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...media image into one of the country's most powerful political weapons. Wisecracking, noisy and energetic, Koch has not merely run the city but has also written two memoirs about its often byzantine politics, with himself as the hero. Cramming his days with television appointments and public ceremonies, the three-term mayor had a standard greeting: "How'm I doin'?" Until recently the answer was usually...
...about campaign money when they get up in the morning, they think about it all day, and they think about it at night," says San Francisco Assemblyman Art Agnos. Last week a California congresswoman was accused of thinking about it too much. A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted three-term Representative Bobbi Fiedler for allegedly offering to help State Senator Ed Davis retire a $100,000 campaign debt if he dropped out of a nine-way primary race for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate. Fiedler called the charge "ridiculous...
...East Cambridge, 70-year old urban populist Alfred E. Vellucci faces a tough run for the roses against a few of his Independent neighbors, City Councilor Alfred W. LaRosa and Francis Budryk. Vellucci, a three-term mayor who has held a city council seat since 1956, has been targeted by rent control opponents for his support of CCA social issues...
...Something happened after World War I--a whole lot of good programs disappeared which created a relationship between the city and the universities," the former three-term mayor said about the days when Cambridge high school graduates were admitted to MIT free of charge...
...years ago, Dornan, a three-term Congressman who had just lost a race for the Senate, was supposedly in line for an Administration appointment as a consultant to the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. From the floor of Congress, Downey gave a short, sarcastic encomium to Dornan's qualifications for the post. "Mr. Speaker," he began, "rarely have we seen an intellect like Bob's." Dornan never got the post...