My assessment of his role on the council is that he has been effective. He has gotten himself into the thick of the baseball politics with his own backing and plan, and has carved out some attention to development projects in Southeast as a part of the construction.
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Some of this stuff is really very serious. It's not like before when the Republicans sort of said that the party was reaching out to the black vote when they really weren't.
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