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Ashley Harder is the Phoenix councilwoman we need

Chris Johns

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OPINION — I am proud to support Ashley Harder for Phoenix City Council. Ashley was my landlord for 15 years, but that description does not come close to explaining what she meant to Revival Art Collective or to me as a small-business owner.

In 2012, I was trying to find a home for Revival in Downtown Phoenix. I had looked at space after space, heard “no” more times than I can remember, and was starting to wonder whether I was going to make it work. Then I met Ashley.

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