Byline: Fred LeBrun
Election eve, 1989.
Running for mayor of Albany.
How can you lose when you don't have an opponent? Actually, you can, and Tom Whalen has very nearly engineered himself into a race when there wasn't one. In the 11th hour, he's having second thoughts - and we're seeing an about-face.
Without a decent voter turnout, city school board candidates endorsed by the organization, along with reasonably obscure county-office seekers, are subject to the vagaries of small margins and, in the case of the latter, a potential swamping from the Republican 'burbs.
Getting the vote out, getting the Democratic ward leaders to beat …
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