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it is a tossup between governor pat quinn and bill brady. mr. quinn was governor when rob blagojevich was removed from office last year. mr. brady 01 the gop primary by fewer than 200 votes. this debate is a little more than an hour. good morning, everyone. a 50 years ago in chicago, in nixon s last kennedy debate made campaign history. 102 years before that, senator stephen douglas and abraham lincoln made history in illinois. we take great pride in welcoming all of you here tomorrow for the 2010 gubernatorial campaign. a warm and union league club of chicago welcome for governor pat quinn and senator bill brady. [applause] please, do your best with block letters in short question so your moderator can get them out to our candidates. i will try to group them. please, try to get them in the early. we are going to have a rose mary reed and david cone. they will be picking up the questions from me. lucy beekeeping time for us. you do not want to miss will be keeping time fo
out of the top 23, 12 are african-american. you talked about harold washington. many people there still want to see harold washington s vision. you congressman luis gu titerre that could run. a white candidate also loved by progressives. you have reverend james meeks, i m a member of his church, major disclosure. major force on the outh side as well. so the run-off is going to be the key. no one candidate will win the election in february. the question for emanuel is can you be in the top two? cook county sheriff tom dart is hugely popular. the national media keeps thinking that s manl is a shoo-in. he s not a shoo-in to be the mayor or get to the runoff. it s going to be a tough race. he s dealing with constituents. african-americans, a major democratic strategist told me i will come to chicago and work for free against emanuel. there are people who do not like him because of what he did in d.c. that s absolutely true.
let s talk to while we cue up the video, and the challenge and, he has draw backs. i think about it as it joins there is a rahm emanuel they know. tell them about the one that they don t know. they may have seen him 2.0 if they watch that the family oriented, the rahm emanuel who was choked up talking about the grandparents. that s going to be the rahm emanuel that, he has to push that side away and relate to people. in this town this is making connections for votes and building bridges. he will have to do that now. on a 1 to 1 basis. expect him not to give grand speeches in grant park. he will be at the restaurant and greeting people. is there a candidate that can do it better? who you are talking about tom dart will go into that and. james meeks getting that constituency to come together. it is not a sure thing but tough put him in the heap of candidates as you look at this. he has the resource and the political savvy. how many other white candidate does we have i
gutierrez decided to check the temperature and viability as a candidate for mayor. i have to say i m very humbled by the public and how many of them have encouraged me. reporter: the congressman s goal was to collect as many signatures as he could that would help to put him on the mayoral ballot. each candidate should have about 25,000, if he or she is serious about running. do you think gutierrez will make a good? oh, yeah. i would vote for him. we need a change. we are proud of him. reporter: other potential candidates included cook county sheriff and second ward alderman, robert fioretti. reporter: any we action to that? good for him. i appreciate it. i think there will be a lot of people in the race. reporter: jobs and education are two of the things gutierrez said will be on his agenda. the third, not so talked about is education. i don t want the police to be fighting with the next mayor of the city of chicago. i want the police to be in harmony wi