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To: jrhana who wrote (381465)	9/7/2010 4:16:46 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	4 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794027

This may not be apparent to an outsider, but Richard M. is a much milder version of his father Richard J., who ran the city with an iron fist. The old man was a tyrant. His son actually had to cobble together his own machine after the old Democratic machine was torn apart by the courts. I have not been a fan of either Daley, though I have developed a grudging respect for the son for keeping the various ethnic factions in Chicago from each other's throats. Chicago may now suffer the same that Yugoslavia suffered after Tito died. Richard J's greatest accomplishment: The 1968 Democrat convention, which helped to elect Nixon. Richard M's greatest sin: Obama. The February primary is going to be very entertaining. There is no logical successor to Daley. When I was growing up on Chicago's South Side in the 50s, my parents were the only registered Republicans on the block. My father would get called for jury duty every year and occasionally our garbage was not picked up.