The New York Times carried a feature on 28 November on the win of the first US Dominican Mayor.
"On the same night that President-elect Barack Obama broke one electoral barrier, Dr. Blanco broke another, becoming the first Dominican elected to a mayor?s office in the United States. There were state and county legislators, judges and city council members before, and even, briefly, an acting mayor (in 2001, in Lawrence, Mass.), but no Dominican had ever won a mayoral election. ?He?s sort of become the Dominican Neil Armstrong,? said Cid Wilson of Leonia, a past president of the Dominican American National Roundtable, an advocacy group that counts 36 Dominican elected officials in the United States. ?There was a lot of celebration. This was very big news.?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/nyregion/new-jersey/30colnj.html?_r=2
"On the same night that President-elect Barack Obama broke one electoral barrier, Dr. Blanco broke another, becoming the first Dominican elected to a mayor?s office in the United States. There were state and county legislators, judges and city council members before, and even, briefly, an acting mayor (in 2001, in Lawrence, Mass.), but no Dominican had ever won a mayoral election. ?He?s sort of become the Dominican Neil Armstrong,? said Cid Wilson of Leonia, a past president of the Dominican American National Roundtable, an advocacy group that counts 36 Dominican elected officials in the United States. ?There was a lot of celebration. This was very big news.?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/nyregion/new-jersey/30colnj.html?_r=2