# What do you guys make of this? (Local mayoral candidate video)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 15, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-guys-make-of-this-local-mayoral-candidate-video/557199 "2010-10-15T00:40:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-guys-make-of-this-local-mayoral-candidate-video/557199/1 "2010-10-15T00:40:58Z")

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[Barb Higgins (the candidate) talks with interviewer.](http://video.citytv.com/video/detail/635867656001.000000/breakfast-with-the-candidates-higgins-hot-seat/) It is also germane to this question that before she became a mayoral candidate, Ms. Higgins was a 6:00 news anchor for a couple of decades - she is by no means a stranger to the interview process. There seems two be two schools of thought here - one, as a mayoral candidate, you open yourself up to questions and it’s your job to learn how to field them. The second school of thought is that the interviewer/questions were inappropriate, bordering on misogynistic.

What do you guys think of this? What is your outsider’s take?

For comparison purposes, [here is a different candidate with the same interviewer in the same situation.](http://video.citytv.com/video/detail/626202532001.000000/breakfast-with-the-candidates-nenshi-on-the-hot-seat/)