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mm hmm. No, I think the answer to that question would be what elected official is not. It's easy to answer that. I don't think anybody is. Um, let me say this. I don't think that you can say who is because I don't know all

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the deals, all we can do is look at what's taken place. I don't know who has sat down behind closed doors, but we can see the, the jigsaw puzzle, um, taking place. And I think anybody who's been involved is part of the machine and I don't

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know which part who has played because I certainly haven't been privy to it. Has he been involved? Uh, I think you can answer that question yourself, Would you answer it, please? I think that the mayor has been part of this, at least according to the articles

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in the media that the mayor has been. Um, and with this whole conglomeration as to who can control the city, I think I made reasonably clear before, he never found out anything about me in the past few weeks that he didn't know for the past two

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or three years and I have to list harvey is among my most ardent and devout supporters during both my Senate campaign and my campaign for mayor. So I don't mean to say that rhetoric doesn't have some substance if, uh, if the people of that district believed

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that the coalition of public officials, elected public officials, who happened to agree on a candidate constitutes a machine. And by all means. I think he ought to run on that basis. I also have the right to determine how I would have my officials conduct themselves, and

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to what extent they would devote their time to public office. I have no hesitation in telling you that all of my staff members were told in no uncertain terms that they are not to run for public office, or if they plan to run for public office,

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I wasn't going to appoint them to their positions.