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230 Mayors to Sign Tucson 'Civility Pact'

Mayors aim to take lead in bringing civility back to politics

(Newser) - More than 230 mayors are meeting in Washington this week and they plan to sign a "civility accord" thought up by Tucson's mayor after the shootings in his city. Mayor Robert Walkup aims to have mayors take the lead in restoring civility to politics. His accord urges mayors to...

Chicago Election Board: Rahm Can Run for Mayor

But Emanuel's legal battle could drag on for weeks

(Newser) - Rahm Emanuel won a big battle in his bid to be Chicago's mayor today, as the city's election commissioners voted to keep him on the February 22nd ballot, the Chicago Tribune reports. Some of Emanuel's opponents tried to make the case he's not a legal resident—given that he'd been...

Springfield Mayor Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

Tim Davlin led capital city of Illinois since 2003

(Newser) - The 53-year-old mayor of Springfield, Illinois, is dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot, reports the State Journal-Register . Police found the body of Tim Davlin at home this morning after responding to a 911 call. Authorities have yet to confirm the cause of death. Davlin, mayor of the state capital since...

Mexican Mayor Shot Dead at Desk

Clinton: Drug violence becoming an 'insurgency'

(Newser) - The mayor of a small Mexican town in an area being fought over by drug cartels was shot dead in his office yesterday. Four hooded gunmen stepped out of a truck at city hall in broad daylight and killed Alexander Garcia, CNN reports. Garcia is the third mayor to be...

Obama for Chicago Mayor!

 Obama for Chicago Mayor! 
OPINION
Sep 8, 2010 1:54 PM CDT

Obama for Chicago Mayor!

Forget president—here's a job he's much more suited to

(Newser) - Reihan Salam's career advice for Barack Obama: Give up the presidency and run for mayor of Chicago. No, wait, he's serious! Richard Daley's decision to retire has thrown the city into a tizzy, and who better to take over than a person who knows Chicago's neighborhoods, feels "passionately" about...

Kidnapped Mexican Mayor Found Dead
Kidnapped Mexican Mayor Found Dead
Aug 19, 2010 3:21 AM CDT

Kidnapped Mexican Mayor Found Dead

Monterrey-area mayor had been trying to stamp out corruption

(Newser) - The body of a small-town Mexican mayor was found along a roadside yesterday, two days after he had been kidnapped from his home. Edelmiro Cavazos Leal was handcuffed and blindfolded and police say there were signs of torture, CNN reports. The mayor of the Monterrey suburb of Santiago had been...

10 Failed Celeb Political Bids
 10 Failed Celeb Political Bids 
Aug 10, 2010 10:47 AM CDT

10 Failed Celeb Political Bids

Wyclef Jean will be in good company if he loses

(Newser) - Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti , but already things aren’t going well for the controversy-plagued singer. If he loses, he won’t be the first celebrity to suffer a failed political campaign: Time lists 10 others:
  • Norman Mailer: Despite being a literary giant, the Pulitzer Prize- and
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Canadian Mayor to City Council: Sober Up

Time to lay off the booze, Halifax councilors told

(Newser) - Some politicians' actions might lead you to speculate about their level of inebriation, but the mayor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is telling his city council members in no uncertain terms to sober up. Mayor Peter Kelly says he's been fielding complaints from members of the public and other council members...

Detroit Mayor, Already in Jail, Indicted Again

(Newser) - Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick can't catch a break. Currently serving at least 14 months in prison for parole violations stemming from a 2008 conviction of perjury, misconduct in office and obstruction of justice from the so-called Text Messaging Scandal, he's now been indicted by a grand jury on 19 counts...

Rahm Emanuel: Report I'm Quitting Is 'BS'

Chief of Staff planning to move family to DC

(Newser) - Rahm Emanuel is not happy about the report that he’s leaving the White House after the midterm elections. “This is BS. And if you need it for translation, it is baseless,” the White House chief of staff said in a statement today. Rumors have circulated that Emanuel...

Bloomberg Defends BP CEO

Hayward 'didn't exactly blow up the well,' NYC mayor says

(Newser) - BP CEO Tony Hayward is one of the least popular men in America right now, but he has at least one supporter: Mike Bloomberg, the New York Daily News reports. HIzzoner says critics should remember that "the guy that runs BP didn't exactly go down there and blow up...

Drug Cops Bust Cancun's Mayor

Gubernatorial candidate insists he's innocent

(Newser) - Mexico's drug war just got messier: Police have arrested Cancun's mayor for his alleged ties to organized crime. Gregorio Sánchez is a high-profile gubernatorial candidate whose arrest signals growing concern about the influence drug kingpins have on politicians, notes the Wall Street Journal . "Voters in Mexico are asking...

Rahm Emanuel: I Want to Be Chicago Mayor

White House Chief of Staff says he misses Illinois

(Newser) - Rahm Emanuel sounds like he wants out of the Obama administration—and Washington altogether. In an interview with Charlie Rose last night, Emanuel confirmed the rumor that he's considering running for mayor of Chicago in 2011. “I hope Mayor Daley seeks reelection. I will work and support him” if...

Tennessee Town Elects Dead Mayor

'If he were to run again next week I'd vote for him again'

(Newser) - Carl Geary's campaign to become mayor of Tracy City, Tennessee, wasn't derailed when he dropped dead of heart attack in the middle of it. Geary, a councilman known for his straight-talking style, beat his rival in the small town by a margin of over 3 to 1, the Telegraph reports....

Battered Detroit Plans to Raze 25% of City

Mayor sees shrinking city as way to close massive deficit

(Newser) - Battered Detroit wouldn’t have to struggle to pay for services in the vast areas of the city that are essentially abandoned if they didn’t exist—so it’s going to bulldoze them. Mayor Dave Bing did the calculus on a $300 million budget deficit and the 33,500...

Rudy Giuliani Won't Run for Senate

Ex-NYC mayor effectively ends political career

(Newser) - Ending months of speculation, Rudy Giuliani will announce tomorrow that he will not run for US Senate. The former New York City mayor plans to remain a presence on the national GOP scene, seizing "an opportunity to engage in targeted races across the country," says a source. He...

Atlanta May Need Recount to Settle Mayor's Race

Kasim Reed has a razor-thin lead, with provisional ballots pending

(Newser) - The Atlanta mayor's race remains too close to call. Kasim Reed led Mary Norwood by 758 votes out of 83,000 cast in yesterday's runoff election, a razor-thin margin of .92%. Only about 700 provisional ballots remain to be counted, but the race is so tight that Norwood isn't conceding....

Baltimore Mayor Guilty of Stealing Gift Cards

Sheila Dixon could be removed from office

(Newser) - Baltimore's mayor was convicted today on a single charge she took gift cards intended for the city's poor. Although Sheila Dixon was acquitted of felony theft charges, her misdemeanor conviction could force her from office. Jurors deliberated more than six days after hearing accusations the Democrat improperly used or kept...

Gay Vote May Settle Atlanta Mayoral Race

Norwood, Reed neck-and-neck ahead of today's vote

(Newser) - Mary Norwood will become Atlanta's first white mayor since the '70s if she defeats Kasim Reed in today's runoff election—but the contest hasn't been as racially charged as some expected. A fifth of black voters favor Norwood and roughly the same proportion of whites favor Reed. The city's large...

Mexican Mayor Trumpets Foe's Death—Before Body Found

Faces tough questions in drug lord's slaying

(Newser) - Monterrey-area mayor Mauricio Fernandez is facing some tough questions after announcing the death of his drug baron nemesis hours before the body was found and days before it was identified. "Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for my head, was found dead today in Mexico City,...

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