Word: koch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Mayor Ed Koch, for one, does not care to hear excuses for the violence of the young. "You name one societal reason," he said, "that would cause people to engage in a wolf-pack operation, looking for victims." Throughout the week sociologists obliged, proffering familiar theories about why many delinquents of this generation do not content themselves with stealing hubcaps and breaking windows. The experts argue that too many families are broken, too many schools and communities are crumbling, too many drugs are available for children to acquire a sturdy sense of mercy or morality to guide their behavior...
...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...
...believed that Koch could easily defeat a Black candidate in a citywide primary, whereas a white liberal with Black support could beat Koch. But Blacks in New York have said over and over again that they want a Black candidate...
...Blacks don't like Koch, isn't it more important that Blacks mobilize and get behind a candidate that can beat Koch? What's the use of having a Black candidate just to have one? Koch will probably still be the mayor, and all that Blacks will show for it is a Black candidate that lost...
...friend suggested to me that Koch was race-baiting when he said Jews "would be crazy to vote for Jackson." While Koch's statement probably didn't help racial tensions in New York, it was an accurate statement...