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- NATION, Page 33Campaign NotesTHE HOUSEA Bigot Gets The Boot
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- "We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist
- reactionary Jewish misleaders." That concession speech alone
- might be enough to convince southside Chicago voters that they
- had done the right thing by ousting Gus Savage after six terms
- in the House of Representatives. Savage, 66, was beaten by
- fellow Democrat Melvin Reynolds, a 40-year-old black educator
- and Rhodes scholar, who won 63% of the vote. Unsuccessful in two
- previous challenges, Reynolds benefited this time from suburban
- additions to the remapped district and growing voter disgust
- with Savage's incendiary provocations. The race turned sinister
- as Election Day neared when drive-by shooters fired at Reynolds'
- leased car. The candidate was slightly injured by flying glass.
- Some in Reynolds' camp suspected Savage supporters of
- instigating the attack. Appearing at his victory celebration
- with his head still bandaged and wearing the bulletproof vest
- that he has been using for more than a month, Reynolds hailed
- the outcome as a "repudiation of racial politics."
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