What happens when politics is your side hustle?

I'm here with Padukamea Brandi Harlas talking about the economics of public service.

This is Sarah from the Left and Beth from the Right.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics, no shouting, no insults, plenty of the ones.

Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Pantsuit Politics.

Today I'm here with Padukamea Brandi Harlas.

And we are going to talk about when politics is your side hustle.

We were inspired by a topic.com article that we'll put in the show notes called

when politics is your side hustle.

And also by all the really interesting conversation going on around Congresswoman-elect

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her sort of talking about how she can't really afford to live in DC yet

and all the the ins and outs of how much Congress people get paid, how much civil servants get paid,

or yeah, local public servants get paid.

And so we thought we would come over here on Pantsuit Politics and Share.

Our conversation about when politics is your side hustle.

Welcome Mayor.

Hi, thank you for having me.

So first off, I thought we could talk about how much you and I make as a Mayor in a city commissioner

in quote unquote part time jobs.

Mayor, how many hours a week do you think you work at this quote unquote part time job?

Well recently I started tracking my time like you suggested with life cycle.

And it turns out that in just my physical location, I'm around 45 to 50 hours a week.

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