Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the first primaries barely a year away, Carter has already begun mobilizing for the 1980 election. Democratic Party Treasurer Evan Dobelle, a former Republican mayor who changed parties to back Carter, is the leading candidate to head the President's re-election committee. Jordan, Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss and Atlanta Attorney Charles Kirbo will likely become the brain trust that plots broad strategy, while Dobelle manages daily campaign chores...
...meeting in a Northern city that is heavily black and Democratic. Mississippi G.O.P. Committeeman Clarke Reed commented sarcastically that he was the only white Mississippian ever to visit Detroit, "and I don't want to be the only white man from Mississippi who has been to Detroit twice." Mayor To less Coleman biased Young, who Southern is black, Republicans, tartly Young replied, said, "He can save his railroad fare." To less biased Souther Republicans, Young said, "You all come up here...
Detroit residents celebrated last week as wildly as when Michigan beats Ohio State. But the city's leaders were not content with just landing the Republican Convention. Declared Mayor Young: "We're not through yet. Now we'll convince the Democrats to bring their 1980 convention here too." That will take some even fancier selling. The Democratic National Committee, which will make its choice this summer, listens to Jimmy Carter, and the President is said to be whistling Dixie these days...
Still and all, assistant mayor Bernie Flynn said he wasn't worried the move signalled the beginning of a corporate pilgrimage out of the city. "They're not leaving Cambridge because they didn't like it," Flynn said. "It was strictly a business decision," he added...
Flynn said his campaign included federal funds for East Cambridge development, and for impending development in the Alewife area. "We think we've got 3500 jobs right there," Flynn said. "The mayor isn't worried about the long term trend...