I though Moliga might survive, but the anger on so many issues that the board engendered swamped them all.
And Boudin should be worried, tho' different coalition pushing for his recall. All incumbents, frankly. @sfbos in particular should pull its head out of ass. It won't.
Every *single* precinct voted to recall Collins, except two, both of which have tiny voting/overall populations (as in 2 votes in one on west side, 12 votes in one in south side).sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/…
Lopez and Moliga got just over 50% in a few parts of the Mission, which not surprising, but nowhere else.
As an aside: the Chron's data game has gotten so good.
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1/Hey, I wrote about the San Francisco school board recall. tl;dr it's a lot more complicated, and more local, than a lot of the takes floating around would imply: motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
2/ Whether you're seeped in the SF school board controversies or new to them, I hope this will add some context motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
3/ Is this one of those things you have to say (probably) or an actual fact. 🤔
quasi obsessed with this logo/bug at NYT. How they took the five rings and made three podiums (blue, red, green), a medal (yellow), and used the black for the "Beijing" slug.
As @ReadyDavidM notes, you can also read this as 2-0-2-2🤯
The five rings represent a 1913 take on the five inhabited continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania*, and the Americas**.
*aka Australia, NZ
**Europeans downgraded us a whole continent. Even though arguably Europe is merely a peninsula of Asia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_s…
Once again, the @sfbos—particularly @AaronPeskin and @conniechansf—is doing everything in its power to ensure we are locked in a permanent state of not enough housing, pushing rents and evictions and homelessness ever higher. Just insane. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/May…
When you insure that no housing developments are built—even when 25% or more of units are affordable—you are not being progressive. You're throwing a can of gasoline on a regional crisis of epic proportions and benefiting the rich most of all.
If you live in Oakland and you wonder why rents there have gone through the roof, look to @sfbos (and all the towns on the peninsula)
3/ There is no more vital topic, and we don't silo it off from the rest of the newsroom, or treat it like an afterthought. But we want candidates to tell us how they'd like to approach the beat in 2022. motherjones.com/jobs/climate-r…
1/ Attn screenwriters & true crime podcasters: the further down this rabbit hole you go, the more insane this story gets. Top line is that this guy, a rape suspect, fakes his own death, flees to Scotland, where he's found on a ventilator for Covid. But... nytimes.com/2022/01/13/us/…
2/ a few minutes of Googling unearths so much more. he claimed that he was abused in RI's child welfare system. Became a state legislative page at 14. There a state rep felt so bad he offered to adopt him. He was waived off by a family judge (!!)
3/ Do you know how sus you have to be for a family court judge to warn a state rep not to adopt you? I mean... (also, the judge's name is Jeremiah Jeremiah? That's just insanely on the nose, writers.)
1/ @daveweigel is a great reporter, and no piece for a national audience can summarize a 2+ multifront debate but from where I sit, couple of things this misses washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
2/ First, I think it's a mistake to look at the SFUSD recall as mostly/just a progressive vs moderate debate. There are a lot of very left people who've had it with the school board.
3/ Nor are people who are pro SFUSD recall necessarily aligned with the Boudin recall. Some are, some aren't. Lots of people passionately care about one and don't really care about the other.