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Kate Gallego: “None of the 15 largest cities in the country had a single…”

Featuring: Kate Gallego, Democrat | Mayor of Phoenix | Arizona

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Published | Video Starts at 03:32

So originally thought that this maybe was not possible for me. Just too much going on. Personally, at the time I was making the decision, None of the 15 largest cities in the country had a single female mayor [at the time I was making the decision]. and I had never lived in a city with a female mayor. So when I think about what a mayor looks like, I think of a tall man with, like, great puffy hair and not a short young woman. (03:32–03:37)

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Asserts that at the time of her decision to run, none of the 15 largest U.S. cities had a female mayor.

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