Comment by cogman10

Because he represents a huge threat to power.

He's showing that government can be efficient. It can help people. People can actually like their local governments. And that is completely counter to the politics of these rags and their funders.

They want to talk about how government can't work, will always be inefficient, and how it must be cut.

The people who own these papers know that the obvious solution to a lot of societal problems is "tax the rich, build out social programs" and they desperately don't want that message to get out. It makes it a lot harder to setup gig and gambling economies.