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Is MDV under the radar? « Fred Klonsky's blog

Is MDV under the radar? « Fred Klonsky's blog

Is MDV under the radar?

Mark Wachtler, Chicago Independent Examiner:

Word in the precincts was that the debates were rigged to get Walls and Watkins, the other two remaining Black candidates, out of the race so Carol Moseley Braun could lock up the entire Black community and its 600,000 plus votes. The only problem is that the Walls and Watkins blocks of voters are smarter, better researched, independent and reform-minded than they are prone to vote for Braun just based on the color of her skin. No, if those voters move anywhere, they’re going straight to the only reform candidate left – Miguel del Valle.

Step out of your NY and DC polling centers and out of your downtown high-rise offices and into the communities. Any precinct captain will tell you they know a