Alexis Mercedes Rinck didn’t have the luxury of time. Normally, newly elected city politicians have months to build their administrative teams, iron out a punch list for their first 100 days in office, complete their onboarding alongside other fresh faces, and buckle in for a four-year term. Rinck, who won the Position 8 special election on November 5, had just four weeks to recruit a four-person staff before her swearing in on December 3. From there, she joined an in-full-swing city council—where, somewhat awkwardly, seven of eight members had endorsed her opponent, Tanya Woo. Then, as if she doesn’t have enough on her plate for her first year in
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