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- NATION, Page 24ELECTION NOTESSalt Lake City Breaks Several Barriers
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- Bucking its Mormon, conservative traditions last week, Salt
- Lake City made Deedee Corradini, a Lebanese-born Presbyterian,
- its first woman mayor. Corradini, who had never held office
- before, scored a 55% to 45% victory over Republican Dave Buhler,
- director of Utah's Department of Commerce. Gender was never an
- issue in the campaign, where crime and pocketbook concerns
- prevailed. And Corradini worked so hard to keep the race
- nonpartisan that when state Republicans held their convention
- a few months ago, she set up a booth among them to attract
- support. The mayor-elect's female supporters couldn't help
- crowing a bit. Says Bonnie Miller, a Republican who crossed
- party lines to vote for Corradini: "The women of Salt Lake City
- feel a foot taller today."
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