That's right.
You're a controversial young man.
I'd say he is, yes.
That's it? You're a controversial young man.
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So, bye -bye, Beach Johnson! Where's the food? You want to get it there? I got it.
I got it.
It went right through everybody.
It was great.
Welcome back.
Say hi.
How are you? Hey! Let's go! Let's go, let's go! To the float awareness! We want change! We want change! We want change! We want change! We want change! We want change! This huge political fight, a project like Navy Pier doesn't just build economic development and jobs, it builds momentum for a city on the move.
It builds pride, and even that pride is becoming padlocked.
Maybe that was the last straw for me, and I think it has been for many people.
For two years we've sat, we've watched, I think we've all learned.
But I've learned that our city has become paralyzed, and I also know that I can't sit by and just watch.
None of us can, and none of us should.
When I saw the economy growing, jobs and opportunity were being created.
We had safer neighborhoods, and we certainly had cleaner streets.
We had momentum, and we had hope.
We had an attitude that said, we will all do whatever is necessary to make this city move, and we'll do it together.
We should move in a shift of portal rather than amount.
And then with the reduction, as we tried to make clear during the debates, in reduction of real estate taxes in our last...
...the people, you discuss them with the aldermen.
You know what people really care about, they care about a safe city.
They care about...
I mean, how many times have you covered or announced...
...Hispanics laying dead on the street from gangs, a curfew at Cabrini Green, where people are being told you cannot come in or come out after 9 .30? How many times have you gone through that? I think you get out there and you talk about that to the people, then you talk about that to their elected officials.
Isn't the rip -off so deep? I don't think so.
You said you're not going to go to the...
before the Cook County Democratic Party...
...to the McConnell.
I can hear you.
...that between now and, say, even the primary, by starting so early, the campaign may lose steam? No, I started almost as early, not quite, maybe four months later in my 79 campaign.
But when...
...any committee that calls and quietly...
Well, who? Well, first of all, you called but only I can work up the ball, and then the few each leader you've been raising...
Let's clarify the issue right now.
There are 50 people sent to the Chicago City Council.
The mayor sits as the president of that council.
The programs that must be put through the council require 26 votes.
Over and above that, I respect that everybody who is sent there is sent there by the people of that constituency.
I respected all 50.
All 50.
I continue to respect, as elected officials, the 50 that are sent there.
That doesn't mean that you have to make a deal to harm your city or to do anything that would ever harm the future of this city.
Do you regret ever calling them an evil campaign? Well, those were strong words.
It was a tough campaign.
Talking about today as the future in 1987 and making a city work.
Mayor Bratman? Yes.
Some people say that you've actually been running since you beat it.
That you would have any encouragement at all in the polls if that were the case.
I really do not.
I think that the people are extremely fed up on this situation.
Just extremely.
And I don't think that they like the fight.
I don't think they like to see their programs halted.
I think people really came out here and skipped Chicago Fest.
Senior citizens come up and tell me they used to.
Channel 2, I forget where they had me.
They had me in striking distance.
The Tribune had me in striking distance.
He's got a solid base of about 42 and it drops.
It goes 40, 43.
So that's what we're talking about.
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says that good sons choose okay parents.
Tim's parents have been friends of mine for many, many years.
I want to start by putting the rascals out.
I am up for this race.
I've even lost 25 pounds in case you haven't noticed.
I've been in training.
And this time I will do a better job of explaining my plans for Illinois to the people.
I tried to do that this morning.
Finally, let me remind you, as I've been trying to do this morning with the young people who are here, that we shouldn't leave all the decisions to the politicians.
The decisions must be made by the people.
And I believe they will be made by the people in this primary.
I'm a fine public servant.
And he has put the welfare of his party and his state before his own.
I found out where the 5 ,000 votes are at.
I was going by the State of Illinois building in one of the broken air conditioners.
So we'll make sure we keep them all this time, Senator.
I should say Governor.
And next November will be a great, great day for the Democratic Party.
Good luck to both of you.
...
Senator Stevenson fumbled away the election last time, and that he would lose next year to Governor Thompson.
What has there been in his performance that makes you think he would do any better next time? Neil? Danny? ...
and help and support a family, my wife, my daughter, my parents, my friends, my staff, thousands of, thousands of good people who served with me in government.
This is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning.
We're going to go get it, all of us together.
We're going to bring it home.
Great names is going to direct this campaign, and he has promised to double my 1982 margin, just like he did for President Reagan.
See you next year.
Thank you.
It's not about power, it's over velocity.
My record, my beliefs, my principles have been consistent with my philosophy of government.
Efficient government, effective government.
It's true that our city is beset with many problems.
Let's hear it for the Oregon players.
We're not inappropriately taking you very seriously.
I think you've always taken me seriously, whether it be this time or at any juncture, because when I came into politics in 1968, I ran against the incumbent Democratic.
I was an independent.
Then the IVI got involved and helped me organize my campaign.
I ran as an independent candidate for Alderman.
So I was an outsider when I came in.
When I got elected to Alderman, I started a coffee rebind against Tom Keen, ran against Daley and the organization for assessor against Tom Tully, if you recall.
I think everybody's always taken me seriously, whether they've cared for me a great deal or not is another story.
I took you very seriously also when you said something earlier this evening, because it's something that I've discussed on the air before, and I don't really know that much about politics, but I feel kind of lonely when I discuss it.
And I was glad that you brought it up without any prompting from me.
And that is when you mentioned Jim Thompson, because it seems to me in a certain sort of way that, and you mentioned if he gets beat in a gubernatorial race, he lives in the city of Chicago, and he clearly is in love with the city of Chicago.
I mean, you see, I mean, he, like you, he, and like Harold Washington, you all eat the city up and love it.
You could work with him, couldn't you? I can work with anybody.
I've worked with Governor Thompson.
I've worked with the legislators in Springfield, Democratic and Republican.
I've worked with Democratic and Republican party members in the county board.
I can work with anybody because, you know, you can get into a camp.
Well, there's no confidence in our government and our city.
People who want to invest don't want to come here.
People want to be able to have access to the mayor's office.
People want to have the crime rate to go down and not have someone cut the police and then reduce the budget 18 million dollars more with making the superintendents send that back to you.
I'm out of time.
And no jobs? We're out of time.
Thank you very much.
You're quite welcome.
I'm John Callaway.
Thank you for being with us again.
My apologies for the voice.
I hope it'll get better soon.
Good night.
And here we have Maria Santos.
It's medium size.
And I say tonight that the inflammatory rhetoric must also end on all sides.
1986 presents a real challenge and opportunity for this organization.
We want the national party to watch us go to work to see what we can do when we're together.
We want them to watch the margin of victory Alan Dixon returns with to the U .S.
Senate.
In 1986, we're going to have a new candidate for governor.
Not that we should, because our last candidate beat Jim Thompson.
And if we'd had a recount, we could have proved it.
Besides, the only reason it was close was because Big Jim told a big fib.
Before the election, he said we didn't need a tax hike.
Afterwards, he raised taxes almost $2 billion within 30 days after the election.
We're going to live up to our winning tradition by electing our entire Democratic ticket in 1986.
Tonight, I want to say I'm honored to be part of the greatest political organization in American political history.
And I'm even more honored to be the chairman.
There was no one I'd rather have on my side than those of you who are here today.
I would like to thank all of the elected officials and participants for this dinner.
And all of you who worked so very hard.
And the outstanding great, great names that we have in the elected office here is truly a tribute to the Democratic Party and the great chairmen that have certainly preceded me.
This is not only a great organization, it's a great city.
It's a great county.
We've got the finest parks, museums, the best universities, architecture, the best neighborhoods, and the finest people in the world.
This is a great county and a super town.
And I'm most optimistic about our future.
Why the moral tone tonight? Because there's too much at stake.
We have to get our party back on track.
Our city, our county, our state, country.
Because when we're right, we're the best people to run the government of the United States of America.
I have said many times that our people haven't left the Democratic Party, rather the National Democratic Party has left our people.
Well, I'm here to tell you tonight that we're coming home.
To those people concerned about jobs, the Democratic Party is coming home.
The Democratic Party is coming home to those more concerned about victims than criminals.
We're coming home to those concerned about higher taxes and a poor business climate.
We're coming home to those parents who want a good education and a better life for their children.
We're coming home to those people who have to worry about existing day to day.
We're coming home.
And especially to those who feel that there ought to be room in our society for old fashioned values.
We're coming home.
Applause We say...
Like a thief, castigating me for being for peace, well just go right ahead and have all the fun you want to.
Because the peace army is one army that's getting larger and larger and larger and larger all over the world.
Applause Having gotten that off my chest, I will now read my prepared remarks.
I'm honored to have been invited to this ceremony, particularly because I know that you've come together for the past ten years on this day.
As a citizen of this country and of this city, I too have a deep and personal need to participate in a special ceremony honoring those who lost their lives in the war in Vietnam and those who survived and who are treated as though they are just wastrels of foreign people.
I want to say a few words today, not so much as the Mayor of Chicago, but as a serviceman, a veteran who like yourselves has called to fight on behalf of our country.
I will appoint a Vietnam Veterans Task Force by July 4th, confined to many women who served in that war, to look into, evaluate, and present a plan to the City of Chicago that will recommend a fitting memorial in commemoration to the individuals who served in the Vietnam War.
And we're going to respect the recommendations for this task force.
This task force is especially appropriate for this city because Chicago has a higher concentration of Vietnam Veterans than any other urban area in the nation.
Approximately 168 ,000 Vietnam Veterans here in the City of Chicago.
Also on this 10th anniversary, we must join hands and hearts and unite on one and only goal, to assist the living survivors of Vietnam, many of whom still suffer and are in pain, whether it's suffering from physical or emotional disability or lack of work or a multitude of other problems.
We must work together to create a better, more caring, more fruitful life for these individuals.
That is of prime importance.
On your behalf, and on behalf of those whom we mourn here today who cannot speak, I believe the soldiers we commemorate here today would want that for their compatriots.
We must act honorably for them because they can only live their lives through us.
I would like to invite you, my friends and relatives, to join me and my staff at Navy Pier at 12 noon for an informal picnic on our beautiful lakefront, where we can relax and chat informally about your problems as you see them with your suggestions as you would like to see them carried out.
So we're going to have a two -shot echo to the mayor.
I want to start answering that.
Mr.
Mayor, are you here tonight to offer your full support? We are here at the American Market.
The people have been invocating.
Good evening, everyone.
As you have just heard, my name is Mark.
I am the mayor of American Market.
I am the mayor of American Market.
And I know that Louis is going to make the best argument the 26th Ward has ever seen.
And I know that to get that right, I'm going to be the best senator.
I'm going to be the best senator.
Next, Parliament of the 26th Ward.
I'm here today in salute to all the people in this community and all around the city of Chicago that want us to speak and to have a real voice in the 26th Ward, in the 31st Ward, to represent our community in a need to be represented right.
Well, if you insist.
I can tell I'm in Louis de Terre's territory.
There's no question about it.
But first, everyone, moralis, it's a pleasure being in your company at any time, sir.
You can't live, Louis, you can't live.
Because we're going to take some representation to that city council.
There's no way we can lose.
We have a movement.
This is part of a movement.
This is part of a grassroot struggle.
And we're going to win on March the 18th.
I think that one of the important things that we're going to do during this campaign is that we're going to challenge people to look at the issues, not how well the candidate dresses.
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We are going to be a voice not only for those issues that we can govern here, but we will be a voice for the government's position elsewhere and outside of the 26th Ward.
Anything else? Though he's done great many things since then, he extended that Voting Rights Act with brilliance and with courage all over this country.
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I know.
I just keep her here.
I'm not doing enough.
And that brings me to my two questions tonight.
Number one, are we going to carry Elinor away? Are we going to win this election? Are we going to be on the bottom and the final? This year, compared to you, he'll suck it to you just as he does and has done throughout the last couple of years.
Elinor's heart rate is ending.
Goodbye.
We have an exceptional human being who deserves to represent Illinois in the United States Senate.
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