And that's, I think, kind of what drove me to run for city council. We were the biggest city in America that didn't have single member districts at the time. Basically a remnant of the Jim Crow era of not having representation for different neighborhoods. And so my area had never had a city council member. I was 24 at the time, ran up through my 25th birthday campaigns powered by like volunteers paid by … (02:05–02:12)
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