It goes a little something like this, "Hi common man/woman, I'm a member of the city council. As far as you can tell, my main job seems to be standing on steps somewhere with 10 angry people behind me, grandstanding about problems. Good news, I've just voted in congestion pricing. Which means that for the privilege of getting up at 5:30 am to commute in terrible traffic to your crap job that doesn't pay you enough, you'll have to give the MTA fat cats $15 a day so that they can waste it like they waste billions of dollars a year. You're welcome, thank your local Democrat."