21.   Supporters of Cortines accuse the mayor of appointing those panel members because they would recommend bringing the school safety function under the control of the Police Department.

22.   That prompted Pataki aide Zenia Mucha to accuse the mayor of being disloyal to Bush.

23.   The advocacy groups accused the mayor of seeking to pack the board with his own members to avoid a fine.

24.   The mayor was accused of corruption, but he was later cleared of the charges.

25.   The mayor cannot be accused of playing to the voters, since most politicians would walk a mile to avoid offending senior citizens.

26.   The same critics also accused the mayor of using the same sort of patronage that he decried during his campaign.

27.   They accuse the mayor of wishfully thinking that other communities will accept what those around LAX are rejecting.

28.   They accused the mayor, essentially, of not being able to take a joke.

29.   William Dobbs, spokesman for a group called New Yorkers for Free Expression, accused the mayor of having a hidden agenda.

30.   He accused the mayor, a former prosecutor, of trying to bolster waning popularity by picking on a group of people no one wants to defend publicly.