Call me a nutty guy, but for my money, there's no greater production house for entertainment than local government. Besides being free, which is nice, the spectacle delivers pretty much the same ballgame as national or state politics sans the escalating moral depravity you'll often find as you scope up to those levels. Just like the bush leagues, the players aren’t so wrapped up in the mystique of their high stations that they can’t shoot the breeze with the common folk, or otherwise get away with naked corruption up to and including literal murder.
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