| It sounds like he worked within the legal constraints of the system he was elected to work within. This kind of discretionary spending authority can used for things that are good, bad, or indifferent. When it gets used to cut through the red tape and buy a new swingset for a neighborhood park, then that's good; nobody complains about that. (Except someone would surely complain about that, but come on man.) And when it gets used to install government tracking systems, that's bad. > How do you have a civil society when the people in power cheat? The problem isn't that the mayor can spend some money. Rather, the problem here is that government tracking systems are completely legal to buy. The laws need adjusted so that government tracking systems are completely illegal, instead. "Yeah, good luck getting the government to do that!" The people of Colorado are free to initiate their own legislation and constitutional amendments and then vote them into force. "But that will never work!" It can work, and it has worked. As just one example, the people did this rather famously, and with good effect, back in 2012 when they legalized recreational weed: https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_Amendment_64,_Regulation_of... |