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Many citizens of Los Angeles felt as strongly last week that a Perot clone had arrived in city hall. Immediately after conservative millionaire Riordan won his first election by defeating liberal city councilman Michael Woo 54% to 46%, he was already displaying a get-under-the-hood-and fix-it itchiness. He flew to Sacramento to start hammering state politicians for help in reducing the city's budget deficit, which may reach $500 million this year. He declared he would solve problems by using "simple management techniques," and he did not apologize for pouring $6 million of his own money...
During the campaign, Woo made much of Riordan's former membership in a restricted Los Angeles country club, his slashing of jobs at companies he downsized, and three alcohol-related arrests in his distant past. Riordan defenders, however, point to his proved compassion. "The millions of dollars he's contributed to schools and the poor over the years could not have been a calculation," admitted state senator Art Torres, a Woo ally. "Dick Riordan has heart." Los Angeles has to hope it's a big one. The fractured city, whose citizens still grimace at the recollection of that videotaped beating...
...after it was shaken by riots, Los Angeles got its first Republican mayor since 1961. Richard Riordan, a rich businessman who financed his campaign largely out of his own pocket, won 54% of the vote -- in a city where George Bush won only 22% -- to defeat city councilman Michael Woo, a liberal Democrat endorsed by Clinton. Riordan will succeed five-term Mayor Tom Bradley, who was elected by a bi-racial coalition that Woo had hoped would carry him to office as well. Riordan's base is among white voters attracted by his promise to make L.A. safe and thus...
...highways and other pork projects served as common currency. As many as 15 lawmakers from peanut-producing states switched when the White House agreed to curb the flow of imported Chinese peanut butter -- at a steep cost to American consumers. Clinton promised to toughen his policy toward Haiti to woo several black lawmakers. One telephone conversation between a Cabinet officer and an undecided lawmaker went like this: "Congressman, I'm sitting here chewing my fingers and wondering what else we can do to win this vote. I know you've talked to the President, and he wanted me to remind...
...back in it), he starts mastering the other instruments of power as well. Budget reform, an improved day-care program, a bold new jobs program, even the banishment of corruption -- all these he achieves by the simple assertion of guileless right thinking. He even manages to woo Mrs. Mitchell (Sigourney Weaver) out of the separate bedroom and angry silence into which her real husband has forced her to retreat...