He ran in Chicago's mayoral race and for the U. S. presidency.
It was the most expensive mayoral campaign in U. S. history.
While members of their communities fought, argued and even died for their beliefs the town council added arms to the mayoral chair.
Furthermore, policies to improve water services were proposed by every candidate in the mayoral race in 1996.
There was a concomitant development of a sense of town history, conveyed through pageants, local chronicles and compilations of records and mayoral portraits.
There are two reasons for excluding mayoral candidates from the econometric test.
In subsequent work, we extend this analysis to incorporate mayoral addresses and city council minutes; the additional data substantiate this claim.