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conducted himself during the campaign from before the primaries, after the primaries, up to the election. I really look forward to his making constructive contributions. I certainly will work with him to the extent that he wants me to.
You've already made reference to some of the opposition, Rangel, Dinkins, Paterson which, if I'm interpreting it right, you felt something of a paradox?
Yes, because Hilton had worked for them in the past. They're right in saying that he's independent. He has been independent. He refused to be a part of an establishment. He says what he thinks. But I didn't believe, and of course I'm probably not objective about it, that his independence would have justified their being so openly--they said he wasn't a team player which to a large extent, I guess, is true. That's a harsher way of saying that he is independent.
Isn't there a further paradox here because Hilton Clark, if this report is correct here, was a Democratic District leader in Harlem since 1979?
Right.
Isn't that in a sense being on a political team, or at least he was elected to be on the team?
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