For many big-city mayors, "a paralyzing blizzard or ice storm is the most serious crisis they ever face." This article discusses how various political careers have been destroyed because of bad responses to snow storms. Denver's had a few instances of this, but Mayor Hickenlooper was able to get reelected after a slow response to a storm a few years ago by joking that the storms are "politically motivated."
Read more here: http://www.governing.com/node/998/
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