41.   Goldsmith, who joins a crew of city employees on a job once a week, has also won over union leaders by consulting with workers.

42.   Gay partners of city employees have recognized claims to share in their health, retirement and other benefits.

43.   He also is skeptical that privatization can save money, because many city employees already are paid less than private-sector workers.

44.   He can also ask his friends Badillo and Harding to have their firm refrain from contacting any city employee on behalf of a client.

45.   Groups of city employees have been dialing long lists of telephone numbers in the neighborhoods of people who had been infected with cyclospora.

46.   He has called for a hiring freeze on all city employees except for teachers, the police and firefighters.

47.   Hate-mail and phone threats come courtesy of a disgruntled city employee, Brown says.

48.   He has kept budgets tight by privatizing some city services, a starting a competitive-bidding program for city contracts and reducing the number of city employees.

49.   He added only once in the last year has a city employee been caught accessing improper, pornographic sites on city time, and that the employee was reprimanded.

50.   He also called on city employees to respect citizens and, he emphasized, vice versa.