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Square_Rabbit65 t1_iz6jgai wrote

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in NYC comptroller says Adams has ‘exacerbated’ widespread city worker vacancies by mowotlarx

You're on the right track there.

Having worked for both the legislative and executive branches of government I can attest to the fact that most elected officials have no idea what's going on at a macro scale.

Once confronted with the complexity of intergovernmental affairs and policy issues they realize their campaign promises probably aren't as realistic as they thought them to be.

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mowotlarx OP t1_iz6ww1g wrote

>Once confronted with the complexity of intergovernmental affairs

...They pass a local law requiring a Task Force and the creation of a new agency/department that is supposed to wrangle information from every agency that inevitably does a bad job because it's staffed by people who themselves also don't understand how the city works. It's a tale as old as time.

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