Mayor of Winnipeg
On June 22, 2004, Katz was elected as the first Jewish mayor of Winnipeg., beating Dan Vandal, Al Golden, and MaryAnn Mihychuk and receiving 42% of the vote. This came after the resignation of Glen Murray as mayor of Winnipeg to run in the 2004 federal election.
Katz was re-elected to a second term in the 2006 elections on October 25, 2006 with 61.60% of the vote. He was re-elected to a third term in the 2010 elections on October 27, 2010 with 55% of the vote.
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“Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them register their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)