{"id":244476,"date":"2010-01-28T20:38:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef012877234bbd970c"},"modified":"2010-01-28T20:41:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:41:04","slug":"quinn-hynes-battle-over-harold-washington-ad-in-last-face-to-face-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244476","title":{"rendered":"Quinn, Hynes battle over Harold Washington ad in last face-to-face meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Monique Garcia and David Heinzmann<\/em> at 7:40 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The two Democratic governor candidates today met face-to-face for the final time before Tuesday&#8217;s primary election, with Comptroller Dan Hynes coming under fire from both Gov. Pat Quinn and a radio host over a controversial TV ad featuring the late Mayor Harold Washington.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Appearing on the \u201cCliff Kelley Show\u201d on WVON 1690-AM, the governor again accused Hynes of using decades-old footage of Washington, Chicago\u2019s first African-American mayor, criticizing Quinn to turn black voters against him.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The radio show host seized on that idea when he asked Hynes the purpose of the ad, in which Washington says he fired Quinn as City Hall revenue director because Quinn was more concerned with public relations than effective management.<\/p>\n<p><\/br>\u201cWas the intent to try to divide the black community or to draw votes from people who are racist and didn\u2019t want Washington in office in the first place?\u201d said Kelley, who frequently sided with Quinn and talked about their mutual past work on issues.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Hynes countered that he ran the ad to \u201cexplain to people that the governor\u2019s inability to solve problems and his lack of competence is not just a one-time situation.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Quinn used the live radio show to again question Hynes\u2019 involvement with his father\u2019s 1987 mayoral bid against Washington. Tom Hynes, 19th Ward power broker, made his third-party bid at a time of great racial tension in Chicago politics.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cI\u2019d rather lose the race for governor than divide the people of Illinois along race,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cThat\u2019s what my opponent is doing.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Quinn also repeatedly ticked off the names of prominent black elected officials who have endorsed him to demonstrate his support in the African-American community, a key source of Democratic votes.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Hynes asked if anyone was \u201ckeeping track of how many names the governor drops.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>At times, Hynes appeared frustrated at the amount of time Quinn was given to respond to questions, at one point asking Kelley off-air if he could respond to a \u201c10 minute monologue\u201d Quinn gave on job creation. Kelley answered &quot;no, you can&#8217;t,&quot; though Hynes later cut in.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Afterward, Quinn declared the exchange the \u201cmost substantive\u201d discussion of issues yet. Asked if it was because he got more favorable air time, Quinn laughed before state Sen. Donne Trotter, D-Chicago, interjected.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cWell, he\u2019s home here,\u201d Trotter said. \u201cNo doubt about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Monique Garcia and David Heinzmann at 7:40 p.m.The two Democratic governor candidates today met face-to-face for the final time before Tuesday&#8217;s primary election, with Comptroller Dan Hynes coming under fire from both Gov. Pat Quinn and a radio host over a controversial TV ad featuring the late Mayor Harold Washington.Appearing on the \u201cCliff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}