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Why Dorothy Brown would make a good [Chicago] mayor
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Feb 02, 2007 11:19am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Friday, February 2, 2007 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Dorothy Brown is a mayoral contender about whom the media and the public know too little. The usual assumption is that Mayor Daley will win the election anyway. But Feb. 27 is an election, not a coronation.
Since 2000, Brown has been clerk of the Circuit Court with a staff of 2,300 and a budget of $100 million. She is an attorney, a certified public accountant and a businesswoman with success in both the business and public sector of Chicago.
She is one of eight children born to a staunch unionist father and a deeply religious mother. Dorothy remembers her childhood days growing up in the small, southern town of Minden, La. Although her parents were poor and uneducated, they instilled in her the values of sacrifice, and self-discipline and the importance of obtaining a good education. Dorothy helped her father pick and chop cotton on the family farm in Athens, La. But she and her siblings all acquired advanced college degrees. Like many successful Chicagoans, hers is a Horatio Alger success story.
As she sums it up, "All my life, I have tried to conduct myself in a manner that would please my father and mother, because I know I am a representation of the hopes and dreams that they instilled in our family."
Brown is an attractive African American like Barack Obama and Carol Moseley Braun whom whites can easily support -- as she proved by getting 800,000 votes in Chicago for re-election as clerk in 2004.
For this election as mayor, she filed 49,000 petition signatures -- twice the number filed by Daley. By Dec. 31, she had raised $500,000. By Feb. 27 she has a reasonable chance of raising another $500,000.
She has 800 volunteers now and is launching a multipiece direct mail campaign to 178,000 households. The mailings will start landing in your mailbox soon, and television ads will be on your TV screens. |
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