So, Georgette Gomez voted to increase the SDPD's budget using CARES Act funds.
The week before the cops had shot protestors, bystanders, the homeless, really anyone they could find with rubber bullets and flashbangs. Shieldwalls and tanks, the whole bit. Woman lost her eye.
Following that, the biggest call-in anyone has ever seen ran for two days straight. Two days of eleven hours apiece of one-minute public testimony before the vote, unanimously in favor of defunding the police. Naturally, these people are democratic voters, or people who don't vote but would vote dem if they were convinced it got them anything.
WTF? So what? It would have passed 7-2 instead of 8-1 if she had voted against it, what would be the purpose of not voting against it? Basically she was worried about our (lame duck, termed out, got his office through electoral chicanery) republican mayor retaliating against her priorities.
Gomez has no backbone, she doesn't believe in shit. She won't stick her neck out for anyone, not even on a symbolic vote with no stakes. She's probably also going to lose, and badly, and shit like this is why.
It should be a lesson for any left politician who's thinking about trying to difference split to 'not alienate centrists'.
Pelosi is facing a primary too! Unfortunately, Shahid Buttar's campaign is in disarray after recent staff allegations of mismanagement and an accusation of sexual harassment which Buttar has denied.
Yeah, that campaign has no chance, and that's probably a good thing considering the accusations against him. Pelosi will almost definitely retire next time anyway as she's promised to give up the leadership in 2022, and departing speakers/minority leaders almost never stay in Congress after they give up the leadership. In my view, the far more important priorities for progressives in Congress are a) coalescing behind a leadership candidate for 2022 so the next Democratic leader isn't Hakeem Jeffries, and b) coalescing behind a left-wing/socialist candidate in San Francisco who can make it out of the inevitable 30-person primary that's going to happen when Pelosi retires.
Yeah, I thought of Shahid's run originally as an audition for a free for all primary where everyone on the SF city council, the state reps and senators, and liberal tech bros will all be running for the seat. Shahid would have name recognition and a deep fundraising apparatus to be able to rise above a lot of politicians with limited name recognition. Unfortunately it's clear he has treated people in his campaign (especially women) terribly, and is not the insurgent left challenger needed down the road when Pelosi retires. I hope there are others who have seen the amount of attention and small dollar donors Shahid received this cycle, and are planning to run a leftist, grassroots campaign the next cycle knowing that it is in fact possible. The citadel Democratic districts, the kind of places held by Dellums where being a socialist isn't just doable from an electoral perspective but the voting base enthusiastically supports, need to have better people than neoliberals who are stuck in past ways of doing politics that have never really existed.
It would be really great to see a solid push for a jump past seniority/next-in-line like Grijalva pushed on Natural Resources a few years back to leapfrog to the chairmanship. If they can get enough outside advocacy and whip the votes, there's a real chance in the House to shepherd in leadership prepared for the moment we live in as opposed to, uh, Hakeem Jeffries...
So, Georgette Gomez voted to increase the SDPD's budget using CARES Act funds.
The week before the cops had shot protestors, bystanders, the homeless, really anyone they could find with rubber bullets and flashbangs. Shieldwalls and tanks, the whole bit. Woman lost her eye.
Following that, the biggest call-in anyone has ever seen ran for two days straight. Two days of eleven hours apiece of one-minute public testimony before the vote, unanimously in favor of defunding the police. Naturally, these people are democratic voters, or people who don't vote but would vote dem if they were convinced it got them anything.
Only one vote against, and that councilman, Ward, was just mad that his priorities weren't put first, he could have cared less about police racism and brutality. Gomez, president of San Diego City Council, said she didn't vote against it because she 'didn't have the votes.' https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/gomez-says-she-would-have-cut-police-budget-but-didnt-have-the-votes/
WTF? So what? It would have passed 7-2 instead of 8-1 if she had voted against it, what would be the purpose of not voting against it? Basically she was worried about our (lame duck, termed out, got his office through electoral chicanery) republican mayor retaliating against her priorities.
Gomez has no backbone, she doesn't believe in shit. She won't stick her neck out for anyone, not even on a symbolic vote with no stakes. She's probably also going to lose, and badly, and shit like this is why.
It should be a lesson for any left politician who's thinking about trying to difference split to 'not alienate centrists'.
love Tlaib !!
Pelosi is facing a primary too! Unfortunately, Shahid Buttar's campaign is in disarray after recent staff allegations of mismanagement and an accusation of sexual harassment which Buttar has denied.
She is so far refusing to debate.
Yeah, that campaign has no chance, and that's probably a good thing considering the accusations against him. Pelosi will almost definitely retire next time anyway as she's promised to give up the leadership in 2022, and departing speakers/minority leaders almost never stay in Congress after they give up the leadership. In my view, the far more important priorities for progressives in Congress are a) coalescing behind a leadership candidate for 2022 so the next Democratic leader isn't Hakeem Jeffries, and b) coalescing behind a left-wing/socialist candidate in San Francisco who can make it out of the inevitable 30-person primary that's going to happen when Pelosi retires.
Yeah, I thought of Shahid's run originally as an audition for a free for all primary where everyone on the SF city council, the state reps and senators, and liberal tech bros will all be running for the seat. Shahid would have name recognition and a deep fundraising apparatus to be able to rise above a lot of politicians with limited name recognition. Unfortunately it's clear he has treated people in his campaign (especially women) terribly, and is not the insurgent left challenger needed down the road when Pelosi retires. I hope there are others who have seen the amount of attention and small dollar donors Shahid received this cycle, and are planning to run a leftist, grassroots campaign the next cycle knowing that it is in fact possible. The citadel Democratic districts, the kind of places held by Dellums where being a socialist isn't just doable from an electoral perspective but the voting base enthusiastically supports, need to have better people than neoliberals who are stuck in past ways of doing politics that have never really existed.
It would be really great to see a solid push for a jump past seniority/next-in-line like Grijalva pushed on Natural Resources a few years back to leapfrog to the chairmanship. If they can get enough outside advocacy and whip the votes, there's a real chance in the House to shepherd in leadership prepared for the moment we live in as opposed to, uh, Hakeem Jeffries...