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Article: Hartigan performance sets the stage for '90
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 5, 1987
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Writing from Springfield
There's a new song-and-dance man in Illinois politics.
Attorney General Neil F. Hartigan, a once and future Democratic
candidate for governor who isn't renowned for his sense of humor,
played against type the other night at the annual Gridiron Dinner of
the Illinois Legislative Correspondents Association.
More than a few political figures have bombed under similar
circumstances. And some of Hartigan's friends had been wary about
whether the red-headed Chicagoan should have accepted the invitation
to deliver the political establishment's response to the press
corps's satirical barbs.
Just last year, the same group ridiculed Hartigan as a wimp for
folding his ...