Thread by @mateosfo

i made a funny blooper tweet last night, thankfully have friends like @IDoTheThinking & @daguilarcanabal to make fun of me when that happens but to reiterate:

No candidate for local office runs on NIMBYism, especially if they're a NIMBY. They run like YIMBYs.

There's a reason.

Poll after poll shows a supermajority of Californians are either natural YIMBYs, or YIMBY-adjacent. Californians of all backgrounds/income levels want more housing that lets them drive less.

The sad part: Like most Americans, most Californians are checked out of local politics.

So, every four years we go through this stupid exercise where SuperNIMBY city councilors like @SophieHahnBerk make these outrageously false claims about how much housing they supported, when anyone who's ever attended a city council meeting knows she's exactly the opposite.

We're getting closer to being able to just chuck them out of office, but these things take time. If there's one thing I dream of this year, it's that we focus on helping our friends and neighbors understand this dynamic.

They'll believe you.

If everyone gets 5 of their friends/neighbors to understand how their city leader who claims to be pro-housing is actually a died-in-the-wool NIMBY, we can start taking seats.

It's work. But there are rewards.

And to fix the blooper: Sophie's opponent is Todd Andrew and he's so grassroots he doesn't have a website, but he's a renter, is very pro-housing, and would transform housing and transit politics on the council.