You can only fight a war on so many fronts, better to just ignore the medallions until you have power. Once you do that the medallions matter less anyway. If

You can only fight a war on so many fronts, better to just ignore the medallions until you have power. Once you do that the medallions matter less anyway. If they tried to fight head on legally they likely would have lost (since that's probably where the taxi companies are strongest and incentivized to spend all of their money to win at any cost).