AOC doesn't want to be New York City mayor. Most likely, she has bigger plans - eviltoast
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    1 month ago

    In some ways you have more concentrated power.

    To quote a mayor of NYC: “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.”