Picture this scenario.
Socialist Steve Dawes, by hook or crook, manages to steal a spot on the council. He then negotiates, representing the City, a new union contract with the poop cleansing department at the water works dept.
This is why municipal employee should not be unionized. They give the union a 3% raise (minimum) and then the union kicks back part of that to the democrat in power that gave them the raise. Their hero Roosevelt knew this.
I'm sure the big guy for a brief time entertained fantasies of sitting in an office, skimming ten bucks off each tradesman's license, twenty-five bucks off each home-improvement permit, and 10% of all city construction projects, for himself.
After all, Democrats do that all the time in blue cities and blue states.
But Bellevue's not that way. Hell, Democrat-machine-operated Omaha's not even anything near like that.
It appears to be slowly dawning on the big guy that the pickings might not be as much as he'd hoped.
And so he's losing interest; all he
really wants is an arm-chair in the parlor-car of the disability gravy-train, and the chance to hang around the primitives on Skins's island all day long. That's his life's ambition.