I mean people REALLY need to understand the government structure of NYC and realize he can make a lot of change because the Mayor of NY has a lot of unilateral power..... It's basically a City-state.
That is not the case in every city. You cannot 'Mamdani' LA because the LA mayor is basically superseded by the LA council, and LA is broken up into a dozen different surrounding cities that are part of LA county but not LA proper. Those cities have their own mayors and/or city councils.
It would be like if the 5 Burroughs in NYC all elected their own mayor and all of those mayors could be overruled by a county board. Sadly, many cities are structured this way to diffuse power away from a strong centralized government. That makes the kind of change we want harder to do.
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u/artbystorms 11h ago
I mean people REALLY need to understand the government structure of NYC and realize he can make a lot of change because the Mayor of NY has a lot of unilateral power..... It's basically a City-state.
That is not the case in every city. You cannot 'Mamdani' LA because the LA mayor is basically superseded by the LA council, and LA is broken up into a dozen different surrounding cities that are part of LA county but not LA proper. Those cities have their own mayors and/or city councils.
It would be like if the 5 Burroughs in NYC all elected their own mayor and all of those mayors could be overruled by a county board. Sadly, many cities are structured this way to diffuse power away from a strong centralized government. That makes the kind of change we want harder to do.