Mr. DINKINS: What I hope we did was to observe us and to avoid our mistakes.
Koch lost the Democratic nomination for mayor in 1989 to David Dinkins, who succeeded him.
We would like to know more about him so we called former New York Mayor David Dinkins.
Mayor David Dinkins. (Applause.) Governor David Paterson is here. (Applause.) State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
Back in 1993, Mr Dinkins, whose campaign had focussed overwhelmingly on race, won 95% of the black vote.
In 1993, the final year of the Democratic administration of Mayor David Dinkins, the police killed 23 people.
Mr. Koch lost a 1989 bid for the Democratic mayoral nomination to Mr. Dinkins, the city's first black mayor.
In 1989, he lost a bid for a fourth term to David Dinkins, who became the city's first black mayor.
That was in the executive order originally done by Ed Koch, continued by David Dinkins and then done by me.
While registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans in New York, no Democrat has won the mayoral election since David Dinkins in 1989.
New York City ousted Mayor Dinkins in favor of Republican Rudy Giuliani.
Privately, Mr Giuliani's people worry whether the new mayor is tough enough, and think too many of his team come from the Dinkins era.
Mr. DINKINS: Well first off, when he accepted the post of lieutenant governor the margin was not then one vote, it was slightly largely.
New York City also elected its first black mayor, David Dinkins.
After losing his bid for a fourth term in 1989, Mr Koch wrote a letter giving advice to the man who beat him, Mr. Dinkins.
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Mr. DINKINS: Well you're right I've known him his entire life.
Koch lost the 1989 Democratic primary election to Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who would go on to win election as New York's first black mayor.
Both sides claimed victory after the debate, inundating the press room with supporters like Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson, former New York City mayor David Dinkins and entertainer Whoopie Goldberg.
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Though sustained by the recurring onscreen presence of the journalist Wayne Barrett, its first hour of scattershot criticisms from such motivated rivals as David Dinkins and Ron Kuby plays like attack-ad overkill.
Mr. DINKINS: No, no, I think he faces a challenge because being governor of New York is one hell of a job, and he's got about three weeks to settle a budget.
Rudy Giuliani, who in 1996 signed an agreement that resulted in the eventual closure of Fresh Kills, defeated Mr. Dinkins 1993 and was re-elected in 1997 in large part because of his popularity on Staten Island.
Anger over Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where the city's trash was shipped until 2001, contributed to the unpopularity of Mayor David Dinkins in the borough and its efforts to secede from New York City in the mid-1990s.
"The politics of being mayor at a time when racial polarization was taking place put him in a very unpopular position, " said Rep. Charles Rangel, the long-serving Harlem Democrat who backed Mr. Koch in 1977 but supported Mr. Dinkins in 1989.
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The actors join a long list of prominent people -- including former Mayor David Dinkins and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume -- arrested for acts of civil disobedience intended to protest the February 4 killing of Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea.
Still, he makes the case that they are vastly better than John Lindsay and Abe Beame, mayors who presided over the city's decline, as well as David Dinkins, who dithered at the helm for a term between Mr Koch and Mr Giuliani.
Mr. DINKINS: Well, I know Geraldine Ferraro, and I'm confident that she's not a racist, and I don't think she intended to make a racist comment, whether one agrees or not that Obama has done so well because he's black or not.
After being appointed as the director of the mayor's Commission on Latino Concerns in 1986, deLeon went on to serve in other civic roles, including being selected by then-Mayor David Dinkins in 1990 to head the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
"If you write the text you're totally controlling the message, and Gov. Cuomo has been particularly cognizant of controlling the message and controlling the flow of information, " said Douglas Muzzio, a public affairs professor at Baruch College and one-time campaign aide to former New York City Mayor David Dinkins.
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