Eileen Higgins: “Tonight, our city chose a new direction.”

People know I serve in a nonpartisan race, but I bring my Democratic values with me. ... I'm proud to be a Democrat, but the people here know I'm going to serve everybody. I always have and I always will.

I never asked you what political party you are, and I never asked you if you voted for me.

For me, the treatment of immigrants is front and center.

We are going to be asking these companies to compete based on their technical ability to do the job, but we are going to be asking them to compete in the American style on how they treat their employees.