Honorable L.
Rother! The Barrow of Operation Bush.
She was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth.
She fought for and with the community.
Dorothy fights where she lives to improve the quality of life in the city.
She doesn't see, she doesn't just see black faces in her ward.
She sees gold in the ghetto.
Number six.
I support Dorothy Tillman because of her associations.
Someone said that you really know someone by the company that they keep.
Well, Dorothy Tillman was the National Youth Director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference under Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
when he was alive and now she is close to the mayor of this city.
I like that kind of association.
Some folks say she too close, but you can't get too close to a mayor.
You can't get too close to a leader and that's what I like about Dorothy Tillman.
Number seven.
I tell you, I'm enjoying myself myself.
Number seven.
I support Dorothy Tillman because she is a good spirit about her.
That's what we like in the third ward.
Thank you.
Thank you.
...way to even remotely duplicate what she just did.
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.
I must rush.
I had planned to stay longer, but as Reverend Barrow said, she lives in every ward.
Well, obviously she lives in every ward, so does the mayor.
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.
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, because some of the fine things that we've been able to do for that ward or that area among others.
I had the distinct pleasure, which I never remotely dreamed that I would have, of appointing the alderman of the third ward.
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.
I don't look 62, I understand that, but anyway.
So I know that ward.
I know every alley, gangway, street.
I know the neighbors, the grocers, the butchers, the candlestick makers, the people, the institutions.
As much of me in that ward as you could possibly find.
And before that, my father lived there for years.
Those other eight candidates, I'm not worried about them.
I think most of them, you know, I run scared.
I'm like Mayor Washington.
I run scared in their election.
I take every one of them very serious, but I'm not worried about them.
But I know that we have to work.
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.
You know, I walk around the street and say, I don't worry, Dorothy, you got it.
Well, if they stay at home, I won't have it.
So we got to work.
Obviously, we can't stay here.
Call 373 -3228 -373 -3228.
It's significant that the last number in the phone, on her phone, is eight.
And there are eight people running.
Anybody who knows about Poole knows.
They ain't nothing but the eight ball.
On February 26, Dorothy will be the cue ball and knock them right on out into the pocket.
As we claim the victory here tonight.
373 -3228.
We're going to translate and make it a new day.
We're going to herald hope and bring darkness.
No, no darkness but light.
Bring despair.
No despair, but hope.
Bring ignorance.
No ignorance, but insight.
Because we believe that Dorothy Tillman is a lady for this time and is one of the pastors of this city.
The Cosmopolitan Community Church.
We stand united behind her to let this city know we are not going to stand idly by it.
By any hack -a -jiff -head folk who come in at the last minute, have not paid their dues.
We are on the case.
Unabashedly and unashamedly, Dorothy Tillman is our lady in the third ward.
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.
So let's join and unite together.
For together we shall rise up and claim this city impotently.
We separate and dwindle into division.
We can do it.
You can do it.
We must do it.
Dorothy Tillman is like the little engine moving up the hill.
They said, Dorothy, you can't do it! You can't do it! You can't do it! Dorothy said, I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! They said, no you can't! No you can't! No you can't! I think I can! No you can't! No you can't! No you can't! I think I can! I think I can! I think I can! She got to the top of her Vijayaterarimus, looked down at all the naysayers, and said, I know I could! I knew I could! I knew I could! I knew I could! This is Dorothy Tillman.
We can do it together.
Now would you reach out and get your neighbor's hand? Would you reach out and get your neighbor's hand? As we let us pray together now let us become still.
Let's become simple for the purpose as we heighten hope and make this day a new day, a day of victory, a day of vision, a day of virtue, a day of veracity for we are claiming none of ourselves but through the power that is in the name of him who is even the liberator, even Jesus the Christ.
Victory is ours and victory is ours forever.
In naming her as the ornament of that war.
So politically motivated and so selfish in their motivation that they have no concern for anything else but to sow dissension, sow disruption, try to hold this city at break level for the next two years so they can point and say, well the city couldn't move when actually they were responsible for it.
It reminds me of the young man who killed his mother and then pleaded before the judge that he was an orphan and therefore was entitled to mercy.
That's what's going on in the third ward.
That's what's being motivated.
So I submit to you, I submit to you, it is only you, a cross section of the people in this city who are concerned about good government, most of who live in the ward and who are focused upon that campaign.
It is up to you to call a halt to this kind of thing.
Only you through your votes, through your voices, through your intellect and oh yes, through your contributions, you can end this kind of sorry business.
Chicago has turned a corner.
It turned it two years ago.
It's not going back even though there are those who want to hold back the dawn.
It's continued to create friction and turmoil.
I think all we have to do is that as these issues arise, take the side of the right and the good and win.
For example, we have appointments to be made.
They've been pending for years.
We're going to test that in the course.
We're going to test it in the communities.
We're going to test it everywhere.
The age of whatever she is with five children, married to one man for 17 years, that's got to be an accolade of the highest choice.
I'm calling upon you to give one rousing cheer for the now and future alderman of the Third War, Dorothy Tillman.
Yeah! And uh, what day is it? Sunday? Sunday? I'll see you Sunday at Lou Palmer's badge at push.
Thank you.
He supported me to run the community campaign.
It's not a matter of any love fest.
The fact of the matter being from the Third Ward, I do understand BS when I hear it.
You're at City Hall all the time.
You know what goes on behind those chambers.
I mean, you should know yourself.
Most of that stuff has got to be a big joke.
The mere fact that one of the things he said was that I don't know anything about being around Dr.
King.
You all know that stuff.
Well, you all think that you don't know anything about politics.
I mean, that's what I'm saying.
I wanted to make sure that if there were threats in the presence of the mayor, there would be proof.
The tape was not to be used to blackmail or in any other way embarrass the mayor, but it was to ensure that if I had to go to court, I would have some leg to stand on.
But Walter, it's very clear, the mere fact that Skipperwell said that Tyrone can advise him to go there with a tape.
Now, he has a history of being controlled.
The fact that Tyrone can intend to control the Third Ward from the jail.
And he went there and he said Tyrone told him that he would not leak anything but a little bit of the tape.
But now he's saying that there's two other tapes.
He said Tyrone advised him to go there with the tape.
But now, to speak from my knowledge, when he started talking about it on the news, I mean, I don't have anything to do with it.
I don't even know what side of town he worked on.
Okay.
Thanks very much to both of you.
A lot of questions still unanswered.
We'll try to get him answering the tapes to come still ahead now on the Channel 2 News at 5.
29 is 29.
Well, he leads the group.
I don't know.
I mean, that's something Skipperwell told you where the tape came from.
I mean, he's been telling everybody.
He's running off at the mile.
But 29 is 29 and Verdoliek is 1.
And there's a big difference between the two.
I think it was evidence that he made him to go do that.
He also said that Mr.
Kenna promised him, he said Kenna promised him that he would only leak a little bit.
He wasn't expecting the whole tape to be leaked.
So that's evidence right there that it was a setup.
It was a setup to embarrass the mayor, to embarrass myself, and it really brings a whole type of division within the black community.
I say it was because I grew with my mayor.
It wasn't nothing but BS.
So, be it that we're in the third ward, and we understand the third ward, and we understand what BS is all about, we decided to leave the BS back there and get ready to move forward for February 26.
Now, I told y 'all, I told you that this was about a movement.
This is not about Dorothy Tillman.
This is not about Mayor Washington.
It's about a movement.
We're down a lot of noise right now, but we also know that we gotta win this election.
If we can't win this election, it's just about being fired up in here.
We gotta be fired up in the street.
Because there's something about love, and there's something about the way you feel.
If you're fired up when you hit the street, everybody you meet will get fired up.
See, not only have you got to fire them up by talking to them, but you gotta bring in your pluses and your minuses.
We gotta know why all our votes are out come February 26.
We don't intend to have a runoff, because we know what a runoff means.
A runoff is very simple.
Don't you know we are forced into a runoff on February 26? These same forces that BS is all attacking.
We'll be running around from February 26 to April saying, oh, we defeated Mayor Washington, we defeated Dorothy Tillman, we did this.
Understand what kind of game we are playing.
This game is very serious, and it's very real.
It's about a movement.
It's about whether we're going back or whether we're going forward.
I may go for 30 years.
Applause Applause Applause Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, the election of Dorothy Tillman is the extension of a movement, as she pointed out.
It's important.
I can't think of anything more important than her election, and I'm not even concerned about it.
I know it's going to happen.
Applause I'm getting out of it.
It's justified to be so, but it's hard.
It's hard.
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