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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Robert White wanted the schools to be shut down even longer. And if you looked at the debates, he was against having more police to deal with crime, pulling out the old progressive canard of claiming to want to have evidence based policies to address the root cause of the problem.

Except, schooling is possibly the most important support that is given to families, and the closure of schools (closures he wanted more of) _is_ one of the main roots of the problem. And then after causing more criminality by doing that, he doesn't want more police to protect us from the effects of the kinds of policies he supports.

This seems to be a problem with all of the progressive politicians, they're always claiming evidence based solutions, but they end up pushing whatever craziness their activist base demands. I'm no fan of Bowser, but why should I vote for someone who's even worse.[/quote]

This. I wanted nothing more than to get Bowser out of office in the last election, but White was WORSE than Bowser on most key issues, and there was no evidence he would have been more effective at the management side of the job either.

It was the same with council chairman. I think Mendo is corrupt and in Bowser's pocket at this point, and I think Erin Palmer seems like a nice and competent person. But she was a huge lightweight for that role and she had nothing encouraging to say on the major issues -- schools and crime. This is true of all the progressive candidates -- they generally lack relevant experience and they like to sidestep the really knotty issues with some vague platitudes about equity that don't actually address anyone's concerns. They are afraid of pissing off a small group of frankly insane activists in DC who think school closures are awesome and have no negative impacts, and that we shouldn't prosecute any crime at all until we solve all racism. It makes them extra ineffective at actually DOING anything.[/quote]

This is a rather reductive discussion of Palmer.  Her points were primarily based on good governance and good, open public processes.  She also happens to believe that racism is bad, corruption is bad, and that we need to take care of those left behind.  Somehow, she (and others in last year's primaries and likely next year's, too) were branded as anti-cop lightweights.  Even her federal attorney role was used against her, despite that being better than whatever Mendo did 30 years ago prior to being meh.

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