But the mayor's debt-laden budget is eaten up by his bloated workforce and his time is spent running from one court hearing to the other.
When city lawyers evicted the Casino's proprietor, Walker appointed the hotel businessman Sidney Solomon, to whom the mayor owed a debt since Mr. Solomon had introduced Walker to his personal tailor.
He was raising money to pay off the mayor's campaign debt and calling Anglo engineers he knew, many of whom belonged to the trade group that had supported Mr. Brown's opponent.
The town is now about $13 million in debt, Mayor Perry said -- $8 million for a new elementary school and about $5 million for improvements to the municipal airport, which Tooele County recently took over because Wendover could not afford the payments.
He took high-risk action to bring the current fragile peace to Northern Ireland, created legislatures there and in Wales and Scotland, established London's first elected mayor, paid back debt, passed a minimum wage, started a new work program for unemployed youth, and began reforming the House of Lords.
Under mayor Robin Wales, the debt-ridden Newham council cut funding for the hostel and tried to move those in need of social housing out of the borough and into private rented accommodation elsewhere in the UK, even though there were empty blocks of flats boarded up on the nearby Carpenters estate in Stratford, east London.
He plans to tell mayors to skip debt payments, stop layoffs, cease home evictions and ignore central government demands for budget cuts, a message that infuriates Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government as it tries to convince investors in Spanish bonds that he can fix the battered economy.
An article last Friday about a fund-raiser to retire the campaign debt of Mayor Edwin M. Lee of San Francisco incorrectly stated the status of Fiona Ma in the California state assembly.
To bring this round robin of muddy math full circle, both Mr. Franks and Mr. Schundler have piggybacked on state Republican claims that Mr. McGreevey, the Democrat who awaits in the November election, sharply raised both property taxes and debt as mayor of Woodbridge after taking office in 1992.
The Republican poll found voters were much less likely to support Mr. McGreevey after being told that he had increased municipal debt as mayor of Woodbridge, that he had voted for Mr. Florio's tax increases when he was an assemblyman, and that he had cast the deciding vote for the $2.8 billion tax increase.
Here is why McAllen has $250 million in the bank and no general obligation debt," boasts Mayor Richard Cortez, who estimates Mexicans contributed a third of that nest egg and half of the $11 billion in Valley bank deposits.
