The Daily Background
| Video- Obama’s alderman reminisces on his failed 2000 House run: “He got whooped pretty bad”
Filed at 12:41 pm, Thursday February 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
On Tuesday I interviewed Alderman Toni Preckwinkle, who represents Chicago’s 4th Ward for a documentary I’m working on about a local hospital that is having financial troubles. At the end of the interview while packing up, I asked her briefly about Barack Obama’s failed primary bid for Rep Bobby Rush’s seat back in the day, which he lost pretty decisively (61%-30%). Here’s a short clip:
Obama also happens to reside in Preckwinkle’s south side Ward.
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