Word: koch
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...sooner had Ed Koch announced that he was going to run for Governor of New York than Playboy magazine hit the stands with an interview as sizzling as any centerfold. The attraction: the New York mayor holding forth on everything from Black Leader Jesse Jackson ("bad news"), his own alleged racism ("b.s."), to cracks about all life outside his city. "Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's wasting your life ... Rural America? This is a joke...
Conducted back in December, the interview instantly reminded people of Jimmy Carter's infamous "adultery in my heart" Playboy quote in 1976. But Koch's comments may well cause greater political embarrassment. "Anyone who suggests I run for Governor," he confided to Playboy, "is no friend of mine. It's a terrible position, and besides, it requires living in Albany, which is small-town life at its worst." Upstate Republicans, who regard Koch as the strongest Democratic candidate, were delighted by his loose talk. Koch was asked if he would like to buy up all copies...
...York City's Democratic Mayor Ed Koch termed the Reagan plan "a con job, a snare and a delusion, a steal by the Feds," adding, "I don't think he understands the impact of what he is doing." New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey contended that the New Federalism is really "a new feudalism," which will pit states against each other and cities against their state capitals as all struggle anew for a fair share of dwindling federal funds or jockey to protect their own economic interests. In the same vein, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown...
...Ghetto residents felt that their presence on trains deterred muggers; transit police thought the red-bereted youths were a nuisance and dismissed Sliwa as a self-promoting vigilante. After a "memorandum of understanding," which assured police cooperation with the Angels, was worked out with New York City Mayor Ed Koch, Sliwa intensified a nationwide recruiting campaign. Today the Angels claim to have 2,200 members and 1,800 more in training in 41 U.S. cities, including Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Miami and Los Angeles...
Only in the older big cities did voters behave predictably, sweeping well-established incumbents back into office on promises of fiscal toughness and economic revitalization. New York Mayor Ed Koch won a second term virtually unopposed (he was endorsed by both the Democratic and Republican parties) despite some heavy criticism for insensitivity to minorities. Boasted Koch grandly: "I am mayor of all the people." Coleman Young of Detroit, elected the city's first black mayor in 1973, marched to a landslide third-term victory over a virtually unknown opponent; the winner offered only equivocal support for a defeated measure...