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Uploaded by on Nov 8, 2008

This past Tuesday the small town of Silverton, Oregon elected Stu Rasmussen as its mayor.

Rasmussen is first openly transgender candidate elected mayor in the country.

This short video accompanied a 11/7/2008 news story ("Silverton gives its vote to transgendered mayor") (tinyurl.com/6mxd9h) in The Oregonian about Rasmussen. (11/8/2008)

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  • Why don't you start running as a candidate, then?

  • I'm proud to be alive in a time when a person's qualifications trump their looks, and outdated 'morality' is history.

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  • I want to cry as I'm nearly overwhelmed by his success in spite of near hopeless, cruel odds. I know because I live daily with the so-called human-beings. integrity & morality are convinces. I hate this never ending joke

  • Sleazy.

  • @StephanieKayStevens

    Jeez the guy in this video sure is one big burly man!

    Was he in the NFL?

  • That man rocks! I'm moving to Oregon now.

  • @oldblubblub There's a basis for restricting use of terms "transvestite" and "cross-dresser" only to women in athletic supporters (if any) and men in bras. Skirts are no difference of anatomy; only a style difference. Men wore skirts as men for 1,000's of years and still do in many places see National Geographic. If a man is trying to present as a woman, it's fair to say he's a female impersonator. I definitely dispute that skirts & fancy clothes in general on a man, is "transvestism."

  • Way to appropriate women, dude. Hope you're a better mayor.

  • I love Silverton

  • A SMALL TOWN of all places? Wowee. This story warms my heart.

  • @carlycheyenne94 this is how i feel too. knew stu before he came out. he always seemed uncomfortable in his skin and now he is obviously happy. that makes me happy. stu is an enormously competent person. the voters know what theyre doing.

  • I have lived in silverton my whole life and known stu since I was little and he us aweso

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