Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’?

Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:46PM (#27608417)

It's not really clear to me that being a "black grassroot mayor who understands the needs of the community" is a benefit without any kind of experience managing and operating large organizations.

The operating budget of Baltimore is approximately $4B/year. I can't imagine many companies with that kind of budget that would hire a CEO/COO with Scott's resume to run it.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by AlexTWithBeard on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @03:53PM (#27609268)

The sky will fall before a greedy fat cat corporate CEO will be elected as a public official - no matter what his track record in managing other people's money is.

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Re:Is education no longer the ‘great equalizer’? by oh_sigh on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @04:36PM (#27609982)

Sure - I wasn't saying a corporate CEO would even be the right person to run a large city(though Bloomberg did pretty well relative to the expectations of a NYC mayor), but merely pointing out that businesses with operating budgets of a similar size are much choosier with who they put in charge.

In Baltimore, the democratic mayoral candidate is a shoe-in. So the Democratic mayoral primaries are actually the real election. And Scott bested his opponents in that competition with ~45,000 votes total.

So really only about 7% of the city(pop 620,000) voted for him, but that's just how the system works.

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