
Dem mayoral candidates now stressing law and order over BLM, 'defund the police,' report says
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In big-city mayoral elections, attracting enough votes to win apparently matters.
"Mayors aren’t stupid, and they understand if taxpaying residents of their city start leaving, as they did in the 1970s, the whole city is endangered," Ned Hill, an Ohio State professor who studies city politics, told the newspaper. "Mayors aren’t stupid, and they understand if taxpaying residents of their city start leaving, as they did in the 1970s, the whole city is endangered." "Mayoral candidates are being compelled to respond to realities on the ground."
Debates on addressing lawlessness are also taking place in cities without competitive elections, the report said.
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