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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, April 13, 1975
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW The five Republicans can be
expected to vote in a bloc
Wheeler wins ocrats retained control in the against any vaguely liberal leg-
First and Second Wards. islation, as previous GOP coun-
t THROUGH WISPY clouds of Also three proposed City Char- cil minorities have done.
stale cigarette smoke, an ter amendments which would In comparing Monday's vote
aging man with salt and pep- have imposed city-wide rent totals to those from the last
per hair peered at a few pieces controls, instituted door-to-door mayoral election two years ago,
of paper covered by columns of voter registration, and forced HRP's lack of support this time
hastily scrawled numbers - the municipal funding of non-profit around emerges as the most
way it looked from those fig- child care centers tumbled to compelling statistic. The radi-
ures he had no choice. The defeat by wide margins. .HRP cal third party faltered badly
game was over and he had ap- backed all three proposals and in the First and Second .Wards,
parently lost, initiated those pertaining to rent where it had previously done
By late election night, last control and day care. well.
Monday, Albert Wheeler had With the loss of the mayors In the Second Ward, for in-
grown pessimistic, under esti- seat, however, the Republicans stance, HRP dipped to 27 per
mating his strength against in- relinquish their majority. What cent of the vote as compared to
cumbent Mayor James Stephen- is left is a council with no sin- 41 per cent in 1973. That drop
son in the battle they had gle party in control, but the po- is particularly significant be-
waged for the past two months. tential for a liberal - radical co- cause it comes in a student-
Although not yet official, it alition. dominated section of the city
appears Wheeler eked out vic- If the five Democrats can which HRP has, consistently
tory over the conservative Ste- forge an alliance with solo HRP claimed as a stronghold.
phenson with just over a hun- Councilmember Kathy Koza- Likewise, the HRP candidate
dred votes to spare. Thus he chenko, the traditional policies in the First Ward finished dead
becomes Ann Arbor's first black instituted by the Republicans last garnering some 600 votes
mayor in the one of the most during the past two years could less than last year. City wide
confusing and protracted elec- quickly be replaced with more totals for mayor also reflect
tions ever held here. progressive measures geared this trend.
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The preferential voting sys-
tem, used locally for the first
time last Monday, caused the
delays with its complicatedk
counting procedures. Without
preferential voting, however,
Wheeler could have lost miser-
ably to Stephenson.
Under the system, everybody
was allowed to vote for first and
second choices in the mayor's
race. Because none of the can-
didates won a clear-cut major-
ity, those people who voted for
last place Human Rights Party
candidate Carol Ernst had their'
second choice ballots counted-
most of which went to Wheeler.
When the Republicans learned
that Stephenson had been de-
feated and that the GOP would
therefore lose control of City
Council, they screamed foul and'
unveiled a lawsuit challenging!
the legality of preferential vot-!
ing.
In the council races them-
selves no seats changed hands.
Republicans copped the conser-
vative Third and Fifth Wards,
and the Fourth Ward - consid-
ered a "swing" district. Dem-
toward social services rather Ernst received about 11 per
than fire and police protection cent of the vote, a full five per
and garbage collection. cent less than Benita Kaimo-
But the watch-word for the witz, her 1973 counterpart on
new council is "maybe." Maybe the HRP ticket. Virtually all
a lot of reform will take place, those votes went to Wheeler last
though nothing is for sure. Nev- Aytho t
er a fire-brand, Wheeler just Although the total turnout this
may not push controversial year was slightly lower than
items like rent control hard. In two years ago, distribution of
their previous service, Demo- the votes among the three par-
cratic Councilmembers Carol ties in the Third and Fifth
Jones (D-Second Ward), Colleen Wards was almost identical. In
McGee (D-First Ward), and ths crucialtFourth Ward, HRP
James Kenworthy (D-Fourth lost ground, although the spread
Ward) have not proven to be between the Dems and Republi-
particularly innovative or de- cans was about the same.
cisive. The Republicans demonstrat-
ed a very constant strength in
Similarly Kozachenko is not the First and Second Wards.
a political heavyweight. She This adds up to a shift in sup-
lacks deep understanding of port from the HRP to the Demo-
municipal operations and the crats in the liberal - radical
ability to wheel and deal ef- sections of the city and spells
fectively with the other parties' trouble for the third party in
representatives. future electitns. It's too early
Thus newly - elected Council-ftwrte-off Itsaoterb
women Elizabeth Taylor (D- to write-off HRP aleogther, but
womn Eizbet Tylo (- if the party is shut out in next
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