Shawn Lewis wrote:
Who can balance class, race and geography in Ward Eight?
By: Shannon Gibney
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Originally posted 10/26/2005
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/news/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=62882&sID=4
It's wonderful when the small papers have enough space to just let the
candidates talk.
Elizabeth Glidden has a clear picture of the connection between public
safety, police community relations, and the economic changes we've been
working toward with the Sears site-Chicago Corridor redevelopment. She
clearly understands the federal instruction to clean up the
police-community relationship and the blow to people of color, poor
people, and immigrants that stalling the Police Community Relations
Council effort signals. She pointed to 11 years of confronting the
system to apply human rights law where her clients and her pro bono
clients concerns are being infringed.
On the same issue Marie Hauser says we need more cops. She cites her
work as a nurse teaching people how to navigate the welfare system, her
long time residency in the north part of the ward and working on
committees and boards in the neighborhood, as well as her one term on
the Park Board.
What I heard from Glidden in the Spokesman Recorder was an appreciation
of how to finesse the interplay of police, economic change, and pushing
the envelope in the direction of getting people working and striving.
What I heard from Hauser did not show any grasp of that interplay as
part and parcel of building the economic strength in the eighth, sixth,
and ninth wards and the northeast corner of the tenth ward. I did not
hear anything about how she would approach dealing with the real issues
for the 8th ward's residents. Hers is a traditional approach in a ward
dominated by non-traditional circumstances with no philosophical
underpinnings about how race and class figure into the equation. Hauser
does not know where the fulcrum is to lift the weight of the ward.
I have a great deal more confidence in my assertion that Glidden is the
better of the two candidates in the 8th ward for a seat on the city
council. At this juncture in the ongoing history of the South Side,
Hauser won't have either the skills or the perspective that will keep
the progress we have made and keep the ward moving forward.
WizardMarks, Central
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