This is what parenting has done to every employer and now the city, while it burns, has to deal w/ a dude going w/ his wife to soccer games. Mayor is not a nine to five job idiot.
What parunt can resist virtue signaling? Is there any situation where a parunt won't flash their parunt card to get out of work? Of course, if they are well-known, it makes it even worse because we all have to hear about it. An attention whore and a parunt is a bad combo.