MDE FROM THE ARCHIVES: OBAMA CRUSHED IN DEM PRIMARY
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush Wins Illinois Dem Primary; Dorothy Brown Is Victor In Circuit Court Clerk Race
In one of the most closely watched elections in Illinois, Congressman Bobby Rush easily turned back three challengers in a recent Democratic primary victory that virtually guarantees him a fifth term in Congress.
"It feels good to have this victory," said Rush, who holds the 1st Congressional District seat on Chicago's South Side.
"I'm going to get back to work. We've got a lot we have to accomplish in these next few days, next few weeks, few months, few years," he said.
With all precincts reporting, the latest returns showed Rush with 58,709 votes, or 61 percent, and State Senator Barack Obama with 27,393 votes or 31 percent. State Senator Donne Trotter and retired police officer George Roby split the rest.
Sen. Obama, is a civil rights attorney and the first Black editor of Harvard Law Review, and Sen. Trotter is a health care administrator.
Rush, a former Black Panther, moved into mainstream politics in the 1970s, argued that he has delivered for his mostly Black and economically struggling constituents. He also stressed he is next in line to chair an influential House subcommittee if Democrats regain control of the House.
Rush's win virtually assures him re-election in the staunchly Democratic seat that is the nation's oldest Black-majority congressional district. Rush, who has held the Congressional seat since 1992, faces only token Republican opposition in the November general election.
In another closely watched election, Dorothy Brown won the Democratic race to replace Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Aurelia Pucinski. If elected in November, she will become the second Black woman elected to county-wide office in Illinois.
Ironically, Brown, a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) auditor, delivered her victory speech at Chicago's Hyatt McCormick Hotel in the same room where she conceded defeat in her bid for Chicago city treasurer last year to Miriam Santos.
"Back a year ago in this same room, I told you I will be back, and tonight I'm back," she said.
The determined and highly accomplished woman graduated at the top of her class in accounting at Southern University in Louisiana. She interviewed with seven of the nation's top accounting firms, but was not offered a job.
"I cried for a day," Brown, a certified public accountant and an attorney, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But I only cried for one day. Then I moved on."
She went on to earn an MBA at DePaul University in Chicago.
She said in a campaign press release: "I am one of eight children. Among us there are seven bachelor's degrees, six master's degrees, two attorneys, one CPA and a Ph.D."
She has served as general auditor for the CTA for the last nine years.
She is favored to win the November general election and as Cook County Circuit Court Clerk will oversee 2,200 employees.
Tracey Robinson-English, Brown's campaign spokeswoman, described the candidate's key to success.
"Politicians said they'd throw their support to her if she went negative against other candidates," she told the Chicago Sun-Times. "She wanted to win based on issues, and people were telling her the way to win in politics was to go negative, and she refused. It was because of her faith and her belief of being a Christian person and a moral person," Robinson-English added.
Brown now faces Republican candidate Nancy F. Mynard in the November election. Source: Jet, April 10, 2000
In one of the most closely watched elections in Illinois, Congressman Bobby Rush easily turned back three challengers in a recent Democratic primary victory that virtually guarantees him a fifth term in Congress.
"It feels good to have this victory," said Rush, who holds the 1st Congressional District seat on Chicago's South Side.
"I'm going to get back to work. We've got a lot we have to accomplish in these next few days, next few weeks, few months, few years," he said.
With all precincts reporting, the latest returns showed Rush with 58,709 votes, or 61 percent, and State Senator Barack Obama with 27,393 votes or 31 percent. State Senator Donne Trotter and retired police officer George Roby split the rest.
Sen. Obama, is a civil rights attorney and the first Black editor of Harvard Law Review, and Sen. Trotter is a health care administrator.
Rush, a former Black Panther, moved into mainstream politics in the 1970s, argued that he has delivered for his mostly Black and economically struggling constituents. He also stressed he is next in line to chair an influential House subcommittee if Democrats regain control of the House.
Rush's win virtually assures him re-election in the staunchly Democratic seat that is the nation's oldest Black-majority congressional district. Rush, who has held the Congressional seat since 1992, faces only token Republican opposition in the November general election.
In another closely watched election, Dorothy Brown won the Democratic race to replace Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Aurelia Pucinski. If elected in November, she will become the second Black woman elected to county-wide office in Illinois.
Ironically, Brown, a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) auditor, delivered her victory speech at Chicago's Hyatt McCormick Hotel in the same room where she conceded defeat in her bid for Chicago city treasurer last year to Miriam Santos.
"Back a year ago in this same room, I told you I will be back, and tonight I'm back," she said.
The determined and highly accomplished woman graduated at the top of her class in accounting at Southern University in Louisiana. She interviewed with seven of the nation's top accounting firms, but was not offered a job.
"I cried for a day," Brown, a certified public accountant and an attorney, told the Chicago Sun-Times. "But I only cried for one day. Then I moved on."
She went on to earn an MBA at DePaul University in Chicago.
She said in a campaign press release: "I am one of eight children. Among us there are seven bachelor's degrees, six master's degrees, two attorneys, one CPA and a Ph.D."
She has served as general auditor for the CTA for the last nine years.
She is favored to win the November general election and as Cook County Circuit Court Clerk will oversee 2,200 employees.
Tracey Robinson-English, Brown's campaign spokeswoman, described the candidate's key to success.
"Politicians said they'd throw their support to her if she went negative against other candidates," she told the Chicago Sun-Times. "She wanted to win based on issues, and people were telling her the way to win in politics was to go negative, and she refused. It was because of her faith and her belief of being a Christian person and a moral person," Robinson-English added.
Brown now faces Republican candidate Nancy F. Mynard in the November election. Source: Jet, April 10, 2000
3 Comments:
And your point? So Obama lost an election in his life! The horror, the horror!
But then only four years later he went on to crush Republican Alan Keyes by the largest percentage in a US Senate race in Illinois history (70%).
Was there a point to this? Seriously? He lost an election in his past... just like most successful politicians. Very few make it on the first time around. That boring of a day huh?
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