Chief of Staff Wilford Durbin What’s the speechwriting process like? Every speech is a collaborative process, and that begins first and foremost with sitting down with the mayor and asking what points he wants to make, what tone he wants to set, which constituencies he wants to address. I interview him much like we’re doing […]
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Students who survived the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School spoke about their push to end gun violence to a packed room at the Harvard Institute of Politics on Tuesday evening. The event was just days before March For Our Lives, a worldwide series of protests set for Saturday demanding an end […]
City Councilor Nadeem Mazen can still remember representatives of special interest groups approaching him on the street to offer him funding during his 2013 campaign. “I would have folks who passed me on the street and say, ‘Nadeem it’s election season, I’ve got to give you that max contribution,’” Mazen says. When he declined, Mazen […]