It happened a day faster than Bisterne had predicted.
No hearings, no additional review, nothing at all.
Such was the magic of power.
When the will from the very top intervened, all rules automatically made way.
Then, the floodgates of funding swung open.
Meanwhile, Daniel Sanders hadn't been idle in Washington.
He made good on his promise.
The leader of the Progressives leveraged his decades of prestige within the National Union and the Left-wing Camp, personally calling the pension fund managers of the major unions.
"This is an order, and also a request," Sanders said over the phone. "We need this money to prove our path is the right one. Buying Pittsburgh's bonds is buying our own future."
The effect was instantaneous.
Less than two hours after the bond sale opened, the entire five-hundred-million-dollar offering was snapped up.
