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Pollitt, Katha | December 3, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on news related to mayor elections in New York City. Billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected by a narrow 30,000 votes. In retrospect, it seems, nothing was more obvious than that politician Mark Green would slide to humiliating defeat from a double-digit lead a mere two weeks before Election Day. Suddenly, it turned out to matter that Bloomberg, who refused to participate in the campaign finance system, spent a rumored $60 million of his own immense fortune on the race, although his free spending on everything from advertisements and mailings to hats and high-placed academics was widely mocked.

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MAYORS; ELECTIONS; MUNICIPAL government; POLITICAL campaigns; BLOOMBERG, Michael R.; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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