At the start of this year, Jane Kim was fearmongering about highrises in the Sunset District at West Portal and Leno was absolutely silent on any pro-housing policies. One London Breed victory and vindication of yimby later, the explicit nimbyism wasn't as evident with the progs.
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Replying to @markasaurus @ValisJason and
I don't either, but media does and thats what many candidates were reading. YIMBYs had been vindicated with Breed's "yes in my backyard" speech and explicitly backing building housing. Yimbys got a lot of media attention and the progs certainly noticed.
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Replying to @markasaurus @IDoTheThinking and
Breed was actually initially anti-housing and was making anti-housing comments in the beginning of the campaign but when she realized she'd lose the d2d/canvassing volunteers from YIMBY core, she changed her message.
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And then I think that reverberated into prog strategy. Matt, unlike Jane, seemed super careful about not being positioned as anti-housing.
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And then, like I said, Prop. C was such a good campaign because they understood - in a way unlike previous prog campaigns and like what I've been saying all along - that the tech industry itself and the workers it brings are not a homogeneous entity.
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they literally held tech workers-for-Prop C rallies and then other kinds of rallies with like... medical professionals for Prop C etc.
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Yes. It wasn’t a populist attack against the villain tech or ron Conway. It was straight forward, connected to larger goals shared across the community.
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the thing about Ron is people who know him know that he actually does a lot of stuff/fundraising for national Dem/prog infrastructure. So the caricature of him seems bizarre and off-base to people who know him.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ValisJason and
the folks who opposed Prop. C, well... I'm not really sure what Dorsey actually does for progressive politics nationally, so
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He seems fond of not blocking Nazis...
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