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...first glance Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri, 49, appears to be the very model of a modern civil servant. Indeed, he served 15 years with the parks and recreation department before getting elected to the city council in 1970. Slight (5 ft. 6 in.) and unobtrusive, he has the muzzy charm of a maitre d' and avoids controversies as if they were fatal diseases. As a Democrat in a city where his party has a 5-to-1 lead in registrations, Caliguiri (pronounced Cal-i-jeery) would be favored for reelection. But the diffident mayor is so popular that barring...
...major reason for Caliguiri's lock on his job is that he has presided over one of the few success stories among cities of the recession-plagued Northeast. Despite high unemployment in the steel industry, corporations have invested $1.5 billion in new office buildings, speeding Pittsburgh's transition from mill town to corporate center. Caliguiri is spending millions more to repair bridges, build water and sewer systems and upgrade housing in the city's older neighborhoods. Predicts the mayor: "Pittsburgh is going to be the first major city in the Northeast to see actual gains in population...
...politics were pitching, Caliguiri would be called sneaky fast. In 1977 maverick Mayor Peter Flaherty quit to take a job in the Carter Administration. As city council president, Caliguiri automatically became interim mayor; an Italian immigrant's son and home-town boy, he got his first city job, as he puts it, as "a grunt in the parks department." In return for six months in the municipal limelight, Caliguiri promised Democratic bosses that he wouldn't run for a full term. Or so they understood. Shortly after the primary, lifelong Party Regular Caliguiri turned uppity and declared himself...
...Caliguiri's style is to try for conciliation rather than confrontation. On his first day in office, he skipped an important Democratic rally to dine at the bluebloods' Duquesne Club with members of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. The conference, which included the heads of Gulf, U.S. Steel and other corporations, had been largely responsible for the "Renaissance" of the late '40s and '50s that rebuilt the downtown Golden Triangle. At that dinner, Caliguiri spoke about his desire to re-establish good relations between business and city hall...
...expected, Democrats kept most of the mayors' jobs in big cities, but in many cases party dissidents or independents bucked the regular organization and won. In Pittsburgh, Interim Mayor Richard Caliguiri, a Democrat who ran as an independent with support from the ethnic wards, beat Democratic candidate Thomas Foerster, a more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall...