So many issues come down from the fact these people need to campaign to keep their jobs. Imagine if the sewer department operated like this, with engineers fret

So many issues come down from the fact these people need to campaign to keep their jobs. Imagine if the sewer department operated like this, with engineers fretting over if they should actually tear up the street and fix the main or if that would piss off some wealthy donors to their reelection bid, instead of just doing work that is known by domain experts to be unequivocally required according to the realities of the situation.