Susan Weiner

Susan Weiner

Susan Weiner is a politician from Georgia, USA and was the first woman to become Mayor of Savannah. She is a Republican.

Background

She is Jewish, was born in Albany, New York and moved to Savannah in the mid-1980's.

Political career

Weiner ran for Mayor of Savannah in 1991. She won the Republican nomination without opposition and defeated five-term incumbent and Democratic nominee John Rousakis with 54% of the vote. [Savannah Morning News, November 6, 1991]

She conducted a law and order campaign in which she promised to address local crime issues. She also advocated "privatizing some city services, such as sanitation, garbage collection, road maintenance and recreational facility maintenance." [Savannah Morning News, July 17, 1991]

Under her tenure, six council members were Democrats; only two were Republicans. Eventually, Weiner abandoned most proposals from her platform.

In 1995, she was narrowly defeated by Councilor Floyd Adams, Jr., a Democrat and an African-American.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.ci.savannah.ga.us/cityweb/webdatabase.nsf/E12F5A82DA01561685256AB6006C3E62/3F6DC97D79C23C2D85256AB7004832F7 Mayor's official site]


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