Orange County, Los Angeles.

Santa Ana City.

Built in the 19th century Garden Park community.

Inside an exquisite and compact French Gothic castle manor building.

Conference hall.

As Winnie's deputy, he was once a county councillor in Orange County. Of course, Gussett was not an idiot. If he were an idiot, he would not have been sent by the Adams family to assist Winnie.

After Winnie made his position and said Abel's name, the old politician immediately understood Abel's identity.

Facing a son-in-law of the Adams family, he is still a terrible billionaire. He has changed his previous rudeness and indifference.

I made a secret decision in my heart to be a supporting actor. But now, facing Abel's proposal, in the theme of Winnie's campaign, I proposed a theme of improving the firefighting in Orange County.

He couldn't help but hesitate: "Firefighting... is indeed a very good topic, but funding is likely to become a problem."

Speaking of this, we have to talk about American firefighting.

Firefighting in America...

How to say it?

In the words of China, it should be considered a temporary worker contracting system. The fire brigade here is not only a rare official fire brigade formed by governments at all levels.

Most of the remaining ones are contracted with civilians and the government, privately contracted and established firefighting companies.

The firefighters here have extremely high salaries. After just starting their job, their average annual salary can be as high as more than 40,000 US dollars. A firefighter who has been working for three years will not be less than the annual salary of 80,000 US dollars, and the longer the salary, the higher the salary. The highest one is even an exaggerated salary of 200,000 US dollars.

This also led to almost all firefighters here for life. After all, the salary is so high that no one is willing to give up the job. Unless they can't do it, no one will be willing to leave.

Firefighters have such high salaries, and many fire brigades or firefighting companies are still private. Firefighters have to make money, and firefighters have high salaries. Where does this money come from?

The wool always comes from the sheep.

Firefighters want to make money, and firefighters’ wages are high, so this money is naturally provided by those who report fire alarm calls.

Simply put, excluding the scarce firefighting force of the government, if the rest is required to be dispatched by the fire brigade, please pay the money...

Generally speaking, there will be fire insurance in the insurance. As long as the insurance is paid, the fire brigade comes to rescue the disaster, the fire brigade's compensation will naturally be paid by the insurance company.

But if you don't pay insurance and don't have money to the fire brigade...

Unless there is a government-established fire brigade nearby who has time, come and save you.

otherwise……

hehe.

Please give your last look at your house and admire the beautiful appearance of them turning into ashes in the flames, because you won't see them later.

I have said so much to explain one thing, that is, it is very costly to do a good job in firefighting here. The cost of forming a fire brigade or firefighting company is no less than that of forming an elite ground light weapons force.

Except for some governments in areas with rich fiscal revenue, few local governments have their own fire brigades.

For example, if a fire occurs in the slums where Lao Mo and Lao Hei live, either wait until the state government’s small firefighting forces arrive to rescue the disaster, or spend money to hire those private firefighting companies themselves, or...

Please look at your house and disappear in the beauty of the flames!

Gusit now raises this question, and playing the campaign theme of firefighting is very expensive!!

It doesn't matter if you are not elected yet, so it doesn't matter if you are elected, but if you are elected, as a county councillor, but if you fail to fulfill your original promise, you will often only be able to serve for one term and even step down early under the attack of your competitors.

The leeks are not that easy to cheat.

After Gusit asked this question.

Others also raised questions.

"Improving firefighting power in the Orange County area? This is indeed a good topic. But no one dares to raise it because even if a financially wealthy government like Orange County is invested in firefighting, the fiscal budget will be a big problem."

"Yes...even if we don't fulfill our performance after we are successfully elected, at least we have to show it in this regard now. But it will cost a lot to cooperate with those firefighting companies."

"Firefighting is good, but it's too difficult."

"yes……"

"I actually thought about it, but it's too difficult to mention it."

“…”

The doubts and questions of the people are also Winnie's questions. There is no doubt that in the Los Angeles area, if anyone really raises the problem of fire prevention by fire forces, the people of California who are tortured by wildfire problems will definitely vote for that person.

The premise is that this guy really fulfilled his promise!

On the contrary, if you don't keep your word.

It is difficult to continue to survive in politics.

Winnie whispered: "Do you have any specific ideas? Dear."

Abel thought for a while and asked, “How many political contributions are expected to be in the team now?”

Political donations.

As the name suggests, it means that money dedicated to politics is dedicated to politics. It means that individuals or groups engaged in campaign activities or other political-related activities accept movable property, real estate, not as much as the consideration, debt exemption or other economic benefits provided by the individual or group that is engaged in election activities or other political-related activities.

In China, this is something that you don’t have to think about. Because there is no real election except the village chief.

But in Europe and the United States.

Especially in America, which is a superb American, where the politics of money is very good, there are the most patterns and patterns of political donations.

From the presidential election with the highest rank to the election of some district councillors with the lowest rank, it cannot be said that it has been 100% in previous years, but the party with high basic political contributions will always have a winning rate of more than 80%.

Facing Abel's questions about political donations.

Winnie hasn't answered yet.

Gusit, who is the assistant of her campaign team next to her, immediately replied softly, "So far, we have raised about $1.45 million."

Abel nodded.

This $1.45 million is a little small.

He asked Gusette again: "Who is Winnie's opponent? How many political donations have they raised? Can you find these?"

Gusit looked like he was seeking credit, and he replied with a smile: "This time, there are many people competing for the position of this county councillor! Not to mention the two guys like the Party and the Donkey Party, some other political parties also participated! There are also three non-party people like Ms. Winnie!"

"There are about 2 million US dollars on the Elephant Party, and the donkey Party is almost the same. The remaining political parties and non-partisans, the highest one, has reached 3.21 million US dollars. He is a local entrepreneur in Orange County... The least and worst one, only 860,000, is a black lawyer who has climbed out of the slum."

Gusit really fits his identity as an assistant to the campaign team in terms of intelligence in these campaigns and does a good job.

As for why there are so many people fighting for a county council member in Orange County, of course, it is because the rewards are too generous.

The legendary experience of the mayor of New York was brought up by many middle-aged and lower-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-middle-

Moreover, America is actually not just two parties like the Party and the Donkey Party... Just like in China, there is not only one party, but also other democratic parties for decoration.

The same goes for America.

The difference is that there are many miscellaneous fish parties here.

These gangs cannot join in the elections of presidential elections, midterm elections, and governor elections. However, in some small local elections, sometimes these small parties and non-partisans often win.

This is also the Americans' favorite freedom of election...

For this situation.

Abel responded with him.

If we really have freedom of elections, it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to elect a president for Mao. And this number is getting bigger and bigger, from tens of millions to one or two billion US dollars in the past to more than 300 million US dollars in the Aoguanhai era. To the unreliable era, the combined political contributions of the two presidential candidates exceeded 1 billion US dollars!

It is estimated that after another one or two terms, it is likely that the election political contribution of a single presidential candidate will exceed 1 billion US dollars!

In front of money.

How about equality?

After thinking for a while, Abel looked at everyone and whispered: "To win any election!! There are only two things, the first is money; the second is what is it, and I don't even know what is it!"

This sentence was not created by him. It was said by the financial giant Mark Hanna, who once used a large amount of political contributions to help McKinley win the 1896 presidential election in the late 19th century.

Among the people present, except for Gussett, an elderly politician, no one else who can join Winnie's team will be politically tyrants.

Of course they all know where this sentence comes from.

Now such a famous wealth oligarch is still the boyfriend of his employer Winnie, who said this.

What does this mean? Of course, there is no need to talk nonsense!

Everyone's eyes lit up!

Thinking of the team secretly being pushed by a terrifying giant like the Adams family; there is also an open billionaire who has full financial support to win this election.

They have a hundred times confidence!

In the face of money, any campaign theme is actually false. If you have enough money, even if it is an unrealistic campaign theme, you can rely on spending money to create a satisfactory result!

Now the rich are actually willing to play, and they also want to play with the fire fighting theme!

Then let’s play with the rich!

Anyway, the rich are rich!

After Abel said this sentence by Mark Hanna, a 19th-century financial giant.

For Abel's campaign to prevent wildfires that occur every year in California.

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Chapter completed!