mayor
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She previously stood as the Green Party's candidate for West Midlands mayor in the 2024 election.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Since then, Binface has contested elections against former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak as well as London mayor Sadiq Khan, consistently drawing thousands of votes and extensive media coverage.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Zhu was Shanghai mayor in 1989, when he made a practical public appeal to diffuse Tiananmen Square-like demonstrations in the business-minded city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
In 2002 the port town of Hartlepool elected as mayor the mascot of its football team, H’Angus the Monkey, who went on to serve three terms.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
The mayor said, “We never made a deal with you, Upton. Maybe it was going to rain anyway, without your hocus-pocus. We’re not paying you a penny.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
There is, I think, a tradition in the U.S. of appointing dogs as mayors of small towns, but in the U.K. we take the nonsense political candidate to another level entirely.
From Slate ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Article 215 gives him an opportunity to assert executive authority, deal directly with governors and mayors, bypass political gridlock and lean on Washington,” said Lansberg-Rodríguez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Steven Keener, a professor of criminology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia, said residents can meet with city council members or mayors to convince them to cancel their contracts with the surveillance company.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
The rich complained, but mayors from Rudy Giuliani to de Blasio courted the city’s most successful to help keep the city in the black.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
It has boasted black mayors, black police chiefs, black legislators, and is home to the nation’s first black president.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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