"You want me to vote for some guy who flips burgers on grill and who's half dead with leukemia?" -Page 50. G.T Scoop is the owner of a restaurant called Welcome Stairways. The title of the book is called Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer. This book talks about a man named G.T Scoop running for mayor while diagnosed with leukemia and a plentiful of other stories. The book Hope Was Here shows how G.T Scoop wanted to be mayor and how he got to the point of being mayor. G.T Scoop has wanted to run for mayor, especially the current mayor Eli Millstone has been in the position for eight years. As a result Scoop wants to run against Millstone in the race for mayor. According to the book on page 31 it says, "I needed to get myself