00:12:58.260
it's in Chicago and it's politics

178
00:12:59.340 --> 00:13:00.060
I didn't say politics

179
00:13:00.060 --> 00:13:03.760
Okay so tell us about Lou Palmer one last time

180
00:13:03.760 --> 00:13:08.440
Lou Palmer is extremely important Lou Palmer is vital when it comes to Chicago

181
00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:12.600
politics because not only African-Americans listen to Lou Palmer

182
00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:16.860
people in Chicago listen to Lou Palmer and they learn from Lou Palmer because

183
00:13:16.860 --> 00:13:21.420
when it comes to politics he educates people how to register how to vote he

184
00:13:21.420 --> 00:13:24.860
educates people the importance of a plebiscite because in my view Lou

185
00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:28.700
Palmer convinced Harold Washington when he was comfortable in Congress to run

186
00:13:28.700 --> 00:13:32.920
for mayor in 83 and had it hadn't have been for the importance of Lou Palmer

187
00:13:32.920 --> 00:13:36.700
saying we need black plebiscites we need to have a canvassing of who the

188
00:13:36.700 --> 00:13:40.200
potential candidates would be Harold Washington never would have run and

189
00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:44.620
never would have won but thanks be to the education and the foresight of Lou

190
00:13:44.620 --> 00:13:48.340
Palmer we got Harold Washington and I think Lou Palmer was important then

191
00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:53.460
politically and even more politically important now they listen and they learn

192
00:13:53.460 --> 00:13:54.720
One more question

193
00:13:56.700 --> 00:14:01.800
We've been both in black and white wards. The white wards feelings run high about politics

194
00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:07.000
people are really involved they really get into it. Is it like that in the black wards?

195
00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:15.120
You know what amazes me about that? Right after Harold Washington's death I was

196
00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.120
doing a talk show similar to this working solo on a black owned and

197
00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:23.240
operated station and I had people call the show that identified themselves as

198
00:14:23.240 --> 00:14:27.540
police officers I have my doubts about their authenticity but they called

199
00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:32.440
and said Ty we're white cops and Ty we just got one message for you and all

200
00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:36.900
those black people out there I said okay what's your message and the message was

201
00:14:36.900 --> 00:14:43.480
as follows quote Ty we're going to take our city back I said who's we who does

202
00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:48.520
the city belong to? We white people. You black people had Harold Washington you

203
00:14:48.520 --> 00:14:52.160
black people had Harold Washington appointing black people and yeah you had

204
00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:56.520
your you had the city for a while but we are going to take our city back at that

205
00:14:56.520 --> 00:15:02.840
point I proceeded to remind these very ignorant callers in my view of the

206
00:15:02.840 --> 00:15:07.400
original founding father of Chicago certainly the Native Americans were the

207
00:15:07.400 --> 00:15:11.540
indigenous citizens to this town but I said who founded Chicago who was the

208
00:15:11.540 --> 00:15:15.040
first permanent settler they thought about it they didn't know and it was

209
00:15:15.040 --> 00:15:19.660
Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable a black man a black Haitian so my point is if

210
00:15:19.660 --> 00:15:23.740
they're going to say we're going to take our city back we being white people I

211
00:15:23.740 --> 00:15:26.900
historically remind people it was a black who was the first permanent

212
00:15:26.900 --> 00:15:33.680
settler so who city was it in the first place? Food for thought. You said you said

213
00:15:33.680 --> 00:15:36.500
they were they were they were saying we're gonna take our city back? Oh and

214
00:15:36.500 --> 00:15:40.300
and they were vehement about it I mean I could hear the viciousness I could I

215
00:15:40.300 --> 00:15:45.380
could hear the the animus over the phones it was like it was payback time

216
00:15:45.380 --> 00:15:49.060
okay Harold's dead and gone we are going to take our city back it was frightening

217
00:15:49.060 --> 00:15:53.120
well I got a question for you I mean you know in listening to the some of the

218
00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:55.780
rallies in the last couple days whatever and looking at just what they always

219
00:15:55.780 --> 00:16:01.200
coalition's right now have they taken it back for the time being? Well I think

220
00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:07.320
those particular callers had a mindset and the more they articulate that

221
00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:11.700
thought yeah more white people are going to galvanize around that and perhaps to

222
00:16:11.700 --> 00:16:16.520
a large degree they have taken their city back but if blacks learn from that

223
00:16:16.520 --> 00:16:21.320
formula of the long-standing machine and they use the machine the way the machine

224
00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:26.100
used them in the past blacks can have their day in the Sun one more time

225
00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:33.660
that's great okay okay cool if you had some money hanging out of your pocket

226
00:16:33.660 --> 00:16:34.580
I'd really

227
00:21:49.900 --> 00:21:51.300
I would have talked about

228
00:21:51.320 --> 00:21:53.760
I alone

229
00:22:10.380 --> 00:22:17.960
yeah I was a eyelids and my solution

230
00:22:19.360 --> 00:22:20.540
What time is it?

231
00:22:20.900 --> 00:22:24.800
It's 7.30 Friday before a Tuesday election.

232
00:22:27.120 --> 00:22:31.560
Most people that are not done, they're probably walking to precinct right about now.

233
00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:35.280
Obviously, I'm not there doing it.

234
00:22:35.420 --> 00:22:36.860
I'm pretty secure in my precinct.

235
00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:40.380
God help us if it does come through now, boy.

236
00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:51.320
I'm sure the opposition is out working right now, either blitzing and or getting ready to do something tomorrow morning.

237
00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.360
I'm sure they're very nervous.

238
00:22:56.620 --> 00:22:59.500
We were there four years ago, wired for sound.

239
00:22:59.620 --> 00:23:02.020
I mean, I guess I'm still kind of wired right now.

240
00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:05.480
We won't get any sleep for another few days.

241
00:23:10.080 --> 00:23:18.600
Tomorrow morning, all I'm going to do is just go back and deal with some of my so-called zeros, the undecideds.

242
00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:30.120
In the final three days, I'll tell you, I'm just talking for myself.

243
00:23:30.620 --> 00:23:43.700
I'm going to go after my zeros, all my undecideds, and try to relax as best I can, which doesn't come naturally.

244
00:23:47.300 --> 00:23:56.340
I'm just looking forward to Sunday for the meeting, get our stuff together, and just the waiting game now, which is actually the hardest part of the game.

245
00:23:58.680 --> 00:24:06.480
I'm trying to stay awake and trying to stay focused, but this is the boring part of the game because you've got really nothing to do.

246
00:24:06.560 --> 00:24:08.200
I mean, there's no race going on.

247
00:24:08.280 --> 00:24:13.640
I hate to say it, but there's really no race out there.

248
00:24:13.660 --> 00:24:17.000
So all we're going to do is just castrate, make sure we don't get hit with anything.

249
00:24:17.280 --> 00:24:18.940
If we do, we respond to it.

250
00:24:19.080 --> 00:24:20.300
Maybe, maybe not.

251
00:24:22.580 --> 00:24:27.260
Today we've got a little excitement to try to change a polling place on us, right in Brian's backyard.

252
00:24:30.460 --> 00:24:37.360
It was a three precinct multiple, and I think we've got it under control.

253
00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:42.820
I think the polling place is going to stay there, but we'll put that to sleep, I think.

254
00:24:42.820 --> 00:24:49.200
We'll be able to rest lightly tonight, but right now we're just trying to rest up and pretend like nothing's happening.

255
00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:54.580
Hell no.

256
00:24:55.500 --> 00:24:56.580
What's the weather today?

257
00:24:56.980 --> 00:24:58.220
56, 57?

258
00:24:58.980 --> 00:25:01.340
If it can drop 30 degrees, we'll be happy.

259
00:25:01.940 --> 00:25:03.080
I want it cold.

260
00:25:05.340 --> 00:25:06.960
I'll keep the opposition inside.

261
00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:11.420
We've got them unnumbered on the precincts.

262
00:25:14.060 --> 00:25:18.940
It's a fact, especially in Chicago, the opposition cannot bring the vote out on things like that

263
00:25:18.940 --> 00:25:21.220
because they can't.

264
00:25:21.220 --> 00:25:22.880
They don't have the manpower to do it.

265
00:25:25.260 --> 00:25:31.720
I'll be inside drinking coffee and eating donuts with the rest of them because my numbers are going to come in,

266
00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:34.340
and I feel very confident with them.

267
00:25:39.940 --> 00:25:40.780
I care.

268
00:25:42.340 --> 00:25:43.340
The candidate cares.

269
00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:49.300
This game is won before the election is done.

270
00:25:50.980 --> 00:25:51.980
It's a numbers game.

271
00:25:55.600 --> 00:26:02.720
The only thing that I have to worry about on Tuesday is making sure that the votes come out,

272
00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:06.200
the pluses, or the people that are with us that come out and vote.

273
00:26:08.360 --> 00:26:15.680
But whether all my pluses come out or not, my precinct has been won a month ago.

274
00:26:16.780 --> 00:26:18.340
Sounds cocky, it is.

275
00:26:19.100 --> 00:26:19.880
I'm confident.

276
00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:25.360
It's only a matter of by how much my precinct comes in,

277
00:26:26.060 --> 00:26:29.680
by how much our ward carries Brian by.

278
00:26:42.340 --> 00:26:47.020
It's that old axiom, all politics is local.

279
00:26:50.120 --> 00:26:52.240
People vote for their backyard.

280
00:26:54.780 --> 00:26:59.080
It's a precinct by precinct, door to door, neighbor to neighbor politics.

281
00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:01.100
That's the way we treat it.

282
00:27:02.820 --> 00:27:05.460
I don't think our opposition is treated that way.

283
00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:10.580
I think they would like to, but I don't think they have the capacity or the capability to do so.

284
00:27:22.860 --> 00:27:24.960
Not going to wood Brian Dian? I don't know.

285
00:27:35.620 --> 00:27:37.300
I know, I know.

286
00:27:37.860 --> 00:27:46.760
I really can't think of any, it's real weird.

287
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.680
Having a clean politician for a boss or a clean candidate or clean product to sell,

288
00:27:54.100 --> 00:27:55.920
because that's all it is, a product that you're selling.

289
00:27:59.740 --> 00:28:01.520
We've got really nothing to be afraid of.

290
00:28:01.520 --> 00:28:06.300
We're running on a record, our record's been four years of working our butts off.

291
00:28:08.340 --> 00:28:10.720
And we really have nothing to worry about.

292
00:28:11.280 --> 00:28:16.780
I'm sure there's other politicians out there, other ward people that have a lot to worry about for whatever reason.

293
00:28:18.100 --> 00:28:24.220
You've got to worry about the last minute stuff that comes up, dirt that might pop out.

294
00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:28.400
Most people on the last week don't tend to believe that,

295
00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:31.080
because they're pretty well educated in the city.

296
00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:37.060
But the dirt can't fly out, you keep your eye out for that.

297
00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:48.260
If you're looking for tricks, they could blitz your precinct and tell people that the precinct voting booths have been changed to another location.

298
00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:59.760
You've seen all of them, that elections a day after, they'll do a blitz in your precinct with the wrong date on it,

299
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:04.380
a different location for the polling booths.

300
00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:13.440
Everything from calling your candidate a homosexual, a rapist, a philanderer, anything, it could happen.

301
00:29:13.900 --> 00:29:15.100
It has to happen in this city.