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...most famous test on a municipal scale comesfrom New York City, which implemented the systemon a borough-by-borough basis...
...American racial and ethnic groups on the way up, gaining control of city hall is confirmation of emerging political clout. So it was a triumphal moment last week when Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins defeated three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch to win the Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City. Since Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1, Dinkins became an instant choice to prevail over the Republican challenger, former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, and become the first black chief executive of the nation's largest city...
Back in Brooklyn, Lee is at home. When he was honored last month by the Black Filmmaker Foundation, Lee pledged allegiance to his home borough and teasingly swore never to join Hollywood's "black pack," whose members include Eddie Murphy and director Robert Townsend. Lee's next picture, the story of a jazz musician who must balance his career and love life, will also be shot in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Hollywood holds little allure for the man who rides around on a twelve-speed Peugeot bicycle (he doesn't have a driver's license) and considers a relaxing evening "going...
Wielding considerably more authority than the city council, the board votes on the budget and controls such matters as zoning, municipal contracts, and water and sewer rates. Three elected officials (the mayor, comptroller and city-council president) and the president of each of the city's five boroughs sit on the panel. But the boroughs have widely varying populations. The member representing Staten Island's 377,600 residents has the same voting power as the one representing the 2,309,600 people of Brooklyn, the most populous borough...
...ethics problems. Few incumbents lay awake nights worrying about the unemployment line; 88% triumphed with at least 60% of the vote, the classic definition of a safe district. The traditional levers of incumbency, augmented by the largesse of political-action committees, have created this modern version of a rotten-borough system. In the four House elections since 1980, a total of 1,740 seats were at stake, yet only about 30 sitting Congressmen were defeated for reasons other than redistricting and ethics. Old-fashioned democratic reasons, that is, like having a strong opponent or taking stands unpopular with the voters...