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We Need a Mayor for President
The mayors I’ve met are can-do optimists, free of the cynicism and vitriol that has poisoned much of American politics. Many were political outsiders who felt called to serve. Haris Doukas was a mechanical engineering professor before being elected mayor of Athens, Greece. Patrick Payton, the now-former mayor of Midland, Texas, was a pastor. Each signed up for a relatively unglamorous job that’s part CEO, part building inspector, part mediator—and, on a bad week—part first responder and grief counselor.
In my experience, mayors tend to be deeply committed to their fellow human beings and their livelihoods. Henriette Reker was stabbed in the neck the day before being elected mayor of Cologne, Germany, while still in a coma. Her would-be assassin opposed Germany’s “influx of refugees,” and yet when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a fully recovered Reker didn’t hesitate to welcome more than 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war.
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