Edited sentence: After two effective years in office from 1994-1996 with a supportive 5-4 majority, the council majority shifted against Mayor Dean after a mid-term election.Dean during her term in office.Dean in 2002.Dean's ill-judged masquerade as Worthington's "aunt" took place some years after the breakdown in council relations for which Worthington bears as much responsibility as she.From then through Dean's defeat in 2002, the Council was divided and frequently dysfunctional.It was a team effort driven at least as much by the adamant refusal of some council members, and in particular Kriss Worthington (see below), to cooperate with Mayor Dean in any matter, no matter how minor and non-partisan.Since his election, Mayor Bates has become the object of the very same vituperation and disrespect suffered by Ms.The blame for the Council's frequently acrimonious relationships and inability to work for the common good does not lie solely with Mayor Dean.They now attack Bates as a sellout, demonstrating their seeming incapacity to accept the fact that politics is the art of compromise and practical realism.To place Dean's career in perspective, it is perhaps enough to observe that Councilmember Worthington and other self-proclaimed progressives recruited Tom Bates to come out of retirement in order to run against Ms.Under Bates' leadership, however, the extreme faction that stymied Dean has become marginalized