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Article: Robinson quits CHA // Mayor names his pastor as agency's interim boss
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 17, 1987
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CHA Board Chairman Renault Robinson, a growing liability to
Mayor Washington's re-election bid, resigned yesterday, saying the
political debate over his performance had overshadowed the housing
agency's many problems.
Washington accepted the resignation of his longtime ally, first
offered a week ago, and appointed his pastor, the Rev. B. Herbert
Martin Sr., as the Chicago Housing Authority's $30,000-a-year interim
chairman. Washington had appointed Martin to the board only last
Sept. 8.
"It has become clear to me that among all the pressing problems
of the CHA, Renault Robinson himself has become a central issue,"
Robinson said in a statement.
"I have done all that I can, and . . . ...