Posted on 05/18/2010 1:32:42 PM PDT by AnotherDayInParadise
What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?
Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961.
Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1954.
Cincinnati , OH (3rd) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1984.
Cleveland , OH (4th) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1989.
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But you can make an entire ruling class of Marxist redistributionists feel good. < / sarcasm >
Run by poverty pimps.
Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor.
St. Louis , MO (6th) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor
since 1949.
El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor.
Heh, heh...I don’t why I find this amusing, but I do. One not since 1949 and two NEVER?
Voinovich, Cleveland’s last non-dem mayor, wasn’t much of a Republican. Still isn’t.
St. Louis had a run of Republican mayors in the 1920s and again in the 1940s. All German. I guess when that voting bloc dried up in did in the GOP.
This taxpayer money has been wasted and stolen by corrupt politicians.
New York has a long history of electing "Republican" Mayors (Puroy Mitchell, LaGuardia, Lindsay, Giuliani, post-Dem, pre-Independent Bloomberg), but usually to "reform" the corrupt practices of their Democratic predecessors. None of these men were conservative in our sense of the term, but then again, this is New York.
Bloomberg was a dem running as GOP, period.
Yep. Ditto Steve Levy, the likely GOP candidate for Governor in November.
The party just doesn’t exist in NY anymore.
That’s not actually true.
Houston had two Republican mayors after the Republican Party started its move towards conservatism in 1964 and probably would still be electing them if it hadn’t become two-thirds minority.
Look at the demographics and it will become apparent. All of these cities have suffered from major flight to the suburbs.
And the quote from Lincoln is kind of pointless because Lincoln himself was the founder of American liberalism and was one of Obama’s biggest influences.
Houston has never had a GOP Mayor in the modern era, so I don’t know which people you think were, Azalea. Every Mayor from Louis Welch in 1964 to Annise Parker in 2010 have been Democrats. I think you’re confusing Houston with Dallas.
Miami has had GOP Mayors, and its current Mayor (and the Mayor of Miami-Dade County) are Republican.
The source I’m looking at has Louie Welch and Jim McConn listed as Republicans.
Which source is that ? If Welch had been a Republican, it would’ve been noted . The only historic breakthrough at the time of his election was a single Republican winning on the City Council for the first time (presumably since Reconstruction, if even then). All sources I saw said McConn (who was Mayor at the time some of my family lived in the Houston area) was a Democrat. Houston is rather notorious for never having elected a GOP Mayor in the modern era. Even El Paso doesn’t have that bad a track record.
Throughout most of Texas history, Texas has been a one party state with Conservative Democrats ruling. (Yes, there once were real Conservative Democrats). Both Welch and McConn were Conservatives, albeit Dims. Neither could be elected in Houston today because of demographic changes.
Except for some “Silk Stocking” areas such as River Oaks and Tanglewood, Whites have basically bailed out and minorities now control the politics of the city. (Along with the Queers who have moved here in droves. Houston now competes with New Orleans to see which city is the “real” Homo Mecca of the South.
Isn’t Austin a “homo mecca” contender?
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