"This is not a game and it's not a local problem," said Valery Koval, 42, the liberal mayor appointed by Mr. Yeltsin in 1993 to run this city of 300,000 people.

The narrator notes that that the incumbent liberal mayor had just released twice-convicted attempted murderer Sideshow Bob.

By 1945, labor unions and ethnics had taken over local politics and liberal mayors enjoyed black as well as white support.

After a liberal mayor ruled for 35 consecutive years (1865-80), a conservative mayor ruled for another 36 years (1880-1916).

It had only been a few years before that a liberal mayor the city's press had loved had left office and soon after one of the city's major elevated highways had fallen down.

Mr. Lindsay, the liberal Republican mayor, lost the 1969 Republican mayoral primary and switched to the Democratic Party in 1972.

From 1990 to 1996, Kudrin worked in the Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg City Administration under the liberal mayor and reformer Anatoly Sobchak.

Rocky Anderson may not be the most liberal mayor in America.

Conservatives on the side of law and order will abandon you and your liberal mayor in a heartbeat.