Campaign in the City: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown

By VideoNation & MayorTV

December 14, 2007

"While presidential candidates are raising substantial amounts of money in cities, they are spending it in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ... It disproportionately puts the focus on [rural] areas of the country where the majority of our citizenry do not live."

Third in a series of ten conversations with mayors across America. (Project of The Nation and the Drum Major Institute.)

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