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One is her father, an industrial salesman who she has said was once fired after speaking up about his faith on the job.

Ads for factory hands, salesmen and machinists took off, while old jobs, like nailers, faded into distant memories.

Xerox created a new, better machine only to have it sell less well than the inferior older ones—until they figured out the salesmen got a bigger commission for selling the older one.

“It’s not suitable for a magic trick,” one salesman told the agents.

But Mamdani appeared to listen as Rechler pressed his concerns about the need for safety and public order for the city to thrive, and the importance of having a mayor who is also a salesman.