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Campaign in the City: Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown

By VideoNation & MayorTV

December 14, 2007

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"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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