The transition team of a politician is usually funded by lobbyists and mega donors and can cost tens of millions of dollars. Mandami has rejected funds from these sources so his transition is being crowed sourced and that is big news because that means he’s not owed by lobbyists.
It’s cool that he does this, but overall seems like a weird system. Presumably, this transition period is needed to prepare for the start of his new job, shouldn’t there just be a budget in place so that politicians don’t rely on either bribes or donations to fund it?
Yes there should, pretty much everything about the American system is fucked beyond belief. He’s doing really good things within the confines of that system so far though, hopefully it continues
Our system is corrupted from top to bottom. A good majority of our problems are due to relying on big money in politics. It’s a system that gatekeeps people with ethics from succeeding.
The transition team of a politician is usually funded by lobbyists and mega donors and can cost tens of millions of dollars. Mandami has rejected funds from these sources so his transition is being crowed sourced and that is big news because that means he’s not owed by lobbyists.
It’s cool that he does this, but overall seems like a weird system. Presumably, this transition period is needed to prepare for the start of his new job, shouldn’t there just be a budget in place so that politicians don’t rely on either bribes or donations to fund it?
Yes there should, pretty much everything about the American system is fucked beyond belief. He’s doing really good things within the confines of that system so far though, hopefully it continues
Mamdani could write that into law; but he has so much resting on him; he needs that team in place in advance.
Our system is corrupted from top to bottom. A good majority of our problems are due to relying on big money in politics. It’s a system that gatekeeps people with ethics from succeeding.
God damn that’s really cool
my man