"He's become a very weak mayor, " said Rahaman Muhammad, president of the Newark labor union, SEIU Local 617, a former supporter who is now an outspoken critic.
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The runoff will be a race between the man who became the city's first black mayor, and a man vying to become its first Latino mayor.
He claims he will take 30% of the vote, enough to become mayor, in a left-wing city where only 19% voted PP in 2008.
Liberal Democrat candidate Susan Kramer said the public, once enthusiastic for a mayor, had now become cynical and the contest had the potential to make London into a laughing stock.
Juliana has since become a Labour councillor in Sunderland, even becoming the city's mayor in 2003, and admits that she only entered politics because of the impact of Margaret Thatcher.
The islanders' fear, said their mayor, Bernardino De Rubeis, is that Lampedusa could become a Mediterranean Alcatraz.
"We all recognize that water has become more and more of a precious commodity, " said Tom Barrett, mayor of Milwaukee.
His top challengers are councilmen Chris Bell, (D), a former Brown supporter, and Orlando Sanchez (R), a Cuban immigrant who is hoping to become the city's first Hispanic mayor.
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At a press conference with NYRR CEO Mary Wittenberg, deputy mayor Howard Wolfson acknowledged that the controversy over the marathon had become a distraction, and played a role in its cancellation.
For Ms. Quinn, the Democratic frontrunner in this year's race for mayor, anger over her stance on the sick-pay legislation has become a flashpoint on the campaign trail.
"I am also grateful to Geoff Gollop for agreeing to become my deputy mayor, and who will therefore take over should I carelessly go under a First Bus, " he added.
But with Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-unaffiliated Mayor Michael Bloomberg facing a term limit this year, the GOP field has become more crowded since Allon began eying the mayoralty in 2011.
Carey Hoffman, a spokesman for the mayor, equally blandly explains that Mr Herenton's aims will become clearer as the election draws closer.
He was a former mayor of New York City who was actually, in 2008, was trying to become president of Florida, but no, he didn't make it that far.
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Incumbency is normally a huge advantage in an election, but it's become an albatross, as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can ruefully attest after nearly losing his reelection bid to an incompetent, underfinanced and largely unknown opponent.
There were a lot of people that said, 'Oh, you're taking too long, '" the mayor said, but he called the results "a remarkable achievement, one that we expect will become a textbook case of innovation, resourceful and effective response to an unprecedented natural disaster.
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