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He spent most of his time meeting with honchos, going to d.c., and essentially engaging in taking huge donations from hedge fund managers and donors giving them a variety of benefits. i think when people learned about this they took note of a fact this is a mayor who rarely comes to the neighborhoods, dont engage people and his priorities are out of touch with normal chicagoans. >> i want to turn from that critique and bring clarence back in. "the chicago tribune" talked about how you did in the...

Failing to hold together his multiracial coalition? >> i think thats very significant, so was the not turned against rahm emanuel, they lost a lot of faith in him. meanwhile, jesus garcia, i have been covering him since the early 80s. since back when you were with washingtons cam spain, chuy. at the same time, it will be a uphill race, of course, because not that many chicagoans these days know chuy garcia. i think he picked up where karen lewis left off. she was a teachers head and she had to d...

People knew that when they elected them. chicagoans knew that he could be an sob sometimes, but thats what they wanted because they need some tough decisions had to be made. that didnt hurt him four years ago, but now that they have felt the brunt of it especially the teachers union and people out in the neighborhoods, now rahm is coming out on the losing end of that and we cant forget the surge of violent crimes over the last four years. >> i want to get to that but to your point, clarence, peo...