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O'Connor, however, sticks to her vision of a "global" San Diego that somehow, with strict limits on new growth, will also preserve its beach-town quality of life. And she sticks up for women leaders as being more approachable than men, more service oriented and more concerned with their communities than with their personal ambitions. "When I took office three years ago, we had a mayor who'd been convicted. We had a councilman and a housing director under investigation. The city had gone through five mayors in four years," she says. "I was elected as a Democrat in a heavily Republican city with 60%. Mayor Mo must be doing something right."