If Emil’s father didn’t own most everything and everyone in Terre Bluff, Emil would probably be delivering pizzas or stocking shelves instead of holding the title of mayor. Only a well-funded, unethical campaign could put a man with Emil’s level of incompetence in office, but neither funding nor mimicking his father's lack of ethics won him the respect or independence he wanted from his father. When his nephews take his father’s Jaguar for a joyride and it ends up crashing through the front of a grocery store, Emil is determined to find a fall guy for the calamity, hoping to finally win daddy’s heart. If only he were better at it . . . Political parody loaded with symbolism.