Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone goes into the race trying to ID as many #1 votes as they can," says incumbent Councilor Jonathan S. Myers, who has been running "an intense door to door campaign" in order to identify votes...
...Perhaps we should offer you a vodka," city councilor Raymond Chapin quips to a reporter. In the next breath he grows serious, recalling how, when he first joined the party two decades ago, it sent its members to visit the Soviet Union, "telling us it was a workers' paradise. Today," he acknowledges, "that would make people laugh." Outside city hall, activist Gerard Kourland is selling L'Humanite, the party organ, and patiently explaining the difference between the Russian and French parties: "We officially gave up on the dictatorship of the proletariat in 1976. And even before then...
...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...
...Americans woke up the next morning to find the homeless still outside their doors, the addicts still shooting each other, their schools firing teachers for lack of funds? "People want to have their money back -- for their neighborhoods, for their streets, for their kids, for themselves," says Boston city councilor David Scondras...
...Councilor James O'Brien said, "If anything, Mr. Mahoney has stood up so well under the examination that he's gone through that I'm sure that he will be a credit to the judiciary. The weight of the evidence strongly supports Paul Mahoney...