Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis for the first time in decades come calls to strip the mayor of much of his political powers, but local leaders say it has nothing to do with the election.Mobile users tap here to watch the videoAnnapolis Alderman Ross Arnett, D-Ward 8, said he told The Capital of Annapolis that he wants the City Council to reconsider an amendment that would put Annapolis under a council-manager style of government, saying it's something that has come up before and that it has nothing to do with the newly elected Republican mayor."I think there's a tempest in the teapot here," Arnett said. "This whole slant that this is angry Democrats trying undo or to emasculate a newly elected Republican mayor is just not the case."Mayor-elect Michael Pantalides said he believes Arnett. The two spoke by phone Monday morning."This has nothing to do with me. This has come up year after year," Pantelides said. "When I talked to him, he actually said it got out of control. He wasn't doing it because I'm Republican. He brought it up under two previous Democratic administrations. I absolutely believe him."Arnett said the city needs someone who knows how to run the city's day-to-day business, which he said is a $95-million-a-year complex business, and the mayor needs to concentrate his efforts elsewhere."We need the elected officials to manage policy. We need to be the ones to make policy on things like should we or should we not have work done here on the city dock," Arnett said."We have a weak mayor system -- the mayor only has one of nine votes on the council, so if you have this city manager, there's no point in having a mayor, and that's not what the people voted for," Pantalides said.So the mayor-elect gave his current job two week's notice, and now he's onto picking a transition team. This discussion is likely to be ongoing as it already has been.