Mayor TV is a challenge from America’s mayors to the 2008 Presidential candidates: Start talking about cities. Learn more
- Mayor Michael Nutter
- Philadelphia, PA / Pop. 1,449,634 / Elected 2007
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“Often, whatever the federal government is not doing or what states are not doing shows up as problems in cities all across America.”
— Mayor Michael Nutter
- Mayors We Interviewed
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Antonio Villaraigosa
Los Angeles, CA
“Poverty, work and opportunity, bolstering the middle class, housing, infrastructure ... it is absolutely criminal that the federal government has failed to address these issues.”
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Shirley Franklin
Atlanta, GA
“We must invest in infrastructure, or Atlanta's economy -- and the national economy -- is going to shrivel up and die.”
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Manny Diaz
Miami, FL
“The media and the pollsters focus on issues like war, abortion, gay rights. Quite frankly, for those of us in the trenches, they're not the hot button issues.”
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John Hickenlooper
Denver, CO
“Cities are America's laboratories. But once we figure out solutions, we need the federal government's help to roll them out to the entire country.”
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R.T. Rybak
Minneapolis, MN
“I want a community organizer in the White House, because that's what I do every single day.”
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Douglas Palmer
Trenton, NJ
“Our cities are where it’s at.”
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Christopher Doherty
Scranton, PA
“The strength of a city is the combustion engineering that takes place inside it.”
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Pegeen Hanrahan
Gainesville, FL
“Use our cities more effectively.”
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Byron Brown
Buffalo, NY
“The presidential nomination process certainly has a negative effect on the coverage of cities.”
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Tom Menino
Boston, MA
“I challenge you, presidential candidates - talk more about cities. It will be beneficial to you, it will be beneficial to the country.”
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Rocky Anderson
Salt Lake City, UT
“President Bush has not only neglected cities, but has hurt our cities in such enormous ways.”
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Sheila Dixon
Baltimore, MD
“We have wars here in our city. We should be making strides against drugs and gang violence, but it's something I never hear the presidential candidates talk about.”
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Bob Duffy
Rochester, NY
“Our cities across this country are proud. They have a great history. But like a boxer, they've taken one knee, and they have to bring themselves back.”
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Antonio Villaraigosa
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Alon Levy on 09.17.2008:
Nowadays, the myth is more exurban than rural, I think. The Republicans used to say Democrats only played in big cities, while the Republican suburbs were real America. Now that the Democrats have flipped Long Island and Westchester and are about to flip Chester County and Dallas County, the Republicans have retreated to the exurbs, saying that they are now where America really is.
And for what it's worth, McCain's latest attempt at culture war politics, the anti-sex ed ad, reduced him from up by 3 points to down by 1.