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Da Coach" met "Da Candidate" Wednesday night, and he treated Alan Keyes to a meal at his Gold Coast steakhouse while they talked about politics and their families.
Former Bears coach Mike Ditka, who himself had turned down the chance to run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican, used the occasion to put his seal of approval on Keyes, who moved here from Maryland to take on Democrat Barack Obama after Jack Ryan dropped out of the race.
"I support him because he's a conservative and on the right side of issues I already believe in," Ditka said of Keyes as he left his namesake restaurant, trademark cigar clenched between his teeth. "We're very close philosophically about what we believe, about politics and issues."
Asked if he agreed with Keyes' position on federal tax breaks for African Americans as a form of reparations, and Keyes' idea that people should be allowed to have machine guns as long as they are properly trained, the coach said: "I'm pretty much in tune with everything he does.
"I'm going to work my ass off for him; I'm going to raise some money."
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