Chapter 104: Gotham Long Pair (Medium)
The staff who reviewed the candidates for the election almost threw out the information in their hands when they saw the name on the first page of the materials submitted by Gotham.
Gotham's old godfather is going into politics????
Of course, calm down, it's not impossible, let's put it this way, Falcone's age, although it is a bit old as a gang leader, but that's because the gang changes quickly, and very few gang leaders can sit in this position for so many years, so Falcone is very special.
But when it comes to politics, there are a lot of people of Vercone's age, the average age in Congress is now in their 50s, and there are no shortage of old politicians in their seventies and eighties.
At the very least, if he wants to be the mayor of Gotham City and then the state legislator of New Jersey, no one must be able to stop him.
After becoming a state legislator, if the Wayne Group is willing to continue to help him run for office, it is not impossible to enter Congress and even go one step higher.
But this mayoral election was originally to clean up Roy's gangster mayor-style speech, which is good, if Falcone runs and is elected and becomes the mayor of Gotham City, it will be equivalent to releasing a loach and catching a great white shark.
The state legislators are convinced that Falcone will not make such arrogant statements as his godson, but the problem is that it is better to make arrogant statements!
The king with a strong mouth is annoying at best, and the first national service is terrible!
If Falcone really became mayor, then the entire above-earth and underworld of Gotham City would be in his hands.
How difficult the old godfather is to deal with has been tested by countless people with their lives.
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The state legislators had to make a hurried call to Falcone's estate, and then to the relief that the old godfather seemed to be only there to show support for his godson, and not really wanted to run.
The godfather's own son, Falcone Jr., told them that his father was old and had now set out to retire and had no intention of entering politics.
This news undoubtedly relieved everyone, after all, Roy's mayorship may be a small fight, but if Falcone enters the political arena, it may be an unimagined path.
With this coming out, state legislators have had to step up their scrutiny of Gotham's mayoral candidates.
Then they found that finding one of these candidates who could actually be mayor was almost as difficult as digging for gold in.
But anyone with a normal brain knows that being mayor of Gotham doesn't last long, so there is no need to say what kind of people will sign up.
Of the 23 applications submitted, 19 were Gotham's famous gang bosses, and 3 of the remaining 4 were underage, the youngest of whom was 6 years old, and the last one was a cat raised at the Gotham Gold Cup Bar.
What's even more laughable is that among all the information, only this cat has filled in all the information completely, and most of the others can't write anything less than two bottles of vodka.
To really find a candidate for mayor in these materials, the state legislators are really big.
First of all, even if they can pick it out, whether that person can understand the rules of voting is a question.
Secondly, if he is really chosen, whether he will scold more ugly than Roy is a bigger question.
The most important thing is that if they choose one of them, and the other gangster families who have a grudge against him, feel that this election is a favoritism, then they will definitely be shot in the back and commit suicide.
As it turns out, Gotham is a complete mud pit, and anyone who has anything to do with the city will not end well, and the state legislators are now completely struggling to ride the tiger.
Those who can choose are not willing to come, and those who are willing to come cannot choose, so what else can be done?
The state legislators thought about it, and they realized that it was better to let Roy continue to be the king.
Come to think of it, Roy didn't use more than 10 profanity words in a whole speech, but those candidates, in just 300 words, conservatively used more than 100 words of profanity, which if any of them became mayors, I'm afraid all the members of Congress would have to protect their mothers.
In desperation, the election turned into a formality again, and Roy did not go through more than a week from stopping the review to becoming a candidate again, to the announcement of the voting results, and being re-elected as mayor.
The impact is huge.
The leaders of this gang city are suffocated, they have long been tired of the reporters and critics who stand and talk without backache, and when it comes to spraying people, these gang leaders who have been in the market since childhood have never been afraid of anyone.
The first to spray was not the coastal cities close to Gotham, but Detroit.
If you want to talk about the worst city in the history of modern industrial development, you have to mention Detroit.
Between 1960 and 1970, the oil crisis caused the auto industry to take a heavy turn, and the automobile city of Detroit was transformed from a thriving industrial metropolis into a displaced, gang-infested mess overnight.
Because Detroit's economy is declining so fast that it hasn't even been more than a generation, the people who are alive now are living evidence of Roy's theory as they watched how this thriving city came to an end.
When Detroit fell, there was no savior, and the ordinary people who had lost order here overnight were almost instantly plunged into hell, and the lights of gunfire erupted from countless Detroit nights, as bright as the lights of once-thriving factories, and they continued all night.
In short, among them, the official staff, gang leaders, and civil representatives all stood up to denounce each other, and then united to scold the critics who stood without backache, and pointed the finger at the Congress.
Schiller was a little surprised by such a violent reaction, and the draft he gave Roy had already stripped out some of the radical debates as much as possible, and also avoided some sensitive topics.
In fact, the purpose of this speech is only to pave the way for the later urban alliance and industrial transformation and upgrading, simply put, to fight a war, first raise the flag.
It is to give these criminal capitals in the same situation a reasonable excuse to unite.
Since it's not our fault that we're rotten, what's wrong with us joining forces to make money?
But Schiller didn't expect that this was actually a sharp point in pointing out the biggest dilemma of the economic development of the eastern United States in this era.
The cycle of economic crisis brought about by the fundamental contradictions of the system will lead to round after round of unemployment, and the unemployed will not be able to be effectively controlled and dealt with, and will spontaneously form associations, and then turn into gangs and other organizations.
The presence of gangs seriously threatens the security of the local area, which in turn makes it impossible for investors to develop in a safe environment, and then they will usher in the withdrawal of capital, and new investors will not be willing to come because of the bad reputation of the city, resulting in a more and more recession, more and more unemployed, and gangs are becoming more and more rampant.
The prosperous maritime trade on the east coast naturally provided the soil for the development of illegal industries, and once the gangs flourished, they naturally followed by all kinds of illegal industries.
The prosperity of illegal industries will instinctively exclude those normal industries, which will lead to the further failure of normal industries to develop, so the city will fall into an endless dark circle.
Most cities do not have a man like Falcone, who can find a way to bring about an evil order with extreme violence in a vicious circle that is getting worse and worse, and then through this order to bring profits, feeding the entire social fabric itself.
Therefore, most of these cities cannot be like Gotham, although evil but rich, most of them are chaotic and poor, and they are crazy on the verge of bankruptcy.
The grievances of these city people are definitely much greater than that of Gotham, after all, Gotham is actually among the top few in the United States in terms of infrastructure, population density, and living conditions, except for the weather and ecosystem here, which is a bit weird, but it is actually a very modern and prosperous metropolis.
But this is not the case in a post-industrial city like Detroit, where the rapid development of the automobile industry has brought about an imbalance in industry, as well as the backwardness of the city's other infrastructure and human environment.
People have found that in the past, it was okay to have money, but now that they don't have money, this backwardness will bring all kinds of troubles and make their lives worse.
The so-called lack of superiority, more than inferiority, Schiller's speech from the perspective of Gotham and Chicago actually still has a Versailles flavor.
Chicago and Gotham are already the best in this type of city, and even Detroit is not bad, at least it was once glorious, and most people still have a little foundation in their hands, and those smaller cities are even more sad.
Almost overnight, the situation in the major cities on the East Coast became a little uneasy, and they felt that the mob mayor had a point, and if no one came to save us, then we would find a way to save ourselves.
What Schiller didn't expect was that the original goal he set, that is, in the Trinity system of Gotham, Chicago and Miami, the initial cooperation between Gotham and Chicago was quite effective, but before he could start the next step, that is, the tandem of Miami, gangsters from another city came to the door first, that is, Imperial City.
Imperial City is also a city unique to DC Comics, the hometown of superhero hunter Paul, and a megacity on the East Coast.
Of course, the situation in Imperial City is certainly much better than in Gotham, there is still a basic order here, and the gangsters are part of the city, but not all.
But like all other East Coast cities, the black industry is the bulk of the revenue, but it's best known for tourism and casinos.
The Imperial City is a city with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate, a long history of gambling, large and small casinos have become part of the tourism industry, and the economy has been very good in recent years, even when most cities are going against the grain, it is still making steady progress.
The mayor of Imperial City also has an inexplicable relationship with the number one gangster here, after all, it is almost impossible for something like a casino not to have a relationship with the gang.
The day after Roy was reinstated, he received a call from the mayor of the Imperial City.
They exchanged views on the process of friendly exchanges between Gotham and Chicago on the phone, and the two sides put forward their own views on the future development of their respective cities, and reached a preliminary agreement.
While reflecting on the painful history of the East Coast port city, the two mayors also looked forward to a prosperous future, and both sides expressed their wishes for a bright future of win-win cooperation.
Roy will also be on a tour and visit to Imperial City next month to see if there's anything Gotham can learn from.
After hearing the news, the twelve families said that everyone has a responsibility to develop Gotham, and they are willing to make a modest contribution to this inspection.
The potential of the gambling industry is limitless, and there is also a basis for the development of tourism, once a black industry like the one is not feasible, gambling and tourism are the best direction for urban transformation.