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The two opposing mayoral candidates both have had the position of mayor, both with highly marred terms. First, let’s revisit the Shirley Dean administration which started off with Mrs. Dean not giving up her job with the largest employer in the town (UC Berkeley) while mayor. Can you say conflict of interest? One might say that Shirley Dean is the Dick Cheney of Berkeley. Even Dick Cheney quit Halliburton before taking the vice president’s job after awarding most of the post-war contracts to his former employer. It got worse when Mrs. Dean decided to go after our favorite city councilmember...

* Berkeley man is dealing with fines, drug charges, while collecting signatures in effort to oust mayor BERKELEY -- There's so much going on in Zachary Runningwolf's life, it's hard to know where to begin. First, he's trying to recall Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates -- a man who trounced Runningwolf in last year's election. Bates collected 62.9 percent of the vote and was elected to a second term with the largest margin of any mayor in Berkeley in 40 years. Bates previously served more than 20 years in the state Legislature. Runningwolf, who in 1999 served a stint on the...