My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was about 15, 16 years old when my father first ran for mayor, and that's where I cut my teeth.
I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
My mom, she was unbelievable. She ran the whole town. She was like the mayor. There would be 15 people eating at our lunch table. She'd drag people from the street.
I ran for my first office at 25 against an incumbent city councilman. I took 55% of the vote and became the youngest councilman in the area at the time.
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
My mother was a politician in my formative years.
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
I ran for public office to do something good.
First thing that I put up in my office here at City Hall was a poster from 1971 when my mother ran for city council.
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