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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.

Q:

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?

Clark:

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.

Q:

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?

Clark:

Right.

Q:

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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