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Inside Jamie Gauthier’s tumultuous first year on Philly City Council — and what comes next

Gauthier’s role offers the city’s rising progressive movement an opportunity to test policies in West Philadelphia that a majority of Council won’t support.

Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, center, talks with a resident who was vaccinated at a community COVID-19 vaccination clinic operated by Penn Medicine and Mercy Catholic Medical Center at the Francis J. Myers Recreation Center in Southwest Philadelphia on Feb. 27.
Philadelphia City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier, center, talks with a resident who was vaccinated at a community COVID-19 vaccination clinic operated by Penn Medicine and Mercy Catholic Medical Center at the Francis J. Myers Recreation Center in Southwest Philadelphia on Feb. 27.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer