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  1. “It's where I start. When you talk about where I start, my island, my people, it's an important place for me. And it's going to be a place when I look at the last chapter of my life. I want to make sure there is a chapter that allows me to return and do good things. Some of the things that I've just talked about allows me to contribute in that manner to that island according to.”

    2017-08-14 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 166 - Rep. Luis Gutierrez · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I should Yeah, I have petitions out there. I just ordered them yesterday. I set my voter registration card. I met with Indivisible yesterday. Great group. Wonderful group. I met with indivisible on northwest side and Humble Park indivisible, I met with the Berwin, Riverside Indivisible. It's good meeting with them. I met last week with a wonderful group of forty people in the...”

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  3. “When the sun rises on that island every day OK, there's a few days that it rains, but virtually every day, and the wind flows from the east coast to the west coast every day. Why aren't we harnessing that energy? Why don't we have an agricultural system in Puerto Rico that produces what we eat? We can do it.”

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  4. “Every ship has to be American made and every ship has to be American manned by American citizens, right? So if you're in the Dominican Republic, you can get a ship from a Central American country. So there is a huge cost to the Jones Act and to having the U.S. merchant Marines be the only vessels that allow merchandise to be shipped from Puerto Rico or shipped into Puerto Rico. That's colonialism. And you know what it adds? It adds about 20 cents to every dollar of purchasing in Puerto Rico. So what do I want? I want to revamp of the economy of Puerto Rico. I believe in independence for Puerto Rico, but I know that I need a strong economy. Here's what I go, if you went to Puerto Rico, how the hell is it that we're still using and importing oil for our electrical system?”

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  5. “To people. You know what? What brings that a job where you go out and earn a living. And too many times it's the culture of colonialism in Puerto Rico that prevails. And I want to have a debate about jobs. And if we can have that debate about jobs, then Puerto Rico can work itself. Lastly, look, why is it that everything that enters Puerto Rico and exits Puerto Rico is under the Jones Act of 1920? And I'll explain it to you. That means...”

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  6. “Look, I think the way forward is to talk about jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. We never, you know what people fight about? Can we fight about who's going to get more food stamps? Who's going to get more money for healthcare? Who's going to get more Section A voucher? Those things are important, David. But you do not create an economy, right? Out of assistance from the federal government. When is the federal government going to talk about creating jobs on the island? So we eliminated Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code that allowed pharmaceutical companies to establish themselves in Puerto Rico that allowed all kinds of companies to establish. And they created hundreds of thousands of jobs. So what we have to talk about is, you know, if you want a more towards independence, if you want to move towards statehood, if you want to move to a greater autonomy, you need a sustainable economy. And I want to talk about what brings dignity and self-respect.”

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  7. “And the sovereignty over Puerto Rico rests in the Congress of the United States. Now this radical independentista is not the one who's claiming that, although I have for the last forty years, it is Republicans that pass Promesa, which is the act that sets up the control board in Puerto Rico, they said we can do this because you are our colony, you are our possession, and we don't need to consult with you. So I was saying, well, welcome. If I had said those things in 1950 in Puerto Rico, I would have been locked up under La La de la Mordasa, which was our Smith Act in Puerto Rico.”

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  8. “Wow, I think the way for look regardless of how you see the situation in Puerto Rico, when you impose La Junta, which is called in Puerto Rico, when you impose this board that's unelected and unaccountable to anybody. Here's what I like to say. Can you imagine Illinois? We had to run our state finances and four Republicans were in charge to three Democrats on a seven port. We'd never allow that to happen. That's what's happened in Puerto Rico. So look, the bondholders are going to get paid. They're already closing down early 200 schools, right? They're talking about a cut of 25% to every pensioner in Puerto Rico. They're going to shutting down hospitals. They're going to pay the debt. And there's nothing. And the governor of Puerto Rico says, oh, well, I'm going to stay.”

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  9. “Democrats have to be consistent. You know, if this were defunding planned parenthood, we wouldn't even have a question of Democrats sitting down and negotiating for that budget. If this were to eliminate same-sex marriage, we wouldn't have a conversation as Democrats whether we were going to vote for that budget. I mean, there are things the Democrats, you know what? If it's for deportation and splitting up families and destroying the dreamers, Democrats have to say that's a line we won't cross either. That's a key fundamental value of our democratic party. And, you know, and I think we're going to meet that challenge. I really do believe we're going to meet that challenge.”

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  10. “There won't be the votes. There won't be the votes. There won't be the funding for the government because we're not going to fund. And I am going to insist the Democrats look, David.”

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  11. “I gotta tell you Give him past budgets and the reliance on the Republican Party on a large substantial number of Democratic votes. You remember under Barack Obam It happened on a few occasions. If they include a wall, I just don't see that. The Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives and the US Senators would basically have to turn their back on a key constituent group, right, which are Latinos, and on fairness and justice, because it's immoral to talk about that wall. I mean, you remember what I told you.”

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  12. “Right. You know, they're in general. So I told him that, and Senator Babenendez was there, David. I said, Senator Bamenendez put 69 people together. I said, so you're clearly telling us, and that's what I made the call. I walked out of the room. There were a lot of press out there, and I said, We have to get ready for them to revoke this because Senator Sessions is not going to defend us in court.”

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  13. “Does the general do hese orders are deportation? So look, he keeps telling us, oh, I like the dreamers. You know, I'm the only one standing between their deportation because everybody wants them deported. And then he says, but that's going to be held in the hands of Attorney General Sessions. And I looked at him. I said, do you really understand Mr. Secretary what you're saying? Do you understand? He says, well, he's a fair man. I see he's a fair man. He is the most ardent anti immigrant senator. And I said, and Cotton and Purdue are all they're doing with their new legislation, immigration, is, you know, to me, they're like in general casting.”

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  14. “discretion you are deporting people, some of whom have been reporting to your Department of Homeland Security for ten, eleven, fourteen years. Barack Obama instituted and really broadened prosecutorial discretion. So they're literally in America today, yes, hundreds of thousands of people that do have an order of deportation that's being held in abeyance, right? using prosecutorial discretion because they have American citizen children. I'll give you Mrs. Leno. She must leave on the twenty third of August, David. She has six American citizen children and she has an American citizen husband. A lot of people say, how could that be? Well, because she entered the country illegally, yes. And there's no way to fix it. So the way the administration fixes is say, well, this is an injustice and this is something unfair. We don't want to separate her from her sex Americans to enter her husband, American citizens and husband. So we're going to let her stay for 14 years she's reported.”

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  15. “I don't think he knows what he's doing. I think he has absolutely no understanding of the Department of Homeland Security. He may be a great general, but he knows nothing about the Department of Homeland Security. He said to me, he said, well, Louise, all my lawyers are saying to me that the president executive order on DACA on the Dreamers is illegal. I said, well, I know four really great lawyers who don't. And he says, who would those be? I said, four Supreme Court justices. He says, this went to the Supreme Court. I said, yeah, it was a four in favor and four against the President Obama's executive. He didn't know that. Then he says, well, you guys should fix this legislatively. And I told him that I introduced in a bipartisan manner right after the election and the first weeks after the election. He didn't know about the legislation. Then the last thing I told him, stop the deportations. And he says, those are court ordered. I said, Mr. Secretary, you have the power using your prosecutorial.”

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  16. “Like within 15 seconds, he said, Mexicans are murderers, rapists, and drug dealers, and yeah, there's a few good ones, but we have to get, I mean, you remember when Barack Obama said that that cop hired, there was a policeman who went and like arrested a Harvard Black Harbor professor. And he had to go have beer with him on the lawn and make up that it wasn't a racial incident because the president defended a black professor against what clearly to most of us was excess of the police department. But this man Gets to repeat it at nauseum”

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  17. “There are enough votes to get it done. And there are other people like Lindsay Graham that will do the immigration bit, but they won't give us a vote. And I don't think they're going to give us a vote. I don't think this president's going to give us a vote. And I wouldn't be surprised if he says he'll, because look, David, he walked down the escalator. And you can go to YouTube. Don't take my word for it. Go and refresh your memory.”

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  18. “If he calls a meeting, I'll be there. I think part of leadership is especially when it's very, very dark, to have hope and to see light at the end of the tunnel. And if you can't see that, then maybe you should, you have to be realistic. You have to be honest. But you always have to give an opportunity for success. Because if you don't, then you're doomed to failure. In my opinion, even as death. As difficult as it may seem to be. So I've worked with Senator McCain for now for 15 years. He has a real commitment to immigration reform. We introduced the bill in 2004.”

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  19. “They know that any day of the week, any hour of that if you propose immigration for it, it'll pass. There are enough Republicans and Democrats to pass. They will never give you a vote. They did it to us. Remember, 69 senators in June of 2013 under the leadership of Barack Obama passed comprehensive immigration reform. We never got a vote on it in the House of Representatives. Never got a vote. Had we been given a vote, we would have gone to conference. And President Obama would have signed the bill. They never give us a vote. So it isn't that the majority of members of the House of Representatives aren't for it. He says there's no political will in the Republican Party to allow a vote for immigrants. That's unfortunate.”

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  20. “Because the Republican, what unites the Republican Party is being anti-immigrant. It is the one thing that unites them across the board. And he's not going to counter that. When he ascended to speaker, his first public commitment was to never bring immigration for a vote to the House. Why? Because the radical right of the Republican Party that controls the House of Representatives 2025 of them, right?”

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  21. “What a change. He stood here in the city of Chicago with me. He had just run for Vice President of the United States of America. It was the spring after the November election that he lost. And he was for immigration, for a pathway to citizenship, for the DREAM Act. We received him here with Mariachis. It was a festival with Ryan here. And today he stands.”

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  22. “It got 113 sponsors at introduction. So that's our dream. We don't want to call it the Dream Act because, you know, that's something that belongs to Senator Durbin. But it does all of the things that the Dream Act does.”

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  23. “Here's what the president's administration, as soon as they introduced it in a bipartisan manner, they said we're for deportation. In other words, we're for enforcement procedures. We don't want to discuss procedures of legalization. That was their response. I, because here's what happens. Here's one of the, when you do things in a bipartisan manner. So in the House of Representatives, the same Dream Act, the Senator Durbin and Lindsey Graham was introduced. I didn't introduce it because to introduce it was for me to find one Republican and then anytime a Democrat could join the bill, I had to find a Republican. So I told Nancy Pelosi, our leader and Stanny Hoyer, this is no way for us to speak to a community in need, saying, well, we don't have a bill or a proposal that saves you from the president's action because we can't fight Republicans to join us. So I drafted another bill.”

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  24. “That's a legacy that Barack Obama did leave, right? And now Trump, here's my prediction, will rescind it, revoke it before september fifth. When ten U.S. attorneys have said, ten Republican U.S. attorneys have said, if the president does not rescind that executive order by September 5th, we're going to a judge and we're going to ask the judge to find it unconstitutional and revoke it in the court. My prediction is probably Trump will rescind it or revoke it before then.”

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  25. “New chief of staff. And I go with Senator Bob Menendez, and we argue for prosecutorial discretion. You know, President Obama's first response was he wasn't a king, he wasn't a dictator, he couldn't just do it all by himself. We continue to say, yes, you can do these things. And in June of 2012, he signs the executive order of DACA, which is basically the Dream Act in an executive order. Today, just so we see the success of that, 800,000 young people who arrive as children in America today have a work permit, today have a Social Security card, they are in the city of Chicago, they are doctors, okay? They are school teachers. They are in all the facets of our daily life. 800,000 people.”

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  26. “I went to go see the president. So we lost the majority in the House And we're weaker in the Senate. And the president caused me and another group to the Oval Office. It was very generous meeting at the Oval Office with us. And he said, All I can do now is protect you and protect immigrants. I want you to put your thinking cap on as we go for the recess for the crystal. And when you come back in January, bring me your best ideas of how I protect immigrants because we now know we don't have a majority. And so I did. And I came back. It was February of 2012, right? I'm sorry. I can't remember. 2011? And I go back and we meet with Bill Daley.”

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  27. “And we said, if you came when you were younger than 16 with your parents undocumented, we were going to say we're going to protect you as children that came here. So it's the DREAM Act. And we passed it in the House of Representatives, and it got 50, it couldn't pass closure because even Republicans who were original sponsors of the Dream Act with Dick Durbin, his original sponsors, bipartisan, voted against Cloture. That just tells you how difficult it is to work in a bipartisan manner many times in Washington, D.C. So we didn't. And then, because he came to see us, so I went to see him.”

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  28. “We actually passed it in the House of Representatives in November of 2012, right? We had just lost the majority. No, I'm sorry, sorry, it had to be 2010, right?”

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  29. “No, I didn't go down there. You were smart. It was very close. It was freezing. It was freezing down there. But I was for Barack Obama for President of the United States. And I remember going back to the Hispanic caucus. And they were all looking at them as I guess you got to be with your senator because they were all for Hillary Clinton. They were all for Hillary Clinton. And I said, yeah, I'm for Barack Obama. And in the end, I want to say this. Yes, the majority, the vast majority. I know people, the vast majority of Latinos voted for Hillary Clinton. And yet, in the general election, an overwhelming even higher percentage of Latinos voted for Barack Obama to send them to the presidency. So I'm going to brag about the Latino community. They can be for one candidate in the primary and then...”

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  30. “Make a mistake, and we so we didn't see malice in his action. And after that meeting, I think we became even closer, right? Because I remember him telling me, he says, at the meeting with the activists, you are going to sit next to me, Louise. I said, I will move from that chair. Anyways, I told him, yes. I said, I said, you know, I said, Senator, you know what I want? He says, yeah, you want comprehensive immigration reform. I know that'll be a key issue for me. And I'm going to get it done the first year. And I was excited. And I said, let's go. And I told him absolutely. He came back from his vacation, gave the speech, was it down in Springfield? Yeah.”

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  31. “A few months before he had voted for the fence, for George Bush's fence between the United States and Mexico, and he had called me and said I had a lot of trouble with the Latino community because I voted for the fence. And we called this big meeting together about 200 activists. You don't know about it. Nobody knows about it because we kept it internal to our community. We had a great degree of respect and love for him. And we saw him as a freshman senator.”

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  32. “And I'd like to ask you if I decide to run whether you're going to support me or not. And of course, I've been around the block a few times. So I'm like, I said, that's cute. I said, you've already decided you're running for president of the United States. You just want to make sure Luis Gutierrez in your own backyard isn't going to stick a knife in your back when you start. And I said to him, I said, well, you know what I represent. Now, remember, when he was a US senator, he would frequently talk to me and other members of the, I mean, he kept in constant contact and phone calls. What do you think I should do? Always ask him very, I felt very, how would I say, honored and, you know, humble that he would call me up, a U.S. senator? He might be the freshman U.S. Senator, but it was nice. So we would talk all the time. And he said to me, of course I do.”

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  33. “So, I mean, for me, in my life, I still remember Barack Obama is a freshly minted U.S. senator, and it's November. It's late November, early December, and he says, I'm going to Hawaii, which was no surprise to me because everybody knows he goes to Hawaii for Christmas. And he says, when I come back, I will have decided whether or not I'm running for president.”

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  34. “50,000 people. We know it's more than 50,000, but I remember getting to that goal of 50,000. And when you are part of someone's life, you know, that chapter of their life, when they go from immigrant, foreigner to American citizen and raise up and you help them fill out those papers, there is a relationship that's really lifelong.”

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  35. “They didn't get for And I went on to Congress. Now, the first thing I realized was that I had to. Bridge that gap. I'm happy to say that my percentage of my vote is higher in Little Village in the Mexican. Some people say because the Puerto Ricans know me better than on the north side of my congressional district. So you can go to any part of my congressional district and you will see broad support. So I had a Mexican American candidate, very well funded, Marty Castro, 2002, had over a million dollars, made sure he told everybody he was Mexican American. Maybe he looked at the results from 92. And I crushed them by a larger percentage of the vote in the Mexican community than in the Puerto Rican. So guess what? Now is a community of people we really do speak with one language. And it's wonderful. And I'd like to think that in great measure what I did was help 50,000 people become citizens of the United States in my congressional. Yes.”

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  36. “That was my Go to the Mexican, you go to Pilsen a little bit. 273 for him, four for me. I mean, it was that dramatic, right? Puerto Ricans for the Hispanic candidate of Puerto Rican descent And so there was a big divide. So that election actually was decided not by the Latino community because we split. But then the 11th”

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  37. “Excellent question. Look. In 1992, in March in the primary If you would go to a precinct on the north side where it was predominantly Puerto Rican, it would be two hundred seventy eight for me and three for Wantis.”

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  38. “Everybody that said I had made a mistake by the end of had endorsed them and been with them, including Miguel Delvalle, who ran with him as his partner for city clerk. So when you take that moment.”

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  39. “That's who a lot A lot of progressives, and I understood that, and I said to them, listen, let me just tell you one thing. I have been to barbershops. I mean, it's this very old-fashioned way of doing things. I went to barbershops, right, in my district. I went to not supermarkets, but little grocery stores in the neighborhood. I went to the guy that fixes your bicycle, and I want to run, and everybody was for daily. Now, could I have stood tall at that moment and said, regardless, I could have. But here's what I saw. I saw a candidate for mayor who was ready to sit down and discuss the future of the city of Chicago. And you know what? In the end, David.”

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  40. “Can I tell you something? Because I went out and I said to everybody, I said, look, if it was wrong to run twice against the Democratic nominee, once in the Democratic primary, and then take another shot as an independent, I said, I just became the Democratic committeeman. We just had a fight over this stuff. So now it's okay because it's two shots for an African American to take over. If I'm going to support somebody in the Democratic primary, well, you're.”

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  41. “I remember going to her apartment and sitting down there with her, and she telling me that she wasn't this bad, terrible person. I was listening. But look, we were going to do what the mayor of the city of Chicago was going to ask us to do. And there was no way. But a lot of the people in my organization, they had jobs once upon a time were given to them by James Byrne. And there was still the old.”

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  42. “Not happily, but not happily. But why did he know that? Because at six o'clock the predominantly white ethnic precincts had all voted. At six o'clock you went to Humble Park there were lines of African Americans and Latinos in lines so you knew who was voting in that election”

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  43. “Harold was so loved that if they saw somebody like Luis Gutierrez saying, I'm broke and they were going to show up with the money to say no, you're not. And there were factories on the south side. I remember going to a factory on the south side, all black workers, all making contributions and say, you got money. You keep going. He was such a beloved figure.”

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  44. “And Check Keys here. So yours was not an open. It wasn't an open and shut case. They counted the votes and we had to do it all over again. And I still remember when I walked out of the courtroom after they counted the 11 votes and said we were going to have to do a redo. And the reporter said, how do you feel? And I said, I don't know. We don't have any money. They have all the money in the world. I'm broke. I'm already in debt. They know we can't compete. They've destroyed us. I said economically. Now. By the time I got to my office on Division Street, this is, there were lines of people.”

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  45. “And I still remember walking with my lawyer from the courtroom as we were walking across the Chicago River back to the IBM building. And I told him, I said, we lost in court. They counted those 11 votes. We're going to have to do it all over again. And I remember him saying to me, he says, oh, yes, we lost him that. But we wanted a more important courtroom.”

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  46. “A majority. So I won by 11 votes. And then 11 votes showed up three weeks after the election in the basement of Cook County Jail where they held the boxes. And they opened the boxes. Some judge ordered all the boxes open and they found 11 write-in ballots, exactly the number to cause a tie, right? And then we had to do it all over again.”

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  47. “My guy has to, and you know what he told me? He said, Oh, Luis, I wanted to make sure everybody knew who to vote for tomorrow. That's why I got into that. So he made me laugh.”

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  48. “Arguing with Ed Verdolier. That was his favorite sport. But you have to say I had such love for him and admiration that I saw I didn't want to see my”

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  49. “I remember the night before I won, he called me up and he said, Lou, do you have everything you need? I said, yes, Mayor. He says, anything you want to say, last thing I said, yes, you didn't have to be on a split screen on CBS with Edward Doliac. I said that you're the mayor of the city of Chicago, he's nobody. I remember they were arguing.”

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  50. “Yes, very true Cook County Commission You mentioned And the mayor campaigned with me sometimes twice a week. I mean, literally walking up and down the streets with me. And it was wonderful having him. I quit my job at City Hall because that was the right thing to do. So I resigned so that I could campaign full-time. And we campaigned. And he, you know, I got to tell you, did he help me immensely? He helped finance my campaign. But he gave me guidance, he gave me energy, he gave me focus, plus I wanted so much to be the last vote to take down this racist resistance, this Verdoliac 29 that they called it Beirut on the lake, Chicago. And I wanted to take it down. And I remember he was such a...”

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