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The Unconventional Candidacy of Dawn Clark Netsch
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| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 07, 2013 10:13pm |
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| News Date | Friday, January 7, 1994 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | On a balmy evening in late October Dawn Clark Netsch opens her gubernatorial headquarters on the sixth floor of a near north-side office building and brings the revolution to Chicago.
It's hard to imagine Netsch as a revolutionary. Eccentric, perhaps, or professorial, or smart--an Illinois version of Lacey Davenport, the aristocratic congresswoman in Doonesbury. But not radical. She's the state's comptroller, for goodness sakes: chief keeper of the books, an expert on fiscal policy. Before that she was a state senator from Lincoln Park and a law professor at Northwestern University. She's been a liberal and loyal Democrat going back to the days of Harry Truman, when real radicals rooted for Henry Wallace. In this campaign she presents herself as a fiscal conservative who knows better than anyone else how to trim fat from the budget.
And yet from her opening remarks to a crowd of well-wishers bunched around three tables piled high with pizza, pasta salad, liver pate, and salmon mousse, it's clear she's making the most radical deviation from conventional wisdom any mainstream politician can imagine: she's endorsing a state income-tax hike.
Oh, it won't be a huge hike--no more than one or two percent. The fine details haven't been worked out. And, as she quickly points out, it would be joined, like one Siamese twin to another, to a property-tax cut. |
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