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SACRAMENTO ― Former Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo (pictured) now says she's considering running again for Sacramento's top spot.
Fargo, who held the office for eight years, says she hasn't made any final decisions. She lost her re-election campaign to Mayor Kevin Johnson one year ago.
"Obviously there are a lot of things going on at city hall. It's a little frustrating to be watching it from the outside, and seeing some of the disarray there," said Fargo. "But you know, there's good people there and they'll just have to sort it out."
Fargo publicized her battle with multiple sclerosis in the last year of her term. She says she's better rested now than she has been in two decades, and says her health is holding steady.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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