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Illinois

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2015, 11:21 PM Apr 2015

So...is the result we saw in Chicago what was meant to be caused...

...by making the mayoral race there "non-partisan"?

That is, giving long-term control of city hall to a Third Way-GOP coalition?

Can't see any other interpretation to be had, looking at it from outside.

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So...is the result we saw in Chicago what was meant to be caused... (Original Post) Ken Burch Apr 2015 OP

It was originally -- very specifically -- to prevent another Harold Washington. Joe Magarac May 2015 #1

Joe Magarac

(297 posts)

1. It was originally -- very specifically -- to prevent another Harold Washington.