We at The Chicago Daily Observer are pleased to announce that Don Rose will be one of our regular columnists—and with this offering begins a series on all the presidential candidates, Democratic and Republican. Don and I have been political sparring partners and have never agreed on a single political thing—but as a veteran liberal who started as press secretary to the Chicago campaign of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. As an analyst and strategist, his views are exceedingly valuable…at least to this Editor. As an independent political consultant he has advised Mayors Jane Byrne (during her upset of Michael Bilandic) and Harold Washington, U. S. Sen. Paul Simon, Supreme Court Justice Seymour Simon, Gov. Jim Edgar, former Cook county states attorney Bernard Carey and a good number of public officials including U. S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun during her early career as state representative. He has been an on-air commentator for WLS-TV (ABC), hosted a weekly talk show for 22 years on WPNT-FM, was editor of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices, organized for the National Mobilization Committee to End the War, was political director of the National Committee to Draft Mario Cuomo for President and is founding member of Chicagoans Against the War in Iraq. –Thomas F. Roeser, chairman, editorial board, The Chicago Daily Observer.