71.   Gore also questioned those who support state laws that prohibit cities from filing suit against gun manufacturers.

72.   Hahn said the latest plan would prevent the city from issuing bonds this summer to build public safety facilities throughout the city, including the Valley.

73.   He credited African-American community leaders such as Don Muhammad for helping to prevent the city from exploding.

74.   He said he had heard much about the team and city from his friends, the former Mets Bobby Bonilla, Daryl Boston and Mookie Wilson.

75.   He remembers the bad days, when he had to handcuff himself to a post to stop the city from erecting a barbed-wire fence around Beale Street.

76.   He wants increases in the lease payments to the city from the authority-operated airports.

77.   He said that Giuliani saw the sale of the television station as an important means of removing the city from the business of operating broadcast properties.

78.   He said the family had moved to the city from Mexico.

79.   He tacked an amendment on a spending bill that would prevent the city from using federal housing money because it requires contractors to provide benefits for domestic partners.

80.   He touched on a concept that differentiates this city from most of its American counterparts.