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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I hear you, and it certainly can be a component of a strong campaign, see Kathy Tovo, Jackie Goodman (RIP), and Pio Renteria. But to your point, it’s a very narrow path unless you have a shitload of retired homeowners in the district. As for “GOP coding,” it’s not necessarily a negative (esp in D6) because high propensity Austin city election voters tend to be very focused on local issues, like Taxes. But likewise, the appeal is limited because they also tend to be Democrats. I don’t know what to tell you. Nobody likes to hear it on this thread, but Travis County and Austin (outside of the 2018-2023 leadership vacuum) runs pretty well. I’m just relieved that we didn’t adopt a strong Mayor system. Watson would probably do OK, but in general, well paid professional City Managers and well paid County Judges and Commissioners run a far tighter ship than poorly-paid mayors and council members chosen from a pool of those willing to do a thankless job for nothing, on the basis of whoever performs the most pleasing mouth-noises for the worst people in town.
  2. Because (and I’ve seen private research on this) it mostly doesn’t hang outside of some specific voter groups in specific places. First, among homeowners, City taxes don’t move the needle compared to the other taxing entities, let alone the housing shortage in central Austin and our truly stupendous income inequality, particularly between college graduate+ private sector workers and our massive pool of college graduate+ public sector workers. It works a little for retired, house rich long term residents in places like Hyde Park, Bouldin Creek, near-east Austin and other neighborhoods where they have seen their tax bills skyrocket along with home’s value but live on a fixed income. But more importantly, second, the affordability problem is most acute for renters who would like to buy a home close to where they work, or at least rent one, and can’t. They aren’t looking at the component cost structures, they are looking at the price tag. The shame of it is that she’s the most politically gifted and skilled member of council since 90’s era Kirk Watson. It’s a terrible waste and a real tragedy for the city. She had it all. Nonsense. It’s code for “let the market build more housing.” You don’t know what or who you are talking about. Stop listening to KLBJ-AM.
  3. This is not about this forum or this thread or who anybody wants to win, but generally: this series has really separated the ball knowers from people who just enjoy watching and talking about sports- in media, at work, online, etc.
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  7. @Pods - I want to acknowledge your post, and do not challenge any of it. In fact, I hesitated to hit submit in part because of my awareness of the dark reality that the LDS (and for that matter most centralized and hierarchical faiths and denominations) go to great lengths to obscure, and I hoped not to pick at the scabs of anyone’s personal trauma or bad experiences. I apologize if that’s what I’ve done here.
  8. “… and that little boy, who nobody liked, grew up to be Mike Lee. Now you know the rest of the story.”
  9. I have known a lot of Mormons. Most of them are the salt of the earth, the best, most kindly neighbors and per capita probably the happiest people there are.
  10. Jennifer Griffin looking for another involuntary vacation, I see
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  12. @Anastasis gotta be cooking up the Citizen Kane of Both Sides posts right now
  13. More of this: And then Tina Smith does what a normal person would do and directly confronts Mike Lee 1:1, Washington stunned
  14. Agreed. We’re closer to a deployment of active duty troops on American soil and a suspension of habeas corpus than we are to normal.
  15. This is your brain on DSA.
  16. This post deserved more love. “Moderate” implies that the real world exists in the same universe as bizarro world, and it does not. The problem with the Reaganomics a lot of you grew up believing in is not that the GOP has taken it too far- the problem is that it was based on a fantasy and never worked. It’s the same reason I jumped on @TwiceHorn for saying the 2017 trade war with China sort of worked. That’s “moderate” framing. Democrats cannot be moderate in the fight for the integrity of the constitution and the non-negotiable rights and dignity of every human being who lives under its remit. We fight for the real human beings that inhabit the real world of factual reality, and in this moment that is very radical indeed.
  17. Dems made three big mistakes with Tim Walz 1) they overplayed the word “weird,” because they didn’t understand that there was nothing special about it- the magic was just the refreshing sound of plain, unrehearsed speaking in politics. 2) they apologized for his misstatements and got on the back foot about his rank at retirement. They should have attacked and shamed the media whenever they asked about it. 3) He didn’t light up JD Vance the way Tim Ryan did.
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  19. You’re a very decent human being @pyrohornIII
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