{"id":272374,"date":"2010-02-03T13:34:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0128775acf64970c"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:34:33","slug":"daley-wont-say-whether-hynes-should-concede-in-democratic-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272374","title":{"rendered":"Daley won’t say whether Hynes should concede in Democratic governor’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by John Byrne<\/em> at 12:35 p.m.
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<\/br>Mayor Richard Daley today called on candidates who lost in Tuesday’s Democratic primary to get behind the winners.
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<\/br>"I lost an election to Harold Washington in 1983, and the next day I had breakfast with Harold, and I supported him. Just like a basketball or football game, it’s over with, then you support the individual" he said.
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<\/br>But Daley refused to say that Comptroller Dan Hynes should concede to Gov. Pat Quinn and help strengthen the Democratic push to hold onto the governor’s mansion.
\n"I don’t know. It’s real close," the mayor said. "I don’t know all the — I haven’t seen the end result."<\/p>\n

Hynes trails Quinn by about 7,100 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting.<\/p>\n

Daley also praised Chicago Ald. Toni Preckwinkle, 4th, who won Tuesday’s Democratic Cook County Board president primary. The mayor said voters were drawn to Preckwinkle because they believe she will stand up for them.
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<\/br>"The one thing about the voters, they will select who they want. It doesn’t matter who’s going to anoint somebody," Daley said. "(Preckwinkle) worked very hard, and so, she knows government, and she’ll do very well there," Daley said.
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<\/br>Democrats up and down the ticket need to keep working if they want to win in the general election, he said.
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<\/br>"Don’t count your chickens before they hatch," he said. "You have an election in November. I know everybody thinks they’re getting elected, but you’d better campaign for this."
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<\/br>The mayor talked politics at a news conference to spotlight the recently-opened stretch of the pedway passing through the Block 37 shopping center downtown. "They’re going to select who they want, and that’s called the role of independence. You have to understand that."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Posted by John Byrne at 12:35 p.m.Mayor Richard Daley today called on candidates who lost in Tuesday’s Democratic primary to get behind the winners.\u00a0"I lost an election to Harold Washington in 1983, and the next day I had breakfast with Harold, and I supported him. Just like a basketball or football game, it’s over with, […]<\/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-272374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272374","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=272374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}