We need more passionate, intelligent people in all levels of local government. And we need higher wages (or wages at all!) for these positions, otherwise they'll only be filled by upper class people with no representation by working class people.
We need to get to publicly funded elections (likely would require overturning cit united).
Sounds like a good first step.
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