Shaw demands retraction/apology from media
Denies Washington called him a ‘two-bit hustler’
By Chinta Strausberg
Angered at “false and deliberately misleading” media reports, Chicago mayoral candidate Robert Shaw Saturday demanded a retraction and an apology from reporters who claimed that Mayor Harold Washington called him a “two-bit hustler.”
The setting of the alleged remarks took place during the infamous political rollercoaster days of the City Council Wars waged between the Vrdolyak 29 vs. Washington’s loyal 21.
“Mayor Washington called the reporters and Ald. Vrdolyak “two-bit hustlers, not me,” said an offended Shaw. He was referring to reports on his press conference in the Chicago Sun-Times and City Hall Dean Bill Cameron both of whom claimed Washington called Shaw a “two-bit hustler.”
As proof, Shaw pointed to a November 26, 1983 article in the New York Times and a November 22, 1985 Chicago Tribune which accurately quoted Washington calling Vrdolyak and the media “two-bit hustlers.”
The Chicago Tribune (INC column) article stated: “We assume we were relegated to hizzoner’s category of low-life newsmen who are ‘schlocks, low-beats, insincere, two-bit hustlers.”
Shaw labeled the false reports as “attempts to mislead the African American community. These people obviously do not speak for the African American community,” Shaw told this reporter.
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Chairman & COO National Black Wall Street Chicago
(Rev. Willie T. Barrow Consumer Education and Consumer Action Project)
Founder/Lead Organizer, Illinois Voter Restoration Civic Education Project
Chief of Staff to National Chairman, National Black Wall Street USA
"And The Ordinary People Said" News Blog, www.chicagonow.com
Chairman, Community Reinvestment Organizing Project
Listed in 2012 Edition Who' Who In Black Chicago
4655 South King Drive, Suite 203
Chicago, Illinois 60653
(Office) 773-268-6900 or direct 773-392-0165
The Rev. Al Sharpton calls Mark Allen "one of Chicago's legendary political activists and one of the best organizers of his generation"
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