Mayor Mike Gin featured on NPR segment “Redondo Beach: Unusual Leadership Dodges Red Ink”
Redondo Beach Mayor Mike Gin is featured in the fourth installment of the NPR series, America’s Mayors: Governing In Tough Times. Outside the Beltway, in cities large and small, mayors are grappling with economic challenges. NPR’s series explores how those cities, and their mayors, are coping in a segment titled Redondo Beach: Unusual Leadership Dodges Red Ink.
The six part series features Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Knox White of Greenville, S.C., Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Mayor Wayne Seybold of Marion, Ind., Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Mayor Gin.
“The wall in the hallway outside the Redondo Beach Mayor’s Office kind of says it all: There is row after row of smiling faces. Almost all male. All pale. Some blond, some gray. All very indicative of what many Americans still think of when you say “California beach city,” until the last photo in the last row.
The current mayor is male, but he’s Asian, and looks significantly younger than many of his predecessors. That alone would make 48-year-old Mike Gin a break with his predecessors. But he’s also gay. And Republican. And extremely popular with his citizenry.”
Keeping things “in check” fiscally means doing what his late parents, William and Albertine, raised him to do: not spend more than you make, and stick to your budget. Being a civic cheapskate has been a large part of the reason Gin has been able to pilot Redondo Beach through the choppy red ink that has deluged much of the rest of the state.” excerpt from NPR.org
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