#253: Local government, building a strong town, and bitcoin on the balance sheet with Mayor Scott Conger

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Join Marty as he sits down with the Mayor of Jackson Tennessee, Scott Conger, to discuss:

- Being the 3rd Mayor of Jackson in his family

- The day to day of leading a small city

- How Mayor Conger approaches taxes for the city

- How Mayor Conger became interested in bitcoin

- Bitcoin's role in local government

- Local v. Federal government

- "If not me, then who?"

- much more

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Transcript

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0:00.0	So, freaks, it's your boy Marty Bent here to introduce this episode of Tales from the Crypt.
0:03.9	I had the pleasure of sitting down with Mayor Scott Conger from Jackson, Tennessee,
0:08.9	to talk about his recent foray into Bitcoin, but more focused on what it's like running a city,
0:17.8	the problems that mayors face, the type of solutions they try to bring forth for their local
0:24.1	communities, the difference between politicians at the local level versus the federal level,
0:29.6	the distance at the federal level has from the information source of local communities
0:35.6	and how they really can't affect, or they can't
0:41.3	affect it, but they can't effectively allocate capital, I guess is what you would say, to these
0:47.4	local communities. They take broad brush approaches to every city.
0:55.9	They treat every city as fungible when it's not.
1:00.0	So this episode focused a lot on local governance and turning towards that,
1:04.6	especially in times of distress like we've had in last year with COVID.
1:10.5	It's an interesting episode in terms of getting some insight
1:13.6	into what it was like for the mayor of a relatively small city
1:18.8	during this trying time.
1:20.6	This is brought to you by our good friends at the motherfucking cash-up.
1:32.1	If you're listening to this on Wednesday, May 19th, when it was recorded and posted,
1:37.9	in the middle of a pretty sizable dump here, apparently a lot of exchanges are going down.
1:39.7	Again, this is anecdotal, anecdotal.
1:45.4	That's what the freaks are tweeting at me and saying to me in our Sphinx chat, but apparently a lot of the exchanges are down. Cash app has been one of the stall where it's that has allowed you freaks
1:52.5	to stack sats during this massive dip. I think there's a lot of freaks out there stacking the dip
1:58.0	right now. And apparently cash apps, one of the only apps working right now.
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