David Dinkins, first "black" mayor of NYC dead at 93. I voted for him twice before moving out west in the nineties. I voted against a seemingly corrupt Ed Koch running for a fourth term as mayor in the Democratic primary and voted for Dinkins, a known factor as Borough President of Manhattan. I then voted in the general election against the rather cold and green to politics, Republican Rudy Giuliani, a federal prosecutor for southern New York state. Fellow republicans in the office, peers, ate up all his coded "Conservative" rhetoric. As it turned out the two work peers who praised Rudy so much did not bother to vote on election day which is one reason Dinkins won and Rudy lost. As it turned out from day one, Dinkins was the Black Mayor of Manhattan it seemed to me and not the Mayor of NYC. He was out of his depth IMO and could not break out of either the Black or the Manhattan tags of his politics - get his head out of the premier borough and into the other four boroughs that make up New York City. I was turned off after I voted for Dinkins almost immediately when he won, I was turned off when someone like Jesse Jackson was on stage when Dinkins won that election night - and turned off by Jackson's "We Won" announcement. Who was "we" mister self appointed pol from Chi-Town? So, it was not surprising that I heard that Rudy won as mayor four years later as an alternate choice of the "We Won - First Black Mayor of Manhattan David Dinkins". An aside story of Rudy in the campaign in 1989 below.
https://newyorkandstuff.blogspot.com/2019/02/rudolph-giuliani-republican-mannequin.html
