Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

With Partee and his own ward's support Washington defeated Taylor. He made adjustments in anticipation of some legislators' concerns regarding the bill before speaking for it in April 1979. 8% with Northwestern University business professor Donald Haider (Republican) getting 4.

Harold Lee Washington (April 15 1922 – November 25 1987) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.