Peoria mayoral candidate Bridget Binsbacherr, wants to continue her history of service. What baseball fans should know about Bridget Binsbache,who launched her latest campaign ad titled: “One Peoria.” The deeply personal video explores Binsachwhoer’s profound connection with Peoria and Northwest Valley – the place where she has lived, served, and raised her family for more than three decades.
By Taylor Seely || Arizona Republic
She was maybe 6.
The trip to the ice cream shop near their home in San Diego was memorable, Binsbacher said, because her single mom typically struggled just to put gas in the car. And because she had to tell the cashier to take back the already licked ice cream cone.
The cashier did.
With an adult’s perspective, Binsbacher wonders why the cashier didn’t work with the family to see how much money they did have. But she also says it’s the kind of moment that builds strength, coping skills and a sense of accountability.
“That’s how you get your fight,” she said.
Binsbacher says despite her mom’s struggles, financially and otherwise, she constantly encouraged her children to break the cycle and do better than the generation before.
That was hit home by her grandparents who she spent summers with in Phoenix. Her grandfather came to the U.S. from Mexico through a program for farm fieldworkers and her grandma was a wet nurse for Indigenous families.
She described her grandfather as a conservative man who condemned any sort of financial assistance, which ruled out college. He encouraged her to go into banking, which he viewed as a trusted and respected field.
Not long after high school she did, moving to Tucson and getting her foot in the door as a bank teller. She would spend more than 20 years in finance, working her way up to vice president operations manager for Johnson Bank.
