Word: mayorship
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PENNSYLVANIA'S political scene is strange. This year's big elections for the Senate seat and also for the mayorship of Philadelphia were marked by death. In Philadelphia, Frank Rizzo, the Republican candidate was in much the same position as Thornburgh. He was an ex-mayor (although he was a Democrat back then). He was running on a traditional Republican platform (with an added tinge of racism that had nothing to do with Thornburgh). And his past had more than a twinge of corruption (Thornburgh had his association with another former Attorney General, Edwin Meese III, who retired amid scandal...
Flynn's conversion of the mayorship from a disreputable office to an honest one, indeed, is what political consultant Michael Goldman sees as Flynn's strongest contribution to Boston during his first term...
...Cambridge the mayorship is a part-time post, but the city manager is a professional executive. The city council picks the manager, and the charter forbids it from choosing anyone who has served in any elective office in the county in the past two years...
...student is Laurence S. DiCara '71, who has long been active in Boston politics. Most recently he was youth campaign manager in Christopher Ianella's unsuccessful try for Boston's mayorship...
...Tammany Hall and all the low associations that go with it. Those who charge this forget that sixteen Tammany district leaders, including those associated with Frank Costello, broke with Wagner to support Impelliteri for mayor. Wagner owes them nothing. It is also said that Wagner wants to use the mayorship not for the welfare of New York but as a stepping stone to his late father's seat in the United States Senate. Those who claim this forget that the mayor is so controversial and unthanked a figure as to be in a political graveyard: in the last thirty years...