11.   Gantt, the former Democratic mayor of Charlotte, is trying to become the first black Southern senator since Reconstruction.

12.   He anticipates organizing Democratic mayors into a force to counter the Republican edge in governors.

13.   In New Jersey, freshman Republican Bill Martini lost to William Pascrell, the Democratic mayor of Paterson.

14.   In so doing, the two former Democratic mayors are taking sides in what is probably going to be one of the most contested races of the year.

15.   Its Democratic mayor, John Norquist, is about to be reelected for a fourth term.

16.   Janet L. Van Tassel, executive director of the Legal Assistance Resource Center of Connecticut, recalled asking Democratic mayors to testify against welfare cuts and getting no volunteers.

17.   Koch, a three-term Democratic mayor known for the occasional Republican dalliance, is not alone.

18.   Last Thursday at the State House, health care workers, doctors and several Democratic mayors attacked BeneCard and other PBM companies.

19.   McKeon denied that Democratic mayors or legislators had endorsed Pataki last fall in return for promises of government largess after the election.

20.   Most recently, he endorsed an opponent of the Democratic mayor of Denver, Wellington Webb.