Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stealth Mayor" Bradley keeps a low enough profile not to be associated with the city's problems. Unlike New York City's Mayor Ed Koch, who blurts out insults to someone nearly every day, the resolutely dull Bradley has said hardly anything memorable in almost 16 years in office. But the mayor is no accident in California politics. Like most public officials in this trend- making state, Bradley is part of a wave of certifiably boring, aggressively bland politicians. How else to account for Governor George Deukmejian, Senators Pete Wilson and Alan Cranston and others too unrecognizable to mention...
...sheer confusion. In a metropolis where as many as 85 languages are spoken, that extends from the perfumed hills of the Westside to the barrios of East L.A. and the ghetto of Watts, where state, county and regional authorities overlap one another, voters hardly know who's in charge. Bradley and the business community, his biggest supporter, seem to like it that...
...about two-thirds of that bankroll comes from Los Angeles. "Stars, though, don't want to slum with the locals," says Brownstein. "They are at the pinnacle of their profession and want to deal at the highest levels. ((Disney CEO)) Michael Eisner wants to raise money for Bill Bradley, not some city supervisor...
...politics can become only so boring before it ceases to exist at all. Last week Los Angeles held an election and almost no one came -- only 23% of the voters turned out. Bradley does not need charisma to attract money; the bankers and developers in Los Angeles have wallets as fat as Michael J. Fox's. But politicians do need to inspire people, or at least keep them awake, if they are to lead as well...
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