Time: Thu Sep 11 18:47:27 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA15020; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:44:40 -0700 (MST) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA06632; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:43:36 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 18:43:25 -0700 To: SErtelt@aol.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Runoff for NYC mayorial primary (fwd) What we need is a Mayor of New York City, who has enough guts to call a press conference, and urge all city employees to rescind their W-4 Employee Withholding Allowance Certificates, because the IRS has now been proven to be a money laundry domiciled in Puerto Rico. Now, I would vote for someone like that! You betcha!! /s/ Paul Mitchell http://supremelaw.com copy: Supreme Law School At 09:21 PM 9/11/97 -0400, you wrote: > NEW YORK (AP) - Tapping voter outrage over the alleged police >torture of a Haitian immigrant, activist Al Sharpton turned New >York's Democratic mayoral primary on end by forcing a runoff >against the favorite, Ruth Messinger. > The winner of the Sept. 23 runoff, the first in a New York >mayoral race in 20 years, will face the popular Republican >incumbent, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, in the Nov. 4 general election. > It was the lone surprise among several mayoral primaries across >the country Tuesday. Incumbents advanced easily in Minneapolis, >Detroit, St. Paul, Minn., and Toledo, Ohio. > The New York campaign had been listless until Election Day. > An outspoken fixture in city politics, Sharpton did not raise >enough money to air television commercials and was considered an >underdog to the better-bankrolled Messinger. > But he used last month's beating and sodomizing of Abner Louima >- allegedly by Brooklyn policemen - as a rallying cry against City >Hall and a police force he contends practices law and order by >brutality. > Today, however, Sharpton bristled at the suggestion that he owed >his success to the Louima case. > ``When the Louima thing happened, people said it doesn't mean >anything,'' Sharpton said. ``Now they want to put it (the primary >results) on the Louima thing. ... Maybe I brought out my vote and >others couldn't.'' > Messinger, the Manhattan Borough president, needed 40 percent of >the vote to avoid a runoff but finished with 39 percent. She is >still considered a favorite in the runoff. > Speaking to reporters today, Messinger acknowledged that >Sharpton had been ``an eloquent spokesman for issues he cares about >passionately ... His words and the support for his candidacy should >be a clear message to the mayor.'' > Sharpton, whose support comes primarily from the city's black >community, was second with 32 percent. Only 15 percent of the >city's 2.6 million Democrats went to the polls. > The winner of the runoff will be an underdog to Giuliani, whose >first term has seen a dramatic drop in crime and welfare rolls and >an economic boom. Giuliani, who was unopposed in the GOP primary, >also has a substantial campaign war chest. > In other primaries: > Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer received 82 percent of the vote in >the nonpartisan primary. State Rep. Ed Vaughn was a distant second >(16 percent) in Michigan's largest city, where an incumbent mayor >has not lost a re-election bid since 1961. > Archer has been credited with a number of development projects >in his first term, including two planned stadiums and three >jobs-rich casinos slated for downtown. > Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton, a first-term Democrat, >and GOP-endorsed independent Barbara Carlson easily advanced with >51 percent and 35 percent of the vote, respectively. > Sayles Belton said her leadership is behind a drop in violent >crime in the state's largest city over the past year. Carlson, an >outspoken talk radio host and the former wife of Gov. Arne Carlson, >supports a public vote before $10 million is spent on a new >Minnesota Twins ballpark. > St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman and Minnesota Sen. Sandy Pappas >advanced in a seven-candidate, nonpartisan primary. The Republican >incumbent won 55 percent of the vote and Pappas 42 percent. > Coleman was expected to tout city renewal and his resistance to >raising property taxes. Spicing up the race is his defection last >December from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the state's >version of the Democratic Party. > Pappas, a diehard member of the DFL, has implied that Coleman >will run for governor next year even if he is re-elected. She is >trying to become the city's first female mayor. > In Toledo, incumbent Democrat Carty Finkbeiner and Republican >businessman Nick Wichowski advanced to the general election. The >mayor finished with 47 percent of the vote, Wichowski 27 percent. > Finkbeiner has touted his push for economic development and >drops in city crime and unemployment. Wichowski has said the mayor >is spending too much when the city should be saving for an economic >downturn. > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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