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...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...
...Koch, 56, New York mayor, debating over which Democratic candidate he will support in 1984 for the presidency: "If I support Ted Kennedy, there would be cruises, jet-set parties and long, lazy summers at Hyannis Port. If I were to support Fritz Mondale, there would be winter in Minnesota. It's a tough choice...
Take New York City. The already swarming Rikers Island "correctional facility," 99 per cent full to capacity a year ago, is now crowded more than 10 per cent above its formal limits. Yet Mayor Edward Koch continues to blast "soft judges" who refuse to lock up all offenders. Meanwhile, Koch, who will romp to re-election this year, has cut back the budgets of the few departments designed to ease inmates back into society--Probation, Parole, and Mental Health. Sadly, Americans everywhere--obsessed by only political issues of the self, like interest rates--have taken no notice of the horror...