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Fifteen Minutes (FM): You were elected and sworn in as mayor back in January. How was the job been...
...Denise Simmons (EDS): It’s been really great. I mean, you don’t know the job of mayor until you do it. But then again, it gives you opportunities to work on issues that are important to you as an individual or your constituency as well as issues that appear before the council on a regular basis. One of the things I said in my inaugural remarks was that I really wanted to engage my community, which is what I have tried while in office...
...city council voted unanimously for you as mayor. How did you pull that...
...sure you get this question a lot, but as the first black, openly lesbian mayor in the country, what are you and the city Cambridge doing for minority and GBLT individuals and families in Cambridge...
...remains to be seen whether Wilkerson’s narrative will end where former Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick’s hubris-fueled collapse did: in the penitentiary. Last month, Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to eight felony charges of obstruction of justice after his lackadaisical attempt to snuff out rumors of the extramarital affair he was carrying on over thousands of SMS messages with his chief of staff. Kilpatrick’s cover-up looked like something out of the Huey Long playbook: intimidating and firing police officers, lying under oath and all the while using his privileged position...