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Brazil mayor was shot in 'fake attack' for election boost but lost in landslide

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Is being mayor in Brazil that lucrative that paying $88,000 is ... worth it?

Or is this more about the role / just wanting to be mayor.

This whole plan seems very much not worth it, granted sometimes crime just isn't logical.

Don’t forget to normalize for region. That’s quite a lot of money in Brazil.

A bought out mayor can then siphon out millions of public money through deals etc, so idk

That's the salary but a mayor can hire so many people, like his entire family. So many small cities(and not so small) have entire families that don't do anything other than being relatives to the mayor.

In the US it was a long struggle to abolish that kind of corrupt spoils system [0], although the current administration is trying to bring it back again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

Nepotism and payola in US politics just began this year, or in 2016?

Fucking LOL.

I'm no expert on US politics, but I'm pretty sure yesterday's executive order is unprecedented in this regard:

> Therefore, in order to improve the administration of the executive branch and to increase regulatory officials’ accountability to the American people, it shall be the policy of the executive branch to ensure Presidential supervision and control of the entire executive branch. > > Moreover, all executive departments and agencies, including so-called independent agencies, shall submit for review all proposed and final significant regulatory actions to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Executive Office of the President before publication in the Federal Register.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu...

It's interesting that the Bush family had to all go out to half wit states to get elected somewhere instead of being assigned positions by their father.

Political positions are rarely about the money, they're about the power.

But those two are often closely related...

It wouldn't surprise me if historically people have tried similar-ish strategies of trying to taking advantage of people's "rally behind the flag".

There's various historical examples of people doing extremely silly things for affection or attention.

That said it's utterly disgusting to abuse it.

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