This one sticks in my mind, but the evident SFYimby goal of breaking SF's progressive bloc matters more.https://twitter.com/SFyimby/status/658753929711235072?s=03 …
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Replying to @MBridegam @whateversville
Counterpoint: leading progressives did not run a candidate against Ed Lee
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Replying to @ClaraJeffery @whateversville
I don't get that either, but think it followed from previous defeats at the City Hall level.
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Replying to @MBridegam @whateversville
I think it's because they didn't want to be put on spot for standing by a guy accused of spousal abuse.
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Replying to @ClaraJeffery @whateversville
SF progressive politics as a whole wasn't shut out of the Mayor's race solely by a few Supes' responses to Mirkarimi's conduct. It was more.
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Chris Daly was cold-shouldered out of town, the Bay Guardian was bought and closed, art/politics havens all over have been evicted.
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This is why it is so sickening to see these yimby portrayals of the old SF progressive/tenant bloc as prosperous, selfish, safe, etc.
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It's an upside-down, twisted portrayal of greedy rent-controlled tenants and elders vs plucky underdog developers and six-figure earners.
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And I truly don't think the yimby pro-apartment movement in the rest of the country understands what the acronym is used to mean here.
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SF does have rich homeowners but they were never in the tenant bloc, & the worst SF yimby spite is toward affordable housing activists.
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If we were actually allied on combatting that, that would be great!
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