Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics and supporters alike of 1-2-3 said that the unusually high voter turnout that hurled Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf to the top of the City Council preliminary vote count would probably ensure the referendum's failure...
...Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf scored a landslide victory in the City Council election Tuesday, garnering more first-place votes than any candidate since 1975 and leading the vanguard of what appears to be a decisive victory for the city's liberal forces...
...YORK--At a victory party for New York City's first-ever Black mayor, the politics of tradition mingled with the spirit of changing times...
With what some are calling the city's highest-ever turnout of Black voters, Mayor-elect David N. Dinkins accepted his win to the cheers of a uniquely diverse audience--racially and ethnically. Tailoring a speech to their likes proved difficult, however, as Dinkins struggled between the rhetoric of his grassroots following and the party establishment...
...laced his speech with references to traditional Democratic Party powerhouses, tying his ground-breaking campaign firmly to the Democratic establishment. He thanked New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and current Mayor Edward I. Koch--three men he said helped greatly in the campaign...