Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incumbent for a job or some other favor who vote in the primaries. This is especially true on a rainy day, and that June day it poured. Finally, the neighborhood was staunchly conservative and unlikely to view Lindsay-flavor Republicanism favorably. Therefore Lindsay workers carefully avoided mentioning the mayor; instead they asked voters to support "a dynamic ticket" which was committed to building a strong party...
Because of ideological differences collisions with the regulars was probably inevitable. Apart from the Manhattan party, the Republican organization in the City is definitely conservative. In the words William F. Buckley Jr., former Conservative party candidate for mayor, Lindsay's nomination was "a rump affair and no more representative of the body of Republican thought in New York than the Democratic Party in Mississippi is representative of the Democratic Party nationally". The Queens leader recently received the Americanism Award of the Catholic War Veterans of Queens Country for his record of anti-Communism. He claims that the Goldwater debacle...
There are several reasons why Lindsay is keeping his involvement in partisan politics a secret. It would be very embarrassing for the Mayor if there were an outright split in the party and the organization refused to endorse him in 1969. And this may happen if the organization decides that they stand to gain more patron age under a Democratic administration. Lindsay is convinced that he could win an overwhelming victory in a Republican primary even without the endorsement of the party bosses, and that the November election would become a mere formality. But a primary fight could very well...
...will be contesting six primaries in the Bronx this June. Fino's reaction has been violent. "It is a cool, calculated attempt to infiltrate every country organization", he said recently. Lindsay has denied this. "There is no such plan that I am aware of", Bob Sweet, the new deputy mayor, answered Fino. "On the other hand, we want to encourage as many good people as possible to become interested and active in the Republican party. I know that Fino and Archinal share that view", But Fino insists "there is nothing the mayor can do to make amends...
...Bronx primaries will therefore be a very decisive mile-stone in Lindsay's career. If the Lindsay-oriented candidates succeed, the mayor will have proved that he can build a Republican party almost from scratch, fundamentally altering the political structure of the City. Lindsay will have succeded where LaGuardia failed, by breaking the Democrats' long and onchallenged hold on New York...