01.29.2018 - By e.Republic + Governing Magazine
On this episode, Mattie talks with Merceria Ludgood, Mobile County Commissioner. She talks on the show today about growing up with a sense a civic duty, how things have changed for women in politics in the 10 years since she first ran for office and her efforts to empower a more impoverished area of the country. She also has a story from her first election that you just have to hear to believe.