Because you go from nothing, because you live in the hood, to being worth tens of millions of dollars and an eighty room mansion with hanger-ons.
You’re the big man, so you spend big on yourself and your hanger-ons. Then you’re broke in the end.
That’s how I see this mayor. She’s become the big woman, so she takes her hanger-ons on fancy trips and spends millions of dollars on her and her people.
Government of the politicians, by the politicians, for the politicians.