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ENDORSEMENT OF RAFAEL ORTEGA FOR MAYOR by GAIL DANEKER
I am supporting Rafael because he is a strong progressive leader and I trust him to bring those progressive values to the Mayor's office. I have worked on many campaigns in Saint Paul and nationally and I always look for candidates who both advocate effectively for social justice in the political sphere and live it in their personal lives.
Rafael is deeply grounded in social justice. He grew up as a first generation immigrant on the Lower East Side of New York and was the family's translator and advocate. He experienced racism directly and he also saw people from every background working and living together in his own tenement and on his own block.
In my conversations with him I have seen real passion for change and a deep understanding about how we confront systems from the outside and the inside. I was impressed by his work with the Minnesota Council of Churches in the 1980s, building Chicanos Latinos Unidos en Servicio (CLUES) in the 80s and 90s, and by his work at the County Board since 1994. He has been a forceful leader building thousands of units of affordable housing, streamlining the intake system, and fixing the Ford Bridge among many other things.
I trust him to build a great Saint Paul and to include progressives in his administration for the first time in twelve years.
- Gail Daneker, Merriam Park, Ward 4
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