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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP: What is this really about? What are the issues that some in CP feel like they wouldn't be able to get their way on if they were put in one ANC versus another?[/quote]
It started with Cheh working through a process many considered rigged where the outcome was designed to limit representation of SF homeowners.

The people who politically benefit and their ideological comrades are now crying foul that those who would have had their representation dimished have been successfully able to restore some of it through a compromise.

This is how politics works and it people don’t understand it and it makes them upset. [/quote]

But what are the actual issues this affects?[/quote]
It’s about representation on ANCs. The “issues” are those of relevance to ANCs. 
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There seems to be a studious effort to avoid talking about the issues.

In general, ANC's don't have a lot of power. However, the one capability they do have is to obstruct things. If you want your neighborhood frozen in time, to reflect the say it was in some past "golden era," the ANC can help. However, the less hyper-local a commission is, the less likely it is to act that way. So the NIMBY's in Foxhall Village don't like being part of a larger ANC that isn't so parochial, and the NIMBY's in Cleveland Park want to all be in the same commission so they can dominate it. [/quote]
Or you can flip that sentiment around and conclude that people with opposing views wanted to create geographic boundaries of representation that they could dominate.

You pretend that any one position is better than the other. If you are position neutral, then you see it is just about power and who executes it. From that perspective, it’s should’ve been obvious to you that you could not engage in an orchestrated power grab without expecting push back. And the reality is that the process by which this power grab was conducted was so obliviously illegitimate that the outcome could not stand.

If you’re smart, this should serve as a political lesson for you that you could learn a lot from. First and foremost, [b]we don’t live in a dictatorship and that’s a good thing. [/b]So you need to learn how to work with people you disagree with in order to achieve the outcomes you want. And most of the time, the changes that you seek will be incremental because that’s how politics works and that’s a good thing.

In retrospect, you should be relieved that our democratic systems did not let you execute what you were trying to accomplish. Because imagine these systems are value neutral, so you must imagine that other people who have different views than you would be able to exploit them just as well. [/quote]

Except when the dictator is doing what you want. In this case, Mendelson has bypassed the Task For report and the efforts of hundreds of residents over the past 5 months nd thousands of hours of meetings, discussion and reearch, and simply cast a map at the whim of one person who has admitted they took nothing of the legally prescribed process into account to create their own map that caters to the status quo.

So you can take your screed and stick it into the Trumpism bucket of hypocrisy.[/quote]

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