We are overreading too much into individual races - Ho was a weak candidate (no fault of her own, she just was too new to the district), D6 leans progressive and Matt was a uniquely strong candidate, and D2 was a moderate fight
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Honestly, from a coalitional politics perspective, what I think is most interesting is: A) D2 was a proxy fight between urbanist mods and old school mods. Old school won. B) Mods got wrecked downballot: progs swept BART, school board, city college...
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It did - as did I! And I backed several “progressive” school board members. The “moderate” coalition is in chaos
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No on C is strange, because in two prior elections, voters rejected additional funding for homelessness on D and J/K. Probably because they were drowned out by many other competing ballot priorities.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @daguilarcanabal and
Or maybe voters didn't want to pay for homelessness but they were happy to make other people pay for it.
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that's the one thing I didn't like about
@benioff's "you don't pay, I pay" messaging. In the short-term, it sounds good. But in the medium/long-term, I think it's really corrosive. Everyone should feel like they play a part in supporting/caring/paying for the most vulnerable.1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes -
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And then secondly, if you increase the progressivity of the tax base, you're also making it more structurally dependent & less diversified around a very small base of taxpayers, which makes the rev source more volatile and then makes your entire system even more at the whim
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at a small number of taxpayers/interests.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @daguilarcanabal and
As you know few people other than yourself and Jerry Brown give a damn about the narrowness of the tax base.
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