The attack mailers, of course, have nothing to do with healthcare policy, nor with charter school policy. 7/
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Instead, they are almost exclusively character attacks tone-policing Beckles over the proceedings of Richmond City Council meetings. 8/
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The sole policy issue I've gotten an anti-Beckles mailer on centers a quote so selective as to nearly invert its meaning. Time and again, in debates, including on my show, Beckles has said "California doesn't have a housing crisis--it has an affordable housing crisis."
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[Per the state's figures, this is true. We have a suplus of housing affordable to high-income people, but massive shortages of housing for everyone else. (The market only tends to build for the top.)] 10/pic.twitter.com/Yf5Tt1STYX
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The attack mailer (I'd post a pic, but it already went out in the recycling) lopped off the second half of Beckles' quote, and accused her of saying "We don't suffer from a housing shortage crisis." 11/
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(Wicks hasn't done much to distance herself from those attacks. She explains why in this profile by
@Frannydink for@berkeleyside ) 12/ https://www.berkeleyside.com/2018/10/25/buffy-wicks-looks-to-grassroots-organizing-as-the-key-to-winning-assembly-district-15 …pic.twitter.com/kAKoHypELZ
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When I asked Wicks about her campaign money -- the vast majority of which is from out-of-district donors--she said it was from the "Obama alumni network" (She worked on Obama's campaigns, and in his administration). This is narrowly true. 13/
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But it does nothing to explain why pro-charter and medical-industry PACs are pouring even more independent money into helping her than she's raised herself. 14/
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Truth is: Republicans have become such a minor consideration in California politics, that state policy gets determined by the political differences between Democrats. 15/
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Who's in a single, safely-Democratic Assembly seat could determine: *whether California passes a bill that commits the state to creating a single payer healthcare system *whether the legislature lifts state-level restrictions on local rent control ... 16/
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Running a single payer bill like this one is pointless https://static.theintercept.com/amp/california-single-payer-organizers-are-deceiving-their-supporters-its-time-to-stop.html …
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