The other feature causing the most damage is the site's owner.

But I'm gonna keep demanding that we #banmayors. Not the office, itself. Ban the criminals who inevitably rise into it until or unless our politics changes in favor of real power to real people. The mayors we have under this regime, though, all go to the alligator alcatraz. 8/8.

But that's a digression for another time. My point is a "strong mayor" system is actually fine and probably more democratic on balance. Our problem isn't anything to do with technical competence, it's that our democracy is weak and under threat by corrupt oligarchs 7/8.

Kabacoff's group has been shopping this and a host of other reforms around to municipal candidates this year. I've come to think of it as "Project 2026." Whoever the next mayor is, these people will have their ear. But despite what they say, city services are NOT businesses. 6/8

And that's why I'm suspicious of the reforms outlined in that Gambit article. This "City Services Coalition" looks like a plutocratic coup to me. At the risk of being too pithy, just look who is heading it up. 5/8

This is pretty close to what I'm getting at when I say #BanMayors. I'm really talking about the rot and corruption in politics generally that makes these offices hollow in their execution. I don't think you can repair that fundamental discordance with a technocratic fix. 4/8.

Anyway Bob was actually answering a question about what kind of mayor he'd like to see. Here's what he says, it's quite good. 3/8

It was also brought to my attention that city council candidate @bob4districta mentioned #BanMayors during his Reddit AMA. I never got into Reddit. I thought it was the place on the internet where all the libertarians and Nazis were. They're here now so joke's on me I guess 2/8.

This week's @The_Gambit cheekily asks if we should #BanMayors. But as the official spokesperson of the #banmayors movement, I think I should clarify differences between what is proposed here vs what my actual point has been all along. 1/8

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