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New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and a group of newly-elected mayors from across the country speak to the media outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013.
Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg

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By Emily Greenhouse

January 13, 2015 at 10:45 AM UTC

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Bill de Blasio is on the hunt for "beautiful faces ;)." New York’s Mayor is behind the bid to host the 2016 Democratic National Convention, in Brooklyn, and a staffer from his Community Affairs Unit has sent out a call for “everyday New Yorkers,” in their motley, swaggering glory, to star in a pitch video.

The 2016 DNC should be hosted in NYC, de Blasio’s dnc2016.nyc website announces touts, for a variety of reasons, including “every language is spoken here," “Broadway—'nuf said," “Hold the convention anywhere else? Fuhggedabout it," and "The MET, ever heard of it? We've got culture."