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President Barack Obama meets with the U.S. Conference of Mayors leadership to discuss the economy and their local efforts to create jobs and spur economic growth, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, June 20, 2011.
Monday afternoon, President Obama met with a bipartisan group of fourteen mayors to talk about the state of the economy in their cities and their just-ended meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Baltimore, Maryland. The President, who was joined by Vice President Biden, Chief of Staff Bill Daley, and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, stressed his continued commitment to working closely with mayors to spur job creation and economic growth.
Mayors attending included:
• Mayor David Bing of Detroit, MI
• Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City, OK
• Mayor Buddy Dyer of Orlando, FL
• Mayor Anthony Foxx of Charlotte, NC
• Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, MO
• Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, CA
• Mayor Elizabeth Kautz of Burnsville, MN
• Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia, PA
• Mayor Jean Quan of Oakland, CA
• Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta, GA
• Mayor Joe Riley of Charleston, SC
• Mayor R.T. Rybak of Minneapolis, MN
• Mayor Scott Smith of Mesa, AZ
• Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, CA
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/06/21/president-obama-discusses-economic-growth-america-s-mayors
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