Famous Mayor Under Fire in Virginia
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Former supporters of Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder say he is trying to run the city single-handedly, firing department heads, upbraiding public officials and starting secret investigations.
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Mayor Richard M. Daley will be on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor if voters Tuesday give him a sixth term despite a City Hall corruption scandal.
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A few weeks ago, San Jose Councilman Forrest Williams was outraged when his fellow members started talking about censuring colleague Terry Gregory because he allegedly took freebies from developers.
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By Christina Nuckols, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 23--RICHMOND -- Gov. Timothy M.
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Baseball supporters sang. A DC Council member waved a bat in glee. The mayor and council chairman appeared together after weeks of feuding.
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Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."
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NEW YORK Sept. 1, 2004 - Vice President Dick Cheney unleashed a stinging attack on Sen. John Kerry Wednesday night, ridiculing him as a politician who has made a career out of changing his mind.
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Sol Stern, New York Cityâs cantankerous provocateur against liberal education policies, is relishing the controversy surrounding his recent reversal on the school voucher issue.
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone faced mounting pressure to apologize for allegedly comparing a Jewish reporter to a concentration camp guard.
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Mayor Frank Melton came into office like a Wild West marshal sworn to clean up the town. But somewhere along the line, prosecutors say, the crimefighting mayor crossed over from lawman to vigilante.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  May 26--The local legislators who this week assaulted local businessman Dan Moore's reappointment to the Coastal Carolina University board of trustees claim to be staunch defenders of ethics.
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RICHMOND, Sept. 21 -- A Republican state legislator from Fairfax County has launched an attack ad on cable TV against his Democratic opponent that features unidentified, unverified quotes from a blog.
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While this weekend&#39;s Major League Baseball meetings in Anaheim, Calif., will probably be dominated by talk of steroids and big player moves, Las Vegas&#39; mayor hopes to grab some attention Saturday
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virginia beach  House candidate won't take law job  Bobby Mathieson, a Democrat running for the state House of Delegates, has decided against taking a controversial job with the city's revenue commissioner.
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It would be impossible, in a short letter, to counter every argument made in your newspaper over the past few days lambasting Mayor Rocky Anderson. The short response is that Mayor Anderson is beholden to the constituents who elected him.
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After months of political attacks, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jim Davis is admitting he made a mistake when he voted in the state Legislature to deny compensation for two black men convicted, and later cleared, in the killings of two white men.
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London mayor Ken Livingstone came under fire on Friday over the cost of his efforts to rid Trafalgar Square of pigeons by using hawks.