Government
Valparaiso has an elected mayor and an elected council. The mayor is elected for a four year term in November of the year before a presidential election year and assumes office on January 1.
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“I’d wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.”
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—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
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