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Alright! Oh yeah, me, I'm...
This microphone right here says Michael Mcmahon, the son of Jim Mcmahon.
It's so great! Hey there! Hello! There's some...
Um, Annie and, um...
I can't get...
Oh no! Let's hold it.
I'm gonna take a picture of you, you can whip it a mile.
Oh, head off! Oh, Jim! Oh, Jim! Oh, Jim! Yeah, this is a totally non -critical day.
Anyway, I'm glad you're all here and I have extra buttons for any of you that would like them.
Say Heinz -Romero on them.
Hi, this is my name.
No one backs out.
Thank you.
Alright! Alright.
If you can just give me the rundown of how the resignation...
The mayor this morning...
That's probably what I told him.
The mayor this morning accepted the resignation of Renal Robinson as chairman of the CHA board.
Renal said in his resignation letter that he felt the interests of the CHA would be better served if he were to remove himself as a personal issue.
And the controversy that's going around him, Renal Robinson, at a time when there are so many pressing issues of life and quality of life and safety and health, preparing for winter, dealing with the budget problems that the CHA has, if Renal Robinson personally becomes an issue, gets in the way of that, handling those problems, then he, Renal, should remove himself.
He said that last week and this morning the resignation was accepted.
Did the mayor...
Blame Mayor Washington for installing, advancing, perpetuating the reign of Renal Robinson.
Well, the, as I say, the record of CHA over the past four years is, needs to be compared to the shambles in which the CHA was left when the previous mayor left the office.
Every time you talk about a tenant revolt, it sounds as if you're suggesting that the mayor ought to be paying a high political price among folks who you think would support him overwhelmingly.
Are you suggesting that you feel he's squandered a lot of political capital there? I'm suggesting that a high human price is being paid here, that people have been put through discomfort and suffering and a lot of problems that were unnecessary if there had been professional management in place.
I don't like anything that I've seen about this agency and it seems to me that we're still only seeing the tip of the iceberg because every day there's a new disclosure.
Tommy, is it safe to assume, is it safe to assume that the only, that you see the only real solution is the new mayor? Well, that would certainly help.
But I think beyond that, beyond that, we've got now to move quickly, to put a professional administrator in place who will bring this agency into some kind of order, who will take a look at the problems that exist and who will put together a plan to do something about it.
Isn't it always in this way? Is Brenda Gaines not that person? No, adequate.
Brenda Gaines is only in there as a temporary appointee.
No question about it though, the Mayor of Washington and his administration have had the opportunity over the past three and a half years to do the kind of job that they said they were going to do, but they totally failed to do it.
You know the mayor's answer to this.
Was it just as bad then in the Brown administration? This, the Chicago Housing Authority has not been, I have said, I said then and I'm saying now that it was not and it is not properly run.
I believe that it cannot be tolerated, this management of this agency cannot be tolerated.
Changes have to be made.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Are you ready for the luncheon? Yes, are you ready for the luncheon? You are ready for that.
This is the recipe.
The recipe that the SXU is 2000 years old.
The people are coming in to buy stuff.
This machine is the one that Washington.
This campaign is about the future of the city of Chicago.
I was called by a reporter and asked a question and I responded to that question.
When? Yesterday.
You also said that this enhanced his campaign or so you believe.
Well, one of those paths that we're talking about is the business as usual path.
The path to continue the past practices in the city of Chicago that will lead us to financial rule.
It will lead us down that road that path that completely took the New York City.
The other path that we have is the Brighton Road.
The staff, which I'm addressing myself today, is a 10 -point layout.
The atmosphere wouldn't it be? It would be nice enough getting a shot of me opening this up.
Then we'll invite all the press in and I'll show you the quarter way passageway leading to the city hall.
What the state of Illinois has completed.
Where we're blocked right at the foundation of city hall.
And we'll hold the press conference in there.
I would appreciate it if we at least have a shot here.
Keep out saying.
Open the fan lock and let's see what's in.
Okay, Sesame.
Come on in here and we'll show you what we have.
Be careful, please.
Be careful when you are getting to the construction site.
I just have one question on this.
What's their problem with them matching the two tunnels? I mean, did they already start? Did the city start their side of the tunnel? If you go over to the city side and I don't see a thing.
The city of Redmond.
Yes, the department of public works.
This is...
Other candidates prior to February 24th, for Redmond.
So we'll have a chance to know who the candidates are.
As you know, the last several days, newspapers have indicated.
There doesn't seem to be much difference between the candidates.
And a blurring between the candidates.
Look at the dog.
It's alive.
Easy.
You mean to say the GOP is being dumped on? Now he comes.
Now he comes.
That's great.
Can you back him up? Get him in the middle so we can talk to him.
I know you've all been waiting.
You gonna ride him? Sure, I'm gonna ride him.
Back up a little bit.
We've all been waiting to see patients.
You gotta get up.
He's gonna get up looking like you.
There you go.
Give me five, Daddy.
There we go.
I hate to stop, but any constituency is gonna vote for me, because I'm wet.
Steady.
There you go.
You're not gonna forget who betrayed him in this.
Who brought this election down to four candidates.
Instead of a traditional two -party system, Democrats against Republicans.
So to repeat, the riding the elephant is not only symbolic of the Republican party, that you have a choice and you have an alternative.
You have a choice and you have an alternative.
It also tells us...
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Sorry to disrupt you.
I was hoping to practice my Spanish, but nobody wanted to speak Spanish.
Sorry, and afterwards you will be able to ask him any questions that you want.
Including Rebecca, I think.
You ready, Rebecca? Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now the book I've chosen to read to you is called, On the Day Peter Stuyvesant Sailed into Town.
That is a tough name to say.
Take these birds to a cage, Peter shouted in rage.
Oh, good Dutchman, let's come to our senses.
So Peter's mad.
He wants to clean up this place.
So what do you think happened? Look at this.
A fungus.
See this? A streak of lightning and Peter.
And his voice rocked the ground with a great booming sound, like a sky filled with thunder and lightning.
Those good Dutchmen did shake, they cried.
Make no mistake, this man's temper is really quite frightening.
All you men and you maids, get your brooms and your spades.
We must work now without hesitation.
And let's work now without hesitation.
So they put up new buildings all sturdy and strong.
And they cleaned all the rubbish away.
They mended the fences and they paved the streets from the top of the town to the bay.
See them all working? To the bay and the streets.
And they filled all the holes in the walls of the fort for the colony needed protection.
And the people agreed they were clever to heed Peter Stuyvesant's careful direction.
Some ten or twelve.
The big one being that it was very dirty.
But one thing that I know, we had some children at the Sal Academy.
One of their class projects.
Hello, hello.
Nice to meet you, Irene.
You too.
Hi, I'm Mr.
Novak.
You want to step in? Oh, sorry, John, I don't have to step in.
Hi, good to see you.
Thanks, good to hear.
That's Toby and Kelly.
These are his best friends.
They're my best friends.
We love them a lot.
Well, good luck to you.
Thank you.
We tried to get our dogs in our picture, but couldn't get them in.
They wouldn't stay still.
Oh, the dog.
Where have you seen this guy? The way this thing's going.
You can tell it's a Republican dog.
Somebody said taxes and he started barking.
The Republican dog is driving.
He did create a separate authority.
I give you a toast tonight.
A toast to New Chicago, the city that works together.
From the west side to the east, from the sky onto the street, everyone's got heavy feet.
From the criminal world, from the black box to the box.
Thank you.
Let's dance.
Everybody dance.
Take care.
Your pleasure.
Let's do it again.
You all right, Dave? Yes.
You all right? Yes.
You all right? Good luck.
I want to have that.
He said was that he did not believe the mildly through vote we got.
The fact that precincts were voting 95 to 99 % for Jane Byrne.
That she came out of precincts with goose eggs and one and two and ten votes.
So I think that is a measure of that emotion you're talking about.
I don't think it's, you need to have folks running around the street with kind of this spontaneous combustion that went on in 83 to get the same kind of response.
And that response is out there.
I mean if you look at the precincts, precinct returns on almost any of the wards that you're talking about and speaking about, I think they're back there.
You know, you can see that the support base is there.
And I think that what we have to do for the April election is one, remind folks that we have another election, that the election is not over, that it's important for people to come out and vote, that it's important for people to participate, and that one of the things that the mayor suffered under the last four years, we don't want to repeat.
And I think that if we get the message out, and that comes from just business like talking to folks at the door and talking to them on the telephone, that if we get the vote out, and we in fact get a sufficient margin so that there is no question at all about the mayor's mandate from the people to govern for the next four years, I think we can make a lot of progress in the city.
And I think that's what people want.
I mean all folks in Chicago, all the voters in Chicago want the city to move forward.
So maybe the last week, the last two weeks.
Well, see that was one of the things, is that we had a consistent theme throughout.
The position we took is that this election was pretty much a referendum on old politics versus the new politics that we've had in the last four years.
The old way of doing business in the city of Chicago versus a whole new approach that was really government for the best interests of the people of the city.
The other thing was leadership.
I mean who was best able to really lead the city into the 21st century? Hello, my name is Jackie Grimshaw.
Currently I am the Deputy Campaign Manager for Mayor Harold Washington's re -election campaign.
I have been doing Harold Washington's campaign since he was state senator in 1976 -77 when he ran for mayor for the first time.
Continuing on to his re -election to the state senate in 1978, then on to his bid for congress in 1980, his re -election in 1982, and the beginning of his mayoral campaign in the fall of 1982 into 1983 and currently.
Back here once again for the 1987 re -election.
And we'll probably be back here four years from now for the 1991 re -election.
Is that good enough? You want more? We in Chicago, we in Chicago are all of you individually and your family certainly that much.
Those are the dreams that I have for one city, one city all yours.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We want a city! We want a city! Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'd like to thank all of you for showing up here on behalf of Tom Hines.
Tom has I think a respect and admiration of all of us.
We're talking about families, senior citizens.
We're talking about a man who has a respect not only for his family but for many of us throughout this city.
Tom's career in public life is one of the finest that I've ever seen in many, many years.
And at this time I would like to introduce the co -chairperson of this event, Maggie Daly.
Maggie.
I'm going to win this election, and don't mistake about it.
Thank you.
The votes, the votes are there to defeat Harold Washington and we're going to put them together and we will win on April 7th.
One day.
This to me is the highlight of a political campaign.
A family day because it says what a city is all about.
It says what's most important.
It says what's most important in a city and for a city.
A city is not about foreign policy, about the Iran -Iraq war.
A city is about family and about neighborhoods and about equality of life for people.
It is about creating a livable atmosphere and livable neighborhoods in which people want to be and want to raise their family.
Where there are job opportunities and good housing and recreation and safety.
That's what a city is all about.
It's about families and that's why this day is so wonderful.
And I want you to know that I and the Heinz family and the Daly family, thank you very much for being here.
And let's just share a great wonderful afternoon.
Thank you very much.
The Beatles got back together just for you.
John Leonard came back from the dead.
Just to sing for your birthday.
You! What's creating you, Mr.
Steve? Us! The Beatles! The Beatles! The Beatles! The Beatles! We tried to make them serve but for some reason they wouldn't get it.
Should I go for Heinz? Yeah! Look! ...the department of fire, the school, the department of tradition, the squadron, the plane department.
He's going to win anyway so what the heck? I don't believe he's going to win anyway.
Well, even if you were saying even if he wins 51, what was that you said? I wouldn't believe him because I know he's not the best qualified person to be the mayor of the city of Chicago.
I thought Jane Burt would do a terrific job.
What about Heinz? I believe they can do good jobs.
So how do they win now? There's four candidates this time.
Get more people to vote for them than come out and vote for our Washington.
Alright.
Now, so even if he's going to win, summarize how you feel about this thing.
People say that it's hopeless, that you can't knock him off so why are you still trying? Well, I can remember every television station, every radio station, every newspaper.
Sam Janeburn had 30 % of the vote coming.
Harold Washington had 70 % and that happened on election night.
I mean there are those who say that even guys like Mel.
The mayor in New York has had a number of conversations.
Your name has come up as one of those that he's had conversations with.
What is it that he said to you? What have you said to him? Well, I've talked to the mayor throughout the last four years.
I've talked with all the candidates that are running.
We have a party tomorrow night where all four of them are showing up.
So it's a situation where we talk about how to get your deal and work with them.
I think that as the elected official from our ward, from the standpoint of the Democratic party, it's very difficult to work against a Democratic nominee.
On the other hand, we also want to take into account the way that the votes went in the primary.
So we're going to work to get the vote out and make sure that everybody who's eligible comes out and we're going to let them vote the way they feel.
Thank you.
