Original sentence: Like his father, Marc Morial made an attempt to amend the city charter in order to allow himself to run for a third term as mayor in 2002, but the effort failed with 61% of voters rejecting the amendment.Part of this increase was due to the much-publicized reduction in New Orleans’s high crime rate under the jurisdiction of Morial’s police chief Pennington, particularly a 60% reduction in the city’s violent crime rate.These real gains enabled a resugence of interest and investment in the city's older historic neighborhoods, and New Orleans did benefit from the nation's increasing interest in urban living
Edited sentence: Daley in Chicago.However, Morial's effort failed, with 61% of voters rejecting the amendment.Like his father, Marc Morial made an attempt to amend the city charter in order to allow himself to run for a third term as mayor in 2002.Morial cast this campaign, in part, as a mechanism to gain a mandate to assume control of the city's public schools and turn around their miserable performance, taking his cue from other mayors' similar assumptions of control of their public school systems - notably Richard M.Of particular significance was the 60% reduction achieved in the city’s violent crime rate.These real gains enabled a resurgence of interest and investment in the city's older historic neighborhoods, and New Orleans did benefit from the national trend of increasing interest in urban living.This development was due in part to the much-publicized reduction in New Orleans’ high crime rate through the effective leadership of Morial’s police chief Pennington