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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The turnout was tiny. They were booted out by fewer votes than elected them!  That’s why fringe groups love special elections that they gin up, basically they are the only ones voting. [/quote]

You need to update your stats. The total vote has still not been fully counted, but turnout was not tiny and the recall count is now greater than the number of votes when they were elected.

I'm in SF and was a poll worker in this election. I saw a steady stream of Asian voters and moms/dads of all groups.

What the conservatives and liberals miss about this election is the anti-Asian sentiment Trump and his crazy "China virus" talk created a lot of concern in the Asian American community overall. [b]We've had elders attacked here[/b] and there's a lot of fear and anger at being on the receiving end of this right-wing stupidity.

Then these three school board members changed the merit entrance system at Lowell, which has been a cherished path to college and the middle class for many Asian-Americans in SF, at the same time that some (e.g., Collins) expressed flat-out anti-Asian racism from the left-wing POV (e.g., the "house n***ers" comment).

The Asian-Americans in the city that I know have just had it with all of this. They are getting it from both sides and they are done.

We also had really high turnout in the Castro, which no doubt was concerned when these board members refused to appoint a gay dad to a parent's council because he wasn't "diverse enough." Not seeing this particular moment in the post-election analysis, but I certainly think it was part of the vote.

And we had a city full of parents who have struggled to keep their kids on track while they also tried to maintain their employment and health. And did our school board even care about those parents? It sure didn't feel like it. Our mayor at least marshaled some resources to provide learning centers, but where was the school board?? All we heard was how privileged we were because we still had jobs, even as we ate stomach acid trying to meet professional obligations as we home schooled or rushed our depressed teens to therapists with 3-month waiting lists. How much crap were we supposed to happily endure??? I mean, opening schools earlier would have helped, but frankly, if these board members had just been able to show even the tiniest bit of compassion for all parents, not just the ones they perceived as "deserving victims," they would not have been recalled.

Then, on top of that tone-deafness, we have a huge deficit, our superintendent quit from disgust (and the board had to sign a contract promising to treat him civilly just to get him to finish the school year), and the board refused to provide any meaningful resources to the management of the pandemic. How much more incompetent do you have to be?

That said, anyone who thinks this recall was a sign of a nationwide pushback about progressivism is engaged in wishful thinking or stupidity. [/quote]

And 99% of the times the attacker is either black or "progressive."[/quote]

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