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Democrat ran cities were much better in the Clinton era and below. After Obama the dems are unrecognizable to me. They've lost me. I'd much rather live in a red area because they at least keep law and order and people aren't ****ting and shooting dope openly on the streets, at least the repubs don't let that happen, no where the same as the dems do.
Even with 12 years of Democratic rule, it's had a Republican mayor for the last 7. Omaha had 4 other Republican mayors before Jean Stothert came along. While Omaha has had Democratic mayors, it isn't like it's some Democratic bastion..
And Omaha was incorporated as a city in 1854. If you look at its history of mayors, the majority of them have been democrats.
But even under Republican mayors things were not all that rosy. My point is that political party doesn't matter that much.
I agree with you there.
I was addressing your comment that Omaha was a republican city, which it is not. Nebraska is a republic state. Omaha has historically leaned democratic. But it’s pretty much a 50/50 mixed bag today.
The Phoenix valley is actually one of the reddest metros in the country.
Your obviously not from here.
City of Phoenix, Democrat run and controlled. Thank goodness for sane Republicans in the rest of the valley. If it were not for Phoenix we would have one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Democrats, cant help but to screw up their cities.
Yep, Kate Gallegos, her and her congressman husband Ruben "Lefty" Gallegos, come tramping in town from the East coast and Chicago, and try to pass themselves off as Arizonans East coast and corrupt Chicago Leftists screwing Arizona, what's new
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Omaha has other problems too. Omaha had riots during the 1960s and early 1970s. It had a riot in 1919 where thousands of Whites ransancked a Black neighborhood. Racial tensions have been a major part of Omaha's history. North Omaha has alot of street gangs and that is where most of the violent crime in Omaha takes place. Nebraska, as a state, has one of the highest Black homicide rates in America. A Republican city in a Republican state.
I spoke to soon when I said Omaha just had a broken window.
Omaha is as bad as Minneapolis now it seems based on the news video.
They had issues Friday night but Saturday night was complete and utter chaos in Omaha based on what the news channels there.
Things really escalated in Omaha Saturday night, massive chaos.
Many downtown buildings damaged in Omaha.
There was also a volley of gunshots crowded with protestors and the ABC affiliate KETV video shows medics doing CPR.
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