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12 Apr, 1988

Elected mayor

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Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs after a seven-way election with 4,842 votes. He celebrates his success among a crowd of 1,000 supporters at Maxim’s Suite Hotel as a live band plays the theme song from Rocky.

It’s a wonderful American thing that just happened.