So true. Governments have lost sight that they exist to serve the people. They are a collectivist solution to managing large projects the population needs. You can take many approaches to that, but that is the fundamental reason we have them.

Otherwise, we don't need them and wouldn't choose to have them.

It was more alluding to the fact that he is a socialist and his interest is in bettering the city rather then enriching himself.

At the very least it is evidence that socialists can govern at least as well as capitalists.

Almost like the propaganda about government workers being inefficient and lazy is capitalist propaganda if the socialist politicians are the ones driving efficiently making government work.