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Mayor Bloomberg is wasting no time in exploiting the indictments of New York politicians yesterday to revive his scheme for what he likes to call “non-partisan” elections. His honor would have us believe that the problem is not the crooks but the party system. Yet it is the party system that allows people to aggregate their money to enter the political fray. It handed up such New Yorkers as, say, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Fiorello LaGuardia, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, and Edward Koch.
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