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Hynes uses Harold Washington's words against Quinn
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| News Date | Thursday, January 21, 2010 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Hynes uses Harold Washington's words against Quinn
In 1987 video, late Chicago mayor calls Illinois governor 'completely undisciplined'
By David Heinzmann, Tribune reporter
January 21, 2010
Democratic governor candidate Dan Hynes took his criticism of Gov. Pat Quinn to a new level Thursday, airing a new TV ad featuring decades-old video of the late Mayor Harold Washington calling Quinn "a totally and completely undisciplined individual."
The footage was filmed in 1987 after Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, fired Quinn as his City Hall revenue director. Washington lambastes Quinn and said appointing him in the first place was a terrible misstep.
"I was nuts to do it. I must have been blind or staggering," said Washington, who died about two weeks after the interview. "Pat Quinn is a totally and completely undisciplined individual who thinks this government is nothing but a large easel by which he can do his (public relations) work. He almost created a shambles in that department."
Quinn's campaign shot back that the ad is in poor taste coming from Hynes, arguing that his father, 19th Ward power broker Tom Hynes, undermined Washington. The elder Hynes for a time ran as a third-party candidate against Washington in his 1987 re-election campaign at a time when racial tensions ran high in Chicago politics.
"The late, great Mayor Harold Washington is spinning in his grave today. It is outrageous that Dan Hynes is now invoking the name of Mayor Harold Washington in a blatant maneuver to mislead voters," Quinn spokeswoman Elizabeth Austin said in a statement. "That Dan Hynes would use a 24-year-old news clip of a beloved figure to attack Gov. Quinn shows there is no limit to his negative campaigning. There also is no limit to his hypocrisy."
The politically risky ad hits on two leading themes of Hynes' campaign. First, Hynes repeatedly has tried to paint Quinn as an incompetent manager who is not up to the task of dealing with the state' |
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