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"The media and pollsters don't focus on urban issues. They focus on the war, abortion, gay rights -- things that, quite frankly, for those of us in the trenches, are not exactly the hot button issues."
Seventh in a series of ten conversations with mayors across America. (Project of The Nation and the Drum Major Institute.)
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