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because in chicago, the alderman, the people like the councilman, they have got this thing where they pay raises based on inflation. so, they are already to get about a 10% increase in pay. so, the mayor says okay, listen, mine would be capped at 5%. and she says it's not -- and this is the part that is hacking off a lot of people. she is saying that this 5% increase in her take-home pay is not a salary increase. she is saying, quote: to be clear, the ordinance that was introduced today would put the mayor and city treasurer and clerk in line with the alderman regarding the cost of living increase. it's not a salary increase. with all due respect, it is a salary increase. >> because your salary is going up trying to keep pace with inflation. but, inflation, obviously, right now at this point is about double that 5%. >> brian: think about this. if you are in chicago, she is running for re-election. this is such an in your face. it's almost as i dare you to fire me. i will dance on television. i will put on crazy videos, i will demand i give -- demand that i get a raise and then i'm goi

jim was in alderman who for nearly two decades reached out to his fellow irish catholics and then after his death in 1911 brother tom also known as boss tom took over offering to feed the hungry and clothe the poor and provide thousands of jobs. that is the key to the success of any machine. the political boss was a means to greater enfranchisement, and in portly a source of patronage. those they helped repay the pendergast as a clichÉ goes by voting early and voting often. such unique access allow the machine to pass a major issue that among us expected benefits, allow the machine to control numerous city projects. the power increase throughout the decades. by the early 1930s, her pentagon ally sat in the governors chair, the state house in jefferson city was nicknamed uncle tom's cabin. numerous statewide elected officials over there -- to the machine. for the first time and more than five decades, kansas city was granted home rule, meaning control of the police force. something our current mayor wishes he probably had today. with the police controlled by city hall, pendergast expande

and an alderman in this period, just to to to observe was was a city magistrate. he was one of the legal officials to whom you would typically report a crime. the top magistrate was, the mayor, but all of the aldermen were accustomed to getting criminal complaints. so a lot of may well have from her uncle before he had died. five or six years earlier about the process of receiving criminal complaints. and in any case the first person that lorna sought out on the morning after this assault as she was gathering her courage to go home, was her aunt or widowed aunt. and as it happened, this widowed aunt lived with none other than the aunt of alexander hamilton. they live they lived on in a house overlooking the bowling green. but one of the landmarks in new york that is still there. and she was, to remind you, it was this hamilton's mostly came from his wife's family. so she was on the money side of hamilton's family. so lorna sawyer's family was working class, but they had deep roots in the city and they had relations who are affluent and well-connected. but i think

i remember going back to the newsroom and going, this alder man is fighting with this alderman and thatded up being the first page story. whatever it was done for the parks system and new pay ground -- new playground equipment, that runs deep inside the paper. you look at those three things, and social media, to kathleen's point, and the click bait, those are the ones that get the attention. those are all problems in our democracy today. elena: we all need to look at the institutions we represent. i am thrilled you mentioned the media. but i am glad you mentioned some solutions. that's what i was going to ask, what are conversations you have privately about how to fix this? ranked choice voting, redistricting, money. the problem is those are pretty tractable issues. before we get off on the challenges, i wonder if you can speak as three high-profile women in positions of power, even though we have seen enormous strides for women gaining entry to congress, we are still at -- still not at 50-50, have not seen a female president. what are challenges you have dealt with that your male colle

this incident, metacom was dead too shut -- shot down by a christian indian that the english called alderman. captain benjamin church had the sachem dismembered and his head sent to plymouth. there, on the very site where the samoset -- sachem's father had allied and feasted with the pilgrims they mounted the head at the town gate and allowed it to rot. it is likely one of the very last things that metacom's wife saw when plymouth shipped her from her homeland into slavery. later that week plymouth held a day of thanksgiving in praise of god for saving the colony from its enemies. though history rarely plays attention to the wampanoags after king philip's war, my book emphasizes that this conflict was just the first stage in a centuries long battle to defend their land and sovereignty. it to come as no surprise that the english seized nearly all of the wampanoags' territory in the decades after the war leaving only a handful of town-sized reservations for mostly christian indians. less well-known is that the english also seized the wampanoags' as bound laborers. from the late 1600s through t

ald alderman, mayors, governors and legislators at all levels. these are people who have won general elections by appealing to the entire electorate. people who have a feel for the broader public. no group of party elders, for example, would ever choose a candidate like herschel walker. primaries, by contrast, entrust candidate selection to the most radical section of the party. social media has added fuel to the fire by amplifying the noisiest and angriest voices within the party, who are an even smaller group than prime minister voters. while the problem is far worse and much more dangerous on the republican side, these pressures do also affect democrats. many of the issues where joe biden is constrained in his actions, in particular, immigration and energy, are ones where the activist base of the party has much more extreme views than the main stream. and pivoting to the center as pennsylvania candidate john fetterman did on fracking did is increasingly difficult, where you can easily play old clips of a politician before he changed his mind.

thing that i learned for them from them was like deep frustration with local politics and local alderman and living communities like pullman and illinois, where i talked to lisa who was organizing you black maga people across the country, people who had seen divestment from their neighborhoods had seen, you know, quality of go, you know, in leaps and bounds. and we're blaming that on, you know, democratic leadership that saw, you know, i, i would probably counter that you know maybe we look at republican government but like republican governors rather but i think that you seeing that signs of decay around them in their and feeling like government doesn't care that that was that was part of what was driving them towards republicanism. i think this thing around gun rights and the ability safeguard your community has proven to be a big draw for a number of black people that feel like sort of under there under attack in their community in a number of different. but i think mainly what i saw is that people all want to see small, small, independent businesses. you popped up in their community.

plunkett, like tweed, held a variety of positions, anything from local alderman to city councilman to new york state assembly and senator. but again, the particular position didn't matter so much as his access to patronage jobs. this is how he built loyalty from voters, and this is also how he enriched himself. and again, think of the tweed scandal and the problem of kind of excessive enrichment. the book of tammany hall was written 30 years after. things have changed somewhat. some distinctions, shall we say, have been introduced, but there's no pretension here. there's no like, oh, we're modest politicians, we're above board. we would never enrich ourselves through politics. no, he's very up front. the the first chapter's very up front about the fact that he does, in fact, enrich himself through politics. but he makes a key -- i don't know how to say aristocratic, but a key moral distinction here. perhaps one you haven't account for. this distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft. and just to read you this passage here, everybody's talking these days about tammany men gro