Robert Towne
March, 1975
"The Bluebloods, the fakers and the big shots have been draining this lousy town for too long," charges Edward Hanna, the feisty 51-year-old mayor of Utica, New York, whose "people's government" has been outraging the establishment there since his election 16 months ago. "They're all in bed together—the banks, who don't give a damn, the lousy monopoly newspaper and the Chamber of No-Commerce." Hanna claims that Utica (population 91,000) has been struggling under the...
