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A Dixon victory: Rawlings-Blake defeats Sarbanes in Democratic race for City Council president amid low turnout.
Byline: John Fritze and Sumathi Reddy
Sep. 12--Sheila Dixon, the hard-driving West Baltimore politician who became the city's first female mayor, easily defeated Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., a scion of one of the nation's prominent civil rights families, in a low-turnout Democratic mayoral primary yesterday.
In the race for City Council president, Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, the incumbent, beat Michael Sarbanes in a contest that pitted the children of two respected political leaders against each other.
"I have never been more honored in my life than I am right now at this very moment," Dixon, 53, told jubilant supporters at a Canton victory party last night. "I am your humble servant and will work tirelessly on your behalf."
Together, Dixon and Rawlings-Blake will pick up the reins of a city that has made tremendous progress in the past decade but is facing difficult challenges -- from a glut of vacant homes to a school system with a staggeringly low graduation rate to a homicide rate that is the second-worst in the nation, behind only Detroit's.
"Too many of our children are not getting the education that they deserve. Too many of our neighborhoods are turning to drugs and crime. Too many people are unable to find the jobs to support their families, but I will guarantee to each and every Baltimore citizen that I will devote all of my energy to all dreams because all dreams are possible," Dixon said last night.
As Dixon declared victory, Mitchell conceded the…
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