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...going to endorse anybody just yet,” said Greg Ballard, mayor-elect in Indianapolis, Ind. “As a newly elected mayor, it’s not like I have a lot of power. Nobody knew me six months ago,” he said jokingly. Newberry agreed that mayors should not focus on national issues at first. “I think mayors, more than any other elected officials in the country, have an opportunity to change the quality of life in their communities,” he said. “At first, you wind...
...calls security to find out if the building needs to be evacuated. But Villaraigosa, 52, once described by a fellow Democrat as having as much energy as "a hummingbird in flight," is busy taking another call, that one from Frank McCourt, the owner of the Dodgers, who congratulates the mayor-elect and reminds him that there are seats set aside for any game he chooses to attend...
...limelight won't be of any help to Villaraigosa as he goes about running the nation's second biggest city, however. He inherits an education system that graduates only 45% of its students from high school, festering gang violence and the worst traffic in the nation. Critics say the mayor-elect is short on substance--"an empty suit," in the words of Joel Kotkin of the nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected...
...Wednesday morning, mayor-elect Bloomberg took to the streets to thank his supporters and joined Fernando Ferrer for breakfast in the Bronx. Obviously exhausted by Tuesday's late-night dramatics, Bloomberg was nonetheless in a voluble mood. On his way to another post-election meeting, the businessman stopped to remind reporters of a campaign promise he intends to keep: He will accept only $1 of the mayor's annual $195,000 salary...
...find myself unable to make the treatment decision yet," Giuliani confessed Friday. After he grapples with that, he will have to figure out how to deliver on his vow to extend the good times to all the communities of New York City. In his very first appearance as mayor-elect, in 1993, Giuliani went to Harlem and asked the people there "to give me a chance to show in deeds rather than words my commitment to this community." His deeds failed him. Now he has one final chance to make good on that promise, and he seems to believe that...