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Is Oakland Ready? Jean Quan Hopes to Crack Mayoral Glass Ceiling

If all politics is local, Oakland City Council member Jean Quan should get a fair shake in that town's mayoral race this year against former California state Senate leader Don Perata. Quan, one of 12 women to ever serve on the City Council (and the first Asian-American woman), hopes to give Perata a run for his money (and he is said to have much more of it than she) on the merits of her two-plus decades of community-oriented work in Oakland. It was Lailan Huen, Quan's 27-year-old daughter, who eventually convinced her to run for mayor. "She said, 'Mom, you'll always wonder what a difference ...

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