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380:, Singer served as alderman of the city's 43rd ward from 1971 to 1975. His election to this ward in 1971 saw him win 67% of the vote against five challengers. In hopes of unseating Singer, the organization had run a youthful candidate. They also unsuccessfully did the same thing in the redrawn 44th ward, in hopes of regaining that seat. However, instead, 552:, who Singer made indirect criticisms of at a campaign rally. In 1985, Singer would claim he endorsed Byrne as part of a deal to ease the passage of his cable television ordinance. Additionally, after he endorsed Byrne, she appointed Singer as the chairman of the city's Cable Access Corp., which ran local 582:
and served as its vice president. In this role, he helped to negotiate a historic contract with the city's teachers that promised to increase teacher wages and bring about reform to the city's school system structure. However, Singer ultimately failed to deliver the teachers the promised three years
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On the Chicago City Council Singer was viewed as a standard bearer of its independents. Singer was a significant member of the Chicago City Council's small but lively minority opposition bloc that opposed the political machine on various matters. Singer managed both to challenge the mayor, but also
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beat Bilandic in the 1979 election, Singer served as an advisor on the transition team of mayor-elect Byrne. When Mayor Byrne, who had campaigned as a reformer, partnered with members of the political establishment, Singer jumped to defend her, saying, "I just view it as dealing with reality, with
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Singer focused his campaign on the addressing the poor state of the public schools in the city. Singer pledged that, as mayor, he would visit each and every one of the city's 584 public schools. Singer laid blame on Daley for the loss of 200,000 jobs in the city, and pledged that as mayor he would
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Daley handily prevailed to capture renomination, winning 57.8%. Singer placed second with only 29.3% of the vote Singer underperformed in his geographic base area. Despite the expectation that the independent voters in lakefront area would vote heavily for Singer out of to distaste for scandals
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bring jobs back to the city. In 2017, historian Gordon K. Mantler opined that with much of the media's coverage analyzing the "horserace" between candidates, rather than focusing on specific policies, disadvantaged Singer, depriving him of coverage of the reform platform he was running on.
247:. Serving as the interim board's vice president, Singer negotiated an historic contract with the city's teachers that promised higher teacher salaries and reforms to the city's school system structure. However, Singer failed to deliver the promised wage increases for teachers. 460:
plaguing Daley's mayoral administration, Singer actually very narrowly trailed in the six lakefront ward 46.5% to 46.4%. Singer placed second in the city's ten black-majority wards, with Daley receiving 47%, Singer receiving 31.%, and Newhouse receiving 19.9% in those wards.
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Singer ran on a "reform" platform and campaigned heartily for sixteen months, having announced his campaign in October 1973, which was considered a quite early announcement. He raised and spent between $ 600,000 and $ 700,000 on his campaign, and had a large
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and replaced by a slate of delegates backed by Singer and Jackson. This was the biggest political defeat Daley ever endured. In 1975, Singer forwent running for a third term on the City Council and instead, unsuccessfully, challenged Daley in the
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politician. Metcalfe had considered running himself, even raising some funds for a potential candidacy before declining to run. Metcalfe, a one-time ally of Daley, had become critical of what he alleged was racism and brutality in the
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Singer would, for many years, frequently be speculated as a candidate for other public offices, but always opted against running. There had been significant calls from supporters of Singer for him to run for mayor again after Daley's
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s Paul Galloway writing that he had gone from an "outsider at City Hall to a well-connected insider who has considerable clout on a number of issues". Singer had also formed an allegiance with the still-serving City Council member
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and consultant. Singer was tied to this matter, having consulted on the deal central to the conviction, and his involvement looked into by federal investigators. However, Singer was never charged with any criminal conduct.
354:, Singer was more liberal than Daley. After his election, Singer was regarded as a leader in the lakefront liberal movement. His election was seen as ushering in an era of prominence for the lakefront liberal voting bloc. 373:
instead of a Daley-led group. They succeeded in booting Daley and his allies from serving as delegates to the convention. This was considered the biggest political blow that Daley faced during his career in politics.
513:, who had been an opponent of Singer and his fellow independent liberal wing of the City Council in the 1970s. He worked with Vrdolyak on authoring ordinances, including a bill which required residential 556:. Additionally, Byrne and Vrdolyak placed Singer as director of a special commission tasked with making recommendations on cable television and distributing franchises for cable television. In the 544:, however, defended Singer as simply being a liberal who chose to do lucrative legal work. Some liberals criticized Singer for his endorsement of Jane Byrne over Harold Washington in the 533: 536:
expressed this sentiment, while still considering Singer a friend. Noted liberal Chicago political consultant Don Rose criticized Singer as, "one of the clearest examples of a
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organization with 2,300 precinct level volunteers. Singer primary base of support from the affluent lakefront and from Hyde Park, areas that were home to the
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Singer was put under government surveillance as a target of the investigation into the scheme that led to the convictions of businessmen Stuart Levine and
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regarding the smoke detector ordinance, since he represented a smoke detector manufacturer as a lawyer. The cable television regulations earned praise.
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Some of Singer's former independent allies on the City Council expressed dismay that he had come to partner with Vrdolyak instead of Mayor
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In 2009, Edward Vrdolyak was convicted for a 2003 real estate scheme involving Smithfield Properties, for whom Singer worked as a
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Forgoing seeking another term on the Chicago City Council, in 1975, Singer unsuccessfully ran in the Democratic Party
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In 1969, Singer was urged by an independent neighborhood political group to run as an independent candidate for the
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Singer was joined in challenging Daley in the Democratic primary by two other candidates. One was State Senator
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at the firm, where he represented many large corporate clients. By the mid-1980s, Singer had become a sort of
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for mayor against Richard J. Daley. If elected mayor, Singer would have been the city's first Jewish mayor.
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against an opponent backed by the Democratic Party organization. Reform-minded, and regarded to be a
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In 1989, Singer was appointed by the newly-elected mayor Richard M. Daley to serve on the interim
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to lead a coalition of individuals who successfully fought to sit as delegates at the
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In 2017, Singer agreed to pay a $ 25,000 fine after he lobbied Mayor Rahm Emanuel by
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is an American lawyer, politician, consultant, and lobbyist who formerly served as a
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to successfully have Daley and his slate of delegates unseated as delegates to the
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While on the Chicago City Council, Singer was an independent reformer tied to the
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American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation
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This article is about the Chicago politician. For the Scottish minister, see
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to maintain cordial relations with some of the mayors top allies, such as
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After his career in electoral politics, Singer joined the law firm
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Independent Voters of Illinois-Independent Precinct Organization
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He was educated at Chicago's Horace Mann Elementary School and
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O'Connor, Matt; Gibson, Ray; Cohen, Jeff (August 18, 2006).
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From 1969 to 1971, Singer represented the 44th ward on the
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to run as a candidate for mayor of Chicago. The other was
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the fact that you can't change everything overnight".
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Green, Paul M.; Holli, Melvin G. (10 January 2013).
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Chicago Jewish Historical Society 605:without registering as a lobbyist. 569:Illinois' 1984 U.S. Senate election 421:Singer received the endorsement of 371:1972 Democratic National Convention 205:1972 Democratic National Convention 13: 969:Delaney, Paul (21 December 1974). 14: 1420: 1152:"Rezko witness cites poor memory" 1001:Journal of Civil and Human Rights 971:"Blacks Unlikely to Unseat Daley" 790:"Daley Maintains Council Control" 788:Kifner, John (28 February 1971). 759:Galloway, Paul (March 31, 1985). 180:, representing the 44th and 43rd 1202:Kass, John (November 21, 2008). 943:Stewart, Russ (April 27, 2005). 668:Rakove, Milton (February 1978). 279:After graduating law school, he 1247: 1221: 1195: 1169: 1143: 1117: 1091: 1063: 1042: 988: 718:Davis, Robert (July 31, 1981). 540:". Former independent alderman 274: 1230:"Vrdolyak under U.S. scrutiny" 1029:10.5406/jcivihumarigh.3.2.0001 1013:10.5406/jcivihumarigh.3.2.0001 895: 870: 858:. 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Index

William Singer (minister)
William Rick Singer
Chicago Alderman
Paddy Bauler
Martin J. Oberman
Dick Simpson
Alma mater
Brandeis University
Columbia Law School
Chicago alderman
wards
lakefront liberals
political machine
Richard J. Daley
Jesse Jackson
1972 Democratic National Convention
Democratic Party
1975 Chicago mayoral election
Kirkland & Ellis
partner
power broker
Ed Vrdolyak
Jane Byrne
Richard M. Daley
Chicago Board of Education
South Shore High School
Brandeis University
Columbia Law School
Jewish
interned

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