I’m too broke to run for mayor.
To officially sign up, get your name on the ballot and be considered a “real candidate,” the filing fee is 2 percent of the mayor’s annual salary. That comes to $5,706.
Now I know that’s not a lot of money, but really it is a lot of money, especially when you consider that it only buys you the ticket that gets you in the door. I know plenty of people who would do a far better job than Ed Lee for whom $5,706 is just too much money. It’s practices like these that continue to make politics a rich person’s game, and it’s hard to get rich people to legislate for anybody other than other rich people when those are the only people they know.
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June 03, 2015