
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1991                   TAG: 9104030594
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHICAGO                                LENGTH: Medium

DALEY ROUTS FOES FOR FIRST FULL TERM IN CHICAGO

Mayor Richard Daley was elected in a landslide to his first full term after one of the dullest campaigns in Chicago's down-and-dirty political history. But to Daley, that was a good sign.

"This campaign was a milestone for all of us," Daley, 48, told cheering supporters Tuesday night on winning a four-year term. "We've shattered the myth that with a Chicago election must come bitterness and name-calling."

The son of Chicago's legendary Boss - the late Mayor Richard Daley - crushed Eugene Pincham, a former judge running on the Harold Washington Party ticket; Republican George Gottlieb, and James Warren of the Socialist Workers Party.

Daley was elected in 1989 to complete Washington's second term after the city's first black mayor died. The coalition of blacks and progressives that put Washington in City Hall splintered at his death and never recovered.

Turnout was projected at 46 percent, likely to be the lowest ever in a Chicago municipal election and eclipsing the previous low of 47.3 percent in 1975 at the height of the elder Daley's 21 years as mayor. He died in 1976.

The perception that this Daley was a shoo-in was partly to blame, his campaign officials said.

He had the all-important Democratic nomination in the Democrat-dominated city of 2.8 million people. The GOP last won the mayor's office in 1927.

During the low-key race, Daley declined offers to debate Gottlieb and Pincham and instead made plans for his re-election.

Pincham campaigned on allegations of police brutality and government bias. Gottlieb, a police sergeant, labeled Daley the "silver-spoon" candidate.

Daley was endorsed by the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Defender, the city's black daily.

Daley trailed Pincham, who is black, in nearly all predominantly black wards but captured 25 to 30 percent of the black vote, said Daley media consultant David Axelrod.

"It's really an incredible achievement," Axelrod said. "It reflects as much as anything how much progress the city has made in the last couple of years.

In elections elsewhere:

Wisconsin voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would enable the state to buy, build and refurbish private housing for the poor.

Backers of the "affordable housing" amendment included the Wisconsin Realtors Association and advocates for the homeless. Opponents charged the amendment would encourage "full flowering of the welfare state in Wisconsin."

In Colorado Springs, Colo., voters approved amendments requiring voter approval of any new taxes and authorizing tax cuts.

by CNB