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...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...
Speaking in the subdued language favored by the voters of 1977, Koch promised little more than a New York version of blood, sweat and tears. Koch emphasized the need for further budget cutting and restraint on the once insatiable municipal unions. He reminded voters that even in bygone days when it was less fashionable, he had favored capital punishment for certain heinous crimes. To offset his loner image, he was usually accompanied during the campaign by Bess Myerson, 53, a former Miss America (1945) and a New York City commissioner of consumer affairs...
Gradually Koch won the support of much of the business community and the endorsement of two of the city's three major dailies. He defeated New York Secretary of State Mario Cuomo, running as the Liberal Party candidate, 50% to 42% (the Republican candidate got only 4%). Another big New York winner was Carol Bellamy, 35, an obscure but personable and articulate state senator who received 82% of the vote for city council president; she is an attractive political comer...
...Koch is not going to enjoy much of a honeymoon period. New York's budget problems continue to grow, and last week underwriters turned down the city's long-anticipated sale of short-term notes after the offering had been given the lowest possible rating by Moody's Investors Service. Koch also faces negotiations with the ornery Transport Workers Union, his first encounter with city unions that have warned their wage demands can no longer be deferred...
...three of last week's big election winners-Ed Koch, Brendan Byrne and Carol Bellamy-got together with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, New York Governor Hugh Carey and Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, they could form a little association. Its name: the Davey Garth Fan Club. All those potent pols are, or have been, the clients of David Garth, the nation's most sought-after campaign strategist. His record this year: five winners among six clients. Garth's secret? Says the hard-working consultant: "There are ad agency guys more creative than I and professional pols more...