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...black presidential candidate, with Jackson, 41, at the top of the ticket. His speeches were interrupted by chants of "Run, Jesse, run." Delegates sported buttons with Jackson's face and the I AM SOMEBODY tag line he coined and made famous. "If not now, when?" demanded Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., in a luncheon address. "If not Jesse Jackson...
...reluctant to run," Jackson says. "But I'm convinced somebody ought to go." Critical to the decision, which he says he will make in September: the congealing of his "rainbow coalition" of blacks, Hispanics, women, peace activists and environmentalists. But with an exploratory committee, headed by Mayor Hatcher, established and a "draft" committee of black ministers set to deliver a million-signature petition to Jackson by late August, his hat is already sailing toward the ring. Says New York Congressman Charles Rangel: "He's a Baptist minister, and Baptist ministers get callings...
...city mayors offer an intriguing contrast in styles, ranging from the consensus-building approach of Los Angeles' Tom Bradley to the confrontational politics of Gary's Hatcher. Their backgrounds are equally diverse. Washington practiced law and worked his way up in the Chicago political organization. Others, including Atlanta's Andrew Young and Washington's Marion Barry, came up through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. A pinstripe moderate as mayor, Barry was once a militant who favored colorful African dashikis and strident rhetoric about expelling the "honkies" from the city...
...with the herculean task of reviving decaying urban centers with shrinking tax bases resulting from the "white flight" of residents and the decline of traditional businesses. "Progress," says Gibson, "is maintaining the status quo." Moreover, black mayors often attract limelight that leaves them less margin for unnoticed error. Grouses Hatcher: "Blacks still don't have the right to fail as whites do without its becoming a slur on the black race...
...Even Hatcher, who feuded with Gary's business community for three terms, has been trying to mend fences. He recently signed a tax abatement bill to spur investment in plants, land and equipment, and has unproved relations with U.S. Steel, which has announced that Gary will become the center of its steel operation. "I could be elected as many times as I want without the support of the business community, but I can't govern effectively without that support," Hatcher says...