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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Larry Duncan [mailto:larryd63@comcast.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 19, 2014 1:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> Larry Duncan<br><b>Subject:</b> The CTU and the 2015 Chicago City Hall Election - Labor Beat YouTube video<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='color:#7A289C'><img width=72 height=54 id="_x0031_d0c5e04-91e5-453c-89ea-d5891b5716db" src="cid:DD0ACC53-406B-4110-A7F4-8E570DD21784@hsd1.il.comcast.net."></span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>The CTU and the 2015 Chicago City Hall Election</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>On YouTube at:</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><a href="http://youtu.be/fUDwSzqPAJw" target="_blank"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#167AC6;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none'>http://youtu.be/fUDwSzqPAJw</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b>Also archived at:</b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://laborbeat.org/">laborbeat.org</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Historic, complicated, dramatic. These are some of the adjectives used about the lead-up to Karen Lewis's anticipated run for Chicago mayor against union-buster Rahm Emanuel. And the weeks just after Karen's announced brain cancer and withdrawal from the race bumped all of these adjectives up to another exponential level.</span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Labor Beat looks at the background, with new and exclusive footage, to the "run Karen run" movement and the sudden turn of events in the Fall of 2014. We show scenes from 'discussions with Karen' in Uptown where she describes her relationship with the Democratic Party; the startling announcement at the L.E.A.D. union dinner on October 31 that Karen was 'passing the torch' to Democrat Chuy Garcia (Cook County Commissioner); our archival footage comparing how mayoral candidate endorsements were democratically done back in 2010; an interview with a delegate just leaving a contentious CTU House of Delegates meeting on Nov. 5 that debated whether to rubber-stamp Karen's abrupt Garcia endorsement.</span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We also look at certain aldermanic races for the Feb. 2015 city hall election, getting some interviews and speeches from a handful of labor-based independent candidates who have either in their campaigns or to Labor Beat declared that they are neither Democratic or Republican. At the time of the completion of this video, none of these candidates are yet officially on the ballot, as they work to gather specified numbers of validated petition signatures in a difficult process set up by the election commission. (Tammie Vinson, 28th Ward; Jorge Mujica, 25th Ward; Tim Meegan, 33rd Ward; Sue Sadlowski Garza, 10th Ward.)</span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A running commentary by labor activist Linda Loew (member of AFSCME 1989) places these developments in perspective: are we seeing in this the seeds of a new political party of labor and its allies, fundamentally breaking from the Democratic Party?</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The video is also narrated by the Chicago-area radio </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>voice of Dale Lehman.</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Length - 25:49</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=432 height=243 id="_x0033_1fda2fb-182c-45ef-b9b2-99dad91bbe1b" src="cid:975F86BA-7C7C-48CC-BBFB-5CA1F2A6FDF5@hsd1.il.comcast.net."><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Karen Lewis (L), about a week before she was hospitalized and had to withdraw <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>from the mayoral race. What are the consequences of the complicated turn of<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>events that ensued? Photo: Steve Dalber / Labor Beat<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><img border=0 width=432 height=243 id=aa7c7498-56a9-4bc7-876d-8f50602dc4d2 src="cid:F19B573C-DC53-46DE-956E-3A877451D396@hsd1.il.comcast.net."></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>CTU member and delegate Ed Hershey just after a contentious CTU House of</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Delegates meeting on Nov. 5 that endorsed Democrat Chuy Garcia for Mayor. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>Photo: David Vance / Labor Beat</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><img border=0 width=432 height=243 id="_x0035_da3fa9d-f7d1-4773-a160-f4fd049ac43a" src="cid:3723ECD8-028D-4F0A-A073-F7E77D0D5E4F@hsd1.il.comcast.net."></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>CTU executive board member Tammie Vinson gets petitions signed to get on the </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>ballot for Alderwoman in 28th Ward. Vinson is tired of "lesser of two evils" and</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>is running as an independent. Photo: Larry Duncan / Labor Beat</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner, and member of the Evanston Community Media Center. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. 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