Chicago 1990

The guy William was quite acquainted. After receiving a call from Song Ya personally, he immediately began to encourage the "Sheep" in the electoral district not to provide Alice Palmer with signatures, and to bring Aunt Susie with him. Publicly endorsed Michelle's husband platform.

Both are famous figures in South City. In fact, William and Alice Palmer have dealt with each other. Of course, the veteran politician Alice Palmer and his predecessor, Pastor Allison, have been in friendship for many years, and Michelle’s husband is a fledgling political amateur. There is no such burden. From this perspective, it is not surprising that William chose to stand by Michelle's husband.

At the same time, as a black female politician, most of Alice Palmer’s diehard supporters are also black aunts. The likes and dislikes of this group of people are greatly influenced by the church. She herself seems to be an active believer. William’s “abandonment” was given to Alice. Palmer made a heavy blow, whether in terms of the progress of collecting signatures, the momentum of the campaign, and even her personal confidence.Coupled with the extraordinary attraction of Michelle's husband to female voters, her basic market and fundraising have been severely lost.

But it is not enough. She is only short of a few hundred joint signatures. How can she give up lightly at this time? The United States has not done a good job in the voter qualification review, and there is a lot of room for operation.

Two days later, Alice Palmer announced that only the last two hundred signatures were left, and that she could successfully qualify for the primary election tomorrow. She also prepared a rally celebration for this.

What Song Ya didn’t know was that all this was in the calculations of the campaign team behind the Michelle couple. They were waiting for this moment. That night, the Illinois Election Commission authorized law enforcement officers to raided Alice Palmer’s Running for the headquarters, the reason is that there is evidence that she has cheated during the signature collection process.

It seemed that they got the handle as they wished. The next day, Alice Palmer’s celebration rally was transformed into a de-election press conference. The former state assembly senator choked with sobs and announced that the voter’s joint office had not met expectations. Participate in the primary election again.

The Illinois State Electoral Commission also abide by the political tacit agreement and did not trouble her anymore.

"There is no need to carry the moral burden, but the political skills are quite slippery. To some extent, the couple has also begun to run sick..."

Song Ya, who heard the news, smiled and commented on Sloan.

"You are very successful in pressing Alice Palmer to the limit, haven't you? Alicia?" Sloan took a sip of the wine with his big red lips, leaving a shallow lip mark on the glass.

"We? I'm not involved in Peter's affairs..."

Alicia is really not very interested in politics. She just came back from New York from working on the Inner City Broadcasting Company. "What is the next job APLUS? My law firm can help in your Barn Chemical case. ."

"The Barn Chemical case? Where? There is no such lawsuit yet, do you want me to be accused? Alicia." Song Yana interrupted with a joke.

"Ha, it's almost like that to some extent, I'm a lawyer." Alicia was jerked.

"Don't talk about these disappointments today. Enjoy the party, two beautiful ladies." Song Ya put his hands on his left and right, and gently stroked the waists of the two evening ladies, "Sorry, I will leave first. In a moment, thank you very much for coming to Alicia."

After Dan Burton accused himself in the hearing, it was temporarily inconvenient to communicate with politicians publicly, so this time Michel Ti did not ask herself to help her husband endorse the platform. He also abide by the rules not to cause them trouble. Today Apart from Alicia who came to the Highland Park party, they were basically employees from the Chicago music scene and their own businesses.

Don't foul the law. On the verge of being caught, Song Ya tacitly doesn't bother the politicians, and the politicians quietly help all kinds of things.A gratifying trend is that politicians are more active in taking care of him than before. For example, Gore sent warning before the hearing, and Underwood asked Doug to persuade Nancy Parr in the middle of the hearing. Trisha don’t embarrass yourself. Afterwards, the consul suppressed FBI Director Fries, and failed to provide the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee with files involving his own taint, and Peter Flock exerted influence on the Chicago prosecutors in the “home” and made those The report of the conservative white man fell silent...

In the year of the election, at the beginning of the year, when his generous pocketbook had not yet begun to spread, Song Ya felt that his relationship with politicians was in a very harmonious moment.

“It’s not easy to get old Barn. The country club he often goes to is too difficult to enter. It is all white and all male. There is a limit on the number of members. Only when someone hangs up or quits will the club board select a substitute from the applicants. Very old-school gameplay."

He left the two women because he saw the secret signal from Goodman from afar. While continuing his studies, he happened to deal with the hidden dangers inside and outside the base camp in Chicago. “He himself basically didn’t tell the club’s old friends about it. Past events," Goodman said, closing the study door.

"Are there any trusted messengers in that club?" Song Ya asked.

"The circle is very small, and the old men are basically in retirement. They play golf, remember the past, and take some time to manage low-risk investments... At present, I can ask. The closest one to our network is O'Grady’s uncle. A former executive of Northern Trust." Goodman replied.

"Sounds not bad? O'Grady can be trusted." O'Grady manages his own stock of hundreds of millions of dollars. "I can easily transfer the funds in his place. He dare not disadvantage me."

"His family affection is very weak, O'Grady told me that at least three years have not seen the face of that uncle." Goodman said.

"Hmm..." Song Ya thought about it. "Let O'Grady try it first. Has anyone else come? I will tell him personally."

"not yet."

The two were chatting, Sloan knocked on the door and came in, and Gordon arrived.

"APLUS."

After being repaired severely by himself, the director of A+CN was obviously a little confused. He entered the door and hung his coat on the coat hook and said uncomfortably: "I am not a gang character, your bodyguard can't treat me like that. ."

Song Ya looked at the old Mike outside the door and exchanged glances. He should have searched Gordon outside just now, not because he was afraid of bringing weapons, but was guarding against the recording device.

"In extraordinary times, Gordon was misunderstood, please sit down. Ms. Sloan, please sit down too."

In its business, Gordon is currently the most unstable factor, even if he is now in a cage, "A+CN is okay recently?" Song Ya asked.

"We did not watch, and we were not full of 24-hour programs, so we had to buy some old news documentaries to play, because the migration time was advanced!"

Gordon was not stupid enough to mention the Barn Chemical case and Charlotte’s murder of the black man who made the boss an enemy. He concentrated on complaining: "Our new office is not ready. Everyone has to squeeze on the floor. In the building, that is to satisfy all the anchors and staff who broadcast continuously for 24 hours! After leaving Comcast’s free channel, the social attention of our program has dropped significantly, and the morale of the staff is very low. Someone has already told me I submitted my resignation."

"Sounds really a mess?" Song Ya sneered and secretly admired each other's distress, deserved it!Dare to disobey me!

"If it weren't for you to let Comcast advance..."

"Uh, Mr. Gordon, shall we stop discussing this matter? We both agreed outside just now." Sloan interrupted his complaint.

"What should I do now?" Gordon lay down on the sofa, "I need an extra money to rent a studio to stabilize the hearts of A+CN employees."

"The money will be transferred to A+CN's account at the scheduled time." Goodman said.

"What about this period of time?" Gordon asked: "A+CN is about to fall apart. Don't think I am alarmist. The ratings were not as expected. It just so happened that we were at the critical moment when MJ's divorce incident was soaring. M-Fxxk was migrated to Channel 88 with few subscribers in advance by Comcast! I completely missed the opportunity to comeback! We must know that many employees of A+CN are rushing to our first African-American 24-hour serious news station The great prospects of the media are willing to join since their salary reduction. After seeing no hope, those media elites have retreated one after another..."

"Gordon, if you want me to say that this is all caused by your mistakes, maybe you should apologize to APLUS first." Sloan interrupted again.

Gordon sat and shook his head again and again. The arrogant top African media man persisted for a few minutes and finally convinced him, "I can apologize, I'm sorry Mr. APLUS, I am a novice in management, I overestimate myself. But now I hope You can pay attention to the difficulties in front of A+CN..."

"It's really a pity to miss the news about MJ's divorce incident, but it's too late to regret it. Everything will be fine when the channel promotion fee of 10 million yuan arrives, I promise."

This guy is still not convinced. Song Ya and Sloan exchanged glances with Goodman, "But before that, you have to survive Gordon on your own. I think this will help you deepen your memory..." Imitate what Jesse Helms' cronies said to Sloan.

"You burned your money for nothing, just to teach me a lesson?"

Gordon was indeed dissatisfied. "Many of the Charlotte law enforcement units are the KKK with Jesse Helms! All I do is a just cause! You are betraying the ethnicity! Bow to the ultra-conservative white people, really disappointing!"

"Damn it! Gordon! Stop challenging my patience. If, I mean, if you hurt me again, get out of my business! I don't mind burning another penalty, you know Who am I!"

Song Ya's patience is gone, and she yells at him, "You must formally promise me that you will not do this again, otherwise... I have prepared the wife of the governor outside to fire your legal documents. You can call a lawyer. Today, in this house, we will finish the matter! I have no patience to please an executive who will burn me 20 million dollars in vain. Your job failed Gordon! You! Do you know that News Corp. only gave him a budget for inviting Roger Ayres to organize FOX’s 24-hour cable news station? Millions, only a few million dollars! So their studio had to be rented on the subway line Beside, every time a train passes by, the recording of the show will be interrupted! That's FOX, which is much richer than me! Don’t let me be in this place. You will not be blessed in the blessing! After betraying BET, I will be my A +CN goes out, do you want to maintain your status as a top African media person? Don't dream!"

After the roar, Gordon sank on the sofa with a gloomy face and said nothing, and the study fell into a dead silence.

"Gordon, you must make this guarantee today." Ms. Sloan poured Gordon a glass of wine, "APLUS was just an angry word from a young man. Everyone liked you very much."

"I understand, I promise..." Gordon threw his neck up bitterly and killed him, "I promise I won't do anything out of the ordinary... I promise, I'm sorry APLUS, and I apologize to you again."