"What do we call her?" "They had a big story about that in the paper." "I said, "Oh, my God."" "And they decided that I should be addressed as" ""Madame Alderman."" "They hardly ever did it, number one, and I was glad!" "I just wanted be an alderman." "Phillipswentto work at City Hall, but her excitement over her historic win was quickly tempered." "Shewastreatedlikeadog  by her co-aldermen." "Phillipswasurgedby fellow Council members to join the Aldermen's Wives Club." "Iwentto theAlderman's Wives, the first meeting." "They just talked about baby formula and stuff like that." "It was just unbelievable." "Milwaukeealdermenwere required to share offices." "Council chairmen Martin Schreiber called Phillips in to talk." "AndthenIcaughtit right away." "I said, "And no one wants to be with me."" "Well, you can tell I wasn't that ugly." "He said, "They're afraid to be with you because you are a woman and you're black."" "I said, "I want my own office." "Just put me by myself." "If they don't want to be with me, I sure as hell don't want to be with them."" "But I talked real big about it but it hurt me really deep down." "I just thought, why did I even try this?" "There were many nights when I would let my husband know that I cried myself to sleep." "Whenshe'streatedthisway right in front of the whole city, you bet she wasn't involved in the back room discussions." "The business is done in the back rooms, and she was not." "Dalewasworried about his wife, and her career." "Wemusthavesomepolicy about what happens here in the Common Council chambers." "I think that students coming down" "I was gonna be on television, and I was excited because" "I had never been on the television before." "So soon as I got home I called my husband, "Did you watch it?"" "First thing he said, "It was not a pretty picture." "You interrupted Schreiber three times, you interrupted Mortier." "They just didn't know how to handle it, at all." "And you took full advantage."" "[laughter] But let me tell you, it never happened again." "I changed." "Talk less and do more." "Dalewasalwaysthere to call it as it was." "Just an understanding of how things worked, a knowledge of the political animal." "Abrilliantstrategist." "Brilliant in knowing when to push just this much and not that much more." "Velisenergeticand  sometimes going in several directions at once, so to have that counterbalance, that council that encourages reflection or to take a moment to pause." "There's no doubt that he was central to her political career and to her rise and her achievement, her success." "Soshe'sfiguringout , she's spending her time as a good lawyer, reading the rules, how things are done." "IthinkIwas aquietforce ." "[music]"