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...Kennedy School of Government announces that Jane Byrne, former mayor of Chicago, and Frank Rizzo, former mayor of Philadelphia, will join other experienced politicos as K-School fellows. The news pales, though, beside a vague rumors that another invitation from the K-School has been extended to former Secretary of the Interior James Watt. Upwards of 2000 students demonstrate outside the K-School to protest such an appointment, chanting. "Ho,ho,hi,hi. Watt is not our kind...
...Republican opponent, John Egan Jr., appealed to racial antagonisms of the kind that besmirched Chicago's mayoral election. It is encouraging that the Democratic machine in the City of Brotherly Love, unlike its counterpart in Chicago, did not stint in its support for a black nominee. Even Frank Rizzo, the bilious ex-mayor who was beaten by Goode in the primary, campaigned for him. However, the vote still cut unmistakably along racial lines. Goode received the support of 98% of blacks. And though he picked up a quarter of the white vote, a comparable white candidate surely would have...
Goode's lack of pizazz may seem old hat to citizens accustomed to the business-like but uninspiring administration of retiring Mayor William J. Green and much preferable to the blustering machismo of ex-Mayor Frank Rizzo. Indeed, Goode squashed Rizzo's attempt at a flamboyant comeback in the May Democratic primary by a healthy 9-point margin...
Goode's base is the city's 39% black electorate. But he also got 23% of the white vote in the primary, despite Rizzo's attempts to link Goode to the hot rhetoric of Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. In fact, Goode pointedly did not invite Jackson to appear on his behalf then and has not since...
After the May primary, Rizzo came around and endorsed Goode. Last week Egan suggested that Goode had "cut a deal" with Rizzo, allegedly promising a high-level post at Philadelphia's gas company in exchange for Rizzo's endorsement. Egan later lamely admitted his sole source was a rumor he had heard "on the street...