Work the Machine

Mayor ACTION

Convert Capital into Delegates. Pay 3 Capital, then place one (from the general supply) on the Delegate Track.

Skip the Delegate Vote at the end of the round (the vote is already committed when this card is played).

NOTE: We recommend placing the NO VOTE token on the Delegate Track to remind players not to draw an additional delegate cube during the End of Round Events.

“Everybody in the game has a piece, and that piece is workable, it is equivalent to capital, it can be used to accrue interest by being invested in such sound conservative enterprises as decades of loyalty to the same Machine. So long as the system progresses, so will one's property be blessed with dividends. But such property can also be used as outright risk capital — one can support an insurgent movement in one's party, even risk the loss of one's primary holding in return for the possibility of acquiring much more.

This, of course, is still politics at city hall, county or state house, this is the politics of the party regular, politics as simple property, which is to say politics as concrete negotiable power— the value of their engagement in politics is at any moment just about directly convertible to cash.”

- Norman Mailer, The Siege of Chicago

Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1966, overlooking the Chicago skyline atop the Daley Center (George Quinn / Chicago Tribune)