Illinois Democratic Primary Voters Don’t Want Nobody Nobody Sent |
The question is of course a legendary one in Illinois, first made famous by being asked to a young Abner Mikva (later a judge and a representative) when he sought to break into Chicago Democratic politics in 1948. Mikva -- then an anonymous law student at the University of Chicago -- walked into a local party office seeking to do gruntwork in statewide Democratic campaigns, and was told off after informing the committeeman that he was a volunteer: “We don’t want nobody nobody sent.” (The phrase went on to become the title of a famous early oral history ...