Word: non-partisan
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...damage is doubly severe since from now on Cleveland's mayoral elections will be non-partisan. The top two vote-getters in the primary will face each other in November, precluding the election of a Mayor by 39 per cent of the vote. Regaining control of City Hall can only be accomplished by the formation of a new majority coalition, and one can only hope that this coalition can be constructed in time to prevent Cleveland's problems from reaching an incurable level
...Hicks ran for and won ex-Speaker John McCormack's old seat in Congress. By last year White's popularity had slipped so badly that when he challenged Republican Francis Sargent for the governorship, he did not even manage to carry Boston. Before last month's non-partisan primary, White was already being counted out. But he placed a surprising first in the field of seven. The early oddsmakers may have seriously underestimated his power to make a comeback for reelection...
...city is building a new police station. A contractor who gave $10,000 to the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley gets to do the building. There is no competitive bidding. That's machine corruption...
Today, many of the old critics of the Chicago machine are members of the Non-Partisan Committee to Re-Elect Mayor Daley. They argue that somehow, Mayor Daley manages to govern a big city, which is a lot more than flashy reformers like John Lindsay seem to be doing. They also cite the many achievements of the Daley administration and all the buildings he's erected. When he won re-election earlier this month, editorial writers all over the country sighed and spent a lot of ink marveling at his ability to rally popular support...
...goes beyond this, however, by explaining why so many suburbanites and Republicans join the Non-Partisan Daley Committee. Daley is good for business. When he was first elected, he went on a building spree downtown...