I Learn Something New Every Day: Alice Palmer
So there was some hoo-ha over the NV caucus process and the Hillbama people were calling each other nasty names and making all sorts of accusations. I came across this, somewhere in the middle of the pie-throwing:
The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
Petition challenging progressives and South Siders: a Republican tactic.
I know the Chicago Way is rough, but that crosses a line. This made my blood boil:



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