And I'm very glad that I can be with Tom Hines and with George Dunn and with all of you to join in a well -deserved tribute to a fine public servant.
He has been an outstanding state senator, an outstanding state's attorney, and he would serve the city of Chicago well as its spare.
Loves Chicago as his father did, and win or lose, and Rich don't do neither.
He is marked for an illustrious career in public service.
I come here, like many of you, to pay my respects to Rich Daley, and is the friend, a friend of a great family.
Thank you very much.
Good luck to all of you.
Pointing a few people in the next two or three days to work out the details.
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His power at the county board today, but he couldn't.
Ladies and gentlemen, are you committing to one debate or more? Ladies and gentlemen, this thing is entry.
President George Dunn is here tonight.
He's told these people not to let the sun go down on any day.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I appreciate the support that you have given me tonight.
Since the campaign has begun, I have met with people from all neighborhoods.
I have listened to their concerns about the city of Chicago.
I come away from these meetings with a clear sense of your concerns about the issues facing Chicago, the issues that demand new leadership.
When the campaign started, I expressed my eagerness to address these issues.
I am concerned with how we can bring stability and trust to City Hall.
I am concerned with how we can bring stability and trust to City Hall.
Our great strength is people like you here tonight.
With you carrying the message to your friends and neighbors, with your help, with your dedication, and with your determination, together we are going to win this election.
All right! I am pleased to be in my position as State's Attorney.
You have interviewed me.
The press has interviewed me.
The Honorable George Doug.
Thank you.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for the wonderful reception and thank you, Tom.
Reverend Fathers, Henry Stevenson, distinguished public officials, Rich Daly and his wife, ladies and family, and friends of Rich Daly.
I think that perhaps subconsciously we are also interested in the good and welfare of the city of Chicago.
I don't have to tell this sophisticated audience what has happened in the last three and a half years to the city of Chicago.
And I will just ask you to do one thing as you leave here tonight.
Firmly resolve that the sun will never go down on any day between now and February the 22nd without you having done something for the candidacy of Rich Daly and for the good and the welfare of the city of Chicago, which we all love very much.
Thank you very, very much.
In 1979, why did the mayor increase consultant contracts to over $40 million in 1983? What is happening to this administration? $40 million.
And we can talk about each consultant contract.
I call it a waste of money.
$700 ,000 to tell us Chicago's number one problem is unemployment.
When they got through the line, there's no criteria.
Who is going to get the jobs? There is no input from the business community.
There was no plan.
It was a public relation.
It was a political stunt.
Just seven weeks before the election and three weeks after.
Who is going to get the jobs? What are they going to do? Was the business community involved? People stood in line for days and they found out number one is not number one.
Is there a lottery system? How are they going to select it? That is a human tragedy.
Hey, John, how are you? I'm good.
I'm going to see you there.
I'll get a haircut.
I'll get a haircut.
I'm going to see you there.
Yeah, okay.
You good now? It's 48 boards.
It's 46 boards.
We have the competent and professional people administering for the city.
You must fail.
I'll go Richard M.
Davis.
Thank you very much, Andy.
For instance, Dave Nouran -Bellini, who is an outstanding alderman of the 48th board and one who brings the finest leadership.
It's time for leadership.
What type of leadership? And what, if people ask me is, are you negative about this present administration? No, you have to look at this administration and the lack of a record.
When I say lack of a record, what are their priorities? Police, police superintendents.
I mean, there is chaos.
No one has any professionalism in the city.
I know.
They don't have that much money.
And they are competing with their TV advertising.
They're above what Budweiser televises on TV.
All their commercials, they're the best advertiser on TV.
The mayor is twice ahead of that.
They're spending over a million dollars as of today just on TV and production.
In other words, I believe they're trying to buy this election with TV gimmicks.
But the commercials, are they telling the truth? Are they saying there is a financial crisis in this city? In the month of November, December, they are paying people salaries out of pension funds.
Are they talking about a financial crisis that we see in this city? I'm asking the people to react in support of my candidacy.
I appreciate all the support.
I appreciate Senator Netsch, the chairperson of my campaign.
I'm sorry.
Money that is wasted.
We see an administration that doesn't have the plans.
When I talk about doesn't have the plans, they announce a job program.
They realize that jobs or unemployment was not important in 1979, in 1980, 81 or 82.
Only eight weeks before the election.
Jobs are a priority.
So he announced we're going to have jobs and they said come to the parks.
20 ,000 people, economic development or jobs or education or health.
That's what he's been doing.
He's not picked up the leadership role dealing with the loss of manufacturing jobs or the steel jobs or the automobile industry.
Why are we paying somebody on a city payroll to tell us what's going on in Washington? We elect congressmen down there.
You can call a congressman, they have a staff.
You have to have an energy conservation program right from the mayor's office.
Not one of these weekend blitzes to hand weatherization kits out and say here go home and try to figure them out.
You have to have people that are capable to sit down with community people and work with community people.
And to me that's what we're talking about.
We talk about consultant contracts.
In 1960s when New York went through their financial crisis, they formed an urban management corporation.
Because they didn't have any money to pay consultants.
In the Thompson debate for six months after the election we found out that this state is now in a financial crisis.
Why wasn't it mentioned in September or October? When someone has financial problems it isn't one month or two weeks after an election.
It's slowly moving up.
And this is what's happening.
This administration has lacked human priorities.
It's concerned about consultant contracts.
It was concerned about giving Brady and Griffin, they called it peanuts, $90 ,000 of consultant contracts to reorganize a public relations department of the Board of Health.
And when the city administration has increased their own public relations department by 50 percent.
And we have seen this administration talk about Springfield, talk about Washington, not having a good working relationship with legislators, whether Democrats, Republicans or Independents.
One of the things that he said over and over when he started talking to me about serving as chairperson of the campaign was that whoever is mayor of the city of Chicago in the next four years is going to have to find a way to involve all the people of this city in the city's strengths as well as its problems.
And if that does not happen, nothing will work.
If it does happen, things can work.
That, I think, is probably the single most important commitment that Rich Daly has made to all of us and to all of the people in this city.
And that is that everyone will have a chance to be involved.
Let's see that he gets that chance to get us all involved.
Thank you.
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Chicago and the people of Chicago united with Richard M.
Daly to be the next mayor of Chicago.
Chicago! Love Daly! Daly love Chicago and the people of Chicago united with Richard M.
Daly to be the next mayor of Chicago.
Chicago! Love Daly! Chicago! Chicago! Love Daly! Daly love Chicago and the people of Chicago united with Richard M.
Daly to be the next mayor of Chicago.
We work here in Chicago.
We're visiting Chicago every day.
Those ads should be placed in another part of the country.
What we see is just a public relations stunt.
Everybody enjoys parties.
We see a million dollar fireworks display.
We see lighting the bridges at $800 ,000.
The Chicago bridges.
And I don't care, we are not Paris.
The mayor thinks we're Paris and our bridges are just like the bridges in Paris.
And we better get some good photographs and look at the two.
These bridges in Chicago are working bridges.
That's all they stand for.
You can look at their architecture and that's what they're designed for.
But to light them up, who's paying the utility taxes? Paying people more money in city government.
Why are we asking 390 people at a cost of $20 million if we don't give them a pay raise to stay with city government? I'd ask any of them to put their resumes on the street.
And ask them to find a job as compared to what they were paying two or three years ago.
We look at what the mayor has done.
He's got a script and planned it well in order to buy elections for $10 million.
What I ask you to do from today on is to talk to your friends and neighbors throughout this city.
Ask them to volunteer and make a difference in my candidacy.
Because as Chicago Tribune pointed out, they not only endorse myself, but they endorse the people that supported me.
My record as state's attorney, my record as state senator, and my commitment, yes, my commitment to have human priorities.
Thank you.
A weatherization kit.
Now, people's gas gave them out just three weeks ago.
And they were so big, how can anybody fix their homes in the middle of winter and talk about energy saving? You have to run the program during the summer.
And the people in Little Village, the people in Lawndale or South Shore, Garfield or Uptown, Humboldt Park, Rogers Park, all over the city know what's happening.
You call 911, car unavailable.
You hold on a line for a couple of minutes, still not available.
It's not the city.
The key is people around the candidate.
The candidate willing to listen to people.
Bring experts in regards to problems all over the city and not have every answer that everybody wants.
Because what it is is leadership.
And my leadership in the Senate, I don't have awards, I don't have everything falling off my walls.
It's just legislation that was passed when we talk about mental health reform.
We talk about the mentally ill and the mentally retarded and the physically handicapped.
...common an audit, the procedure.
It isn't the fault of the Chicago police officer on the streets.
As I pointed out, there are less police officers, about 350 less since 1979 under this administration.
They must have more police officers.
But whether it's the International Police Association or some other group, should, I believe, review the audit control in the crime statistics report in the city of Chicago, which is a problem that exists.
