Burke’s Buddy System
And which African-American aldermen are on the hot seat? “Madeline Haithcock in the 2nd–she voted with Burke 71 percent of the time. Her opponent, Geraldine Laury, has the story, and she’s using it,” says Crown. “Arenda Troutman in the 20th voted with him 79 percent of the time. Walter Burnett [27th] voted with Burke over 90 percent of the time and his opponent Rickey Hendon’s going nuts with the story. Lorraine Dixon [8th] voted with him almost 100 percent of the time, but she won’t be in trouble because there’s so much patronage in the 8th that it doesn’t matter what she does. Dorothy Tillman [3rd] may have troubles, ’cause she used to be such an independent and now she votes almost half the time with Burke. You can bet that her main opponent, Pat Hill, knows about our story.”
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