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Gayle McLaughlin is not only the first Green elected to be mayor in California, she will also apparently head up the largest city in the US to currently have a Green mayor.

The well-read among you will recall that Mike Feinstein was mayor of Santa Monica for a while. That's because they have some weird system there where the post of mayor cycles through the City Council. It was the council Mike was elected to, not mayor.