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- <text id=91TT2557>
- <title>
- Nov. 18, 1991: Election Notes:Houston
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 18, 1991 California:The Endangered Dream
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 24
- ELECTION NOTES
- Houston Ousts A Five-Term Incumbent
- </hdr><body>
- <p> She calmly guided Houston through the oil bust and cleaned
- up the police force and reformed city government. But last week
- voters unceremoniously ejected Mayor Kathy Whitmire from office
- after 10 years. Land developer Bob Lanier and state
- representative Sylvester Turner placed first and second,
- respectively; they will meet in a runoff next month.
- </p>
- <p> Residents were unwilling to support Whitmire's grandiose
- proposal to build a $1 billion monorail system, and worried
- about street crime. Caught off balance by two strong opponents,
- she was unable to respond in a forceful and convincing manner.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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