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- Ä┐ NATION, Page 46Election NotesDISTRICT OF COLUMBIABye-Bye, Barry
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- She waved a broom and promised to clean up the bespattered
- administration of Washington's Mayor Marion Barry, convicted of
- possessing cocaine. And if housekeeping seemed somewhat foreign
- to the stiffly formal lawyer and former electric-utility
- executive, Sharon Pratt Dixon wasted no time carrying out her
- pledge. On the day after she decisively won the mayoralty of the
- U.S. capital, she called for the resignation of 177 of her
- predecessor's top city appointees.
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- In the heavily Democratic district, Dixon, 46, had no
- difficulty in trouncing former police chief Maurice Turner, 55, a
- Barry appointee who turned Republican only last year after being
- urged to do so by President Bush -- he of the short coattails.
- Dixon, long a prominent party leader and former national
- committeewoman, inherits a city ravaged by crime with a budget
- deficit that may run as high as $200 million.
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- The D.C. election also swept Barry out of public life. The
- disgraced mayor, who is appealing his conviction and six-month
- jail term, finished a distant third in the race for an at-large
- council seat.
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- Meanwhile, Jesse Jackson won his first elective office by
- becoming the district's "shadow" Senator, providing him with a
- high-profile platform from which to launch another presidential
- run. The unsalaried job, which carries no voting privileges,
- will be used to lobby for statehood. Civil rights activist and
- law professor Eleanor Holmes Norton won the Delegate seat to the
- House, also a nonvoting post.
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