The New York Times recently highlighted Charleston’s beloved Mayor Riley in an op-ed by columnist Frank Bruni. The piece touched on Mayor Riley’s strength of character and vision — and just what it takes to be re-elected Mayor for ten consecutive terms.

“To maintain enormous popularity in your city and equal reservoirs of respect professionally among your peers — I don’t think there’s anyone who’s been able to do that like he has,” Stephen Goldsmith, the former mayor of Indianapolis, told me.  I had to visit him. I was exhausted with all the cynicism, including my own, about politics and politicians, and I craved something and someone sunnier. I was curious about the perspective of a leader who had clearly gotten a whole lot right….”[EXCERPT] 

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