Progressive candidates are now leading in their races - including those championing police reform. (The two YIMBY candidates were crushed.)
The @nytimes published a story last week about the CA primary being referendum on progressive police reform policies. We need a correction.
The @nytimes published a story last week about the CA primary being referendum on progressive police reform policies. We need a correction.
"Chesa Boudin was a referendum on California progressives' policing policies!!,” crowed the @nytimes.
Meanwhile, a city 4-5x larger than San Francisco is handing a progressive who brazenly challenged police budgets with billboards across the city a 15-point lead. #correction
Meanwhile, a city 4-5x larger than San Francisco is handing a progressive who brazenly challenged police budgets with billboards across the city a 15-point lead. #correction
The Chesa recall was a referendum on the power of Big Tech, Big Real Estate and the far-right buying off the votes of a vaguely progressive if increasingly upper middle class electorate. That's a story of San Francisco - not "California."
And even then, Chesa lost his recall by a smaller margin that initial reports suggested - and Kenneth Mejia is winning his citywide race with a larger margin than Chesa lost his
The Sheriff's race is a land of contrasts and deeply compromised choices. But Villanueva's vote slipping every so slightly with every updated ballot count - drifting, I hope, below 30pct by the end - is good. If nothing else, I hope the guy is defeated in November.
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