Actually we had a good crew when I was on the city council. The mayor was the only political hack. He honestly was a pretty decent guy, except he was a ComDem. Western NM was full of them. Registration in that county was 5 Dems to 1 Republican. Rabid mine union country. But in spite of that, some Republican won. The crazies were only 5-10% of the population. They were continually stirring in the crap.
The mayor lost his rabbits foot, got caught in his secretary’s bed, by her husband. He did not come to council meetings for a while, black eye. The local POL king maker dumped him quickly. He was being groomed for high public office.
Some asked me to run for Mayor. I said no very quickly. Did not run for Re-election. Would have been no problem, but my life was complicated enough. I was a wholesale distributor salesman and gone a lot.
Lol lol lol, you should write a book!!