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A Republican mayor and a Democratic Queens borough president promised yesterday to work together for the good of the borough.
This time, the Republican mayor was Michael Bloomberg, not Rudolph Giuliani. The Democrat was Helen Marshall, not Claire Shulman.
Queens has done well in the competition for budget dollars and City Hall attention in recent years, particularly during the past eight years of Giuliani and Shulman.
Bloomberg administered the oath of office to Marshall yesterday and promised that nothing would change - except, of course, those nasty budget cuts the new mayor is demanding of his office and other elected officials.
"If Helen and I, working together, can do as much for Queens as Claire Shulman has done working with Mayors Giuliani, Dinkins and Koch over the last 16 years, Queens and all New York will be well served. You are truly a role model for all of us," Bloomberg said of Shulman.
The new mayor praised the new borough president for "having the instincts for this job ... I pledge here and now I will do everything I can to help you be a success."
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