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Article: A Pucinski run for mayor could be costly mistake
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 9, 1998
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It's the wrong race at the wrong time.
That's the reaction of top Republicans to Cook County Circuit
Court Clerk Aurelia M. Pucinski's prospective 1999 candidacy for
mayor of Chicago. She has been advised that it would be folly to
challenge Mayor Daley in the wake of her crushing loss for the Cook
County Board presidency.
Pucinski, 51, has told allies that she will decide later this
week whether to proceed with a campaign. She has collected more than
35,000 signatures on her nominating petitions (25,000 are required to
make the ballot) for what will be the city's first nonpartisan
mayoral election. Allies of Rep. Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.), Daley's
major challenger, hope that Pucinski could ...