“When you’re a mayor, there’s no waving away. If there is a hole in the road, and you didn’t fill it in, and somebody calls you out on it, you don’t get to say, 'That’s fake news. It’s a great road. There’s no hole in it.' Because they’ll look at the hole and they’ll know.”
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