Entertaining city councilors

Johnny works up a lather over news that city-council candidates will perform in a variety show at the Riverside Theatre Works in Hyde Park next month:

... One city council candidate "says he'll tell jokes and twirl his baton, which he keeps in his campaign vehicle at all times in case of parades." This man should clearly have a large voice in running the city. ... Someone needs to start up some kind of social policy talent show, where the politicians get serious about actual problems for 5 minutes, instead of just flexing their social butterfly/used car salesman muscles.