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<blockquote data-quote="South Farms" data-source="post: 1302722" data-attributes="member: 590046"><p>Gee, I wonder how Steve got that job. Reminds me of a story told by Abner Mikva way back in the day:</p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px">One of the stories that is told about my start in politics is that on the way home from U of Chicago law school one night in 1948, I stopped by the ward headquarters in the ward where I lived. There was a street-front office, and the name Timothy O'Sullivan, Ward Committeeman, was eloquently lettered on the front window in black and gold paint. </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px">I walked in and I said "I'd like to volunteer to work for Adlai Stevenson" </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px">This quintessential Chicago ward committeeman took the cigar out of his mouth and glared at me and said, "Who sent you?" </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px">I said, "Nobody sent me." </span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></em></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 10px">He put the cigar back in his mouth and he said, "<strong>We don't want nobody that nobody sent</strong>." This was the beginning of my political career in Chicago.</span></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="South Farms, post: 1302722, member: 590046"] Gee, I wonder how Steve got that job. Reminds me of a story told by Abner Mikva way back in the day: [I][SIZE="2"]One of the stories that is told about my start in politics is that on the way home from U of Chicago law school one night in 1948, I stopped by the ward headquarters in the ward where I lived. There was a street-front office, and the name Timothy O'Sullivan, Ward Committeeman, was eloquently lettered on the front window in black and gold paint. I walked in and I said "I'd like to volunteer to work for Adlai Stevenson" This quintessential Chicago ward committeeman took the cigar out of his mouth and glared at me and said, "Who sent you?" I said, "Nobody sent me." He put the cigar back in his mouth and he said, "[B]We don't want nobody that nobody sent[/B]." This was the beginning of my political career in Chicago.[/SIZE][/I] [/QUOTE]
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