To chart a new course for Bridgeport, he needs to be willing to tread on the toes of Democratic party leaders who sponsored his candidacy.
The link was provided by the Amalgamated Engineering Union (now part of Unite), which sponsored his parliamentary candidacy.
In 1992, both Powell and Cheney sponsored McConnell's candidacy to become the head of the N.S.A., even though McConnell had been promoted to a one-star admiral only nine months earlier.
The election was also a victory for Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, the pro-Russia billionaire who sponsored Mr. Margvelashvili's candidacy.
Last year, she sponsored Mr. Jenkins's candidacy for a spot on the Civil Court bench, winning the support of the borough's Democratic organization, though he was not ruled qualified by the Bar Association of the City of New York.
In the Democratic primary, Berrios won the nomination with a sizable margin over Jeffrey Paul Smith, an assistant corporation counsel with the City of Chicago whose candidacy was sponsored by Quinn, by then a former Commissioner.
His candidacy is being sponsored by the Jury Team, the political reform party established in the wake of the MPs' expenses scandal.
Certainly, a sponsored press and a confusing archipelago of government-linked quasi-opposition candidacies are reminiscent of the PRI in its heyday.
The first time was last fall, when Mr. Colbert undertook a semi-serious candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president and said that he was "sponsored" by the Doritos snack chips sold by Frito-Lay.
Despite Mr. Lazio's efforts to tamp down speculation about the possibility of his candidacy, such talk was very much in the open here this weekend at a meeting sponsored by the Lincoln Club of Northern California, an organization of moderate Republicans.
