Word: mayor
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Consider the Mayor's first dilemma: he can undoubtedly use his prestige and influence to move the meager poverty funds still available into any of a number of directions. But funds are very limited--and has no way to get resources on the scale needed...
Scarce resources on the one hand and competing claims on the other set the terms of the Mayor's dilemma...
Moreover, there are militants and pseudo-militants and moderates and private ghetto businessmen and gangs and a hundred would-be leaders -- each of whom has a political stake in a Mayor's decision...
...Mayor probably senses, no real solution of a city's problems comes out of this haphazard approach...
...fact, Mayor White, after his politically costly rejection of the United Front, is probably beginning to understand that the conventional approach is also bad politics. Its particular hazard is that when the Mayor chooses any one group and rejects the competing others, he makes one friend and a dozen enemies...