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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1394151
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1394151
Rent control is a terrible idea that restricts housing supply, discourages the building of new units, and shrinks the tax base by making real property less valuable.
It’s headed to extinction and may as well not exist as of November 2022.
“Last Week’s Local Elex Results…”
Natch, I’m totes excited to read journo lit from a confab presser spox!
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In the Cleveland mayor’s race, political newcomer Justin Bibb soundly beat City Council President Kevin Kelley. Neither is exactly a “progressive”, but Bibb campaigned in support of Issue 24, a city charter amendment which gives a new civilian Community Police Commission authority over police discipline, department policies and officer training. The police union was (and is) apoplectic about Issue 24, the outgoing mayor and the establishment in general condemned it, and Kelley (White) accused Bibb (Black) of wanting to defund the police. Result: Issue 24 passed 59%-41% and Bibb Beat Kelley 63%-37%.
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Lulz
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What a ridiculously slanted story.
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I’ve been saying, "@discobot display help.” Out loud. Repeatedly. For years. And I’ve got bupkis to show for it except for those strange looks from people around me.
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The polarized Seattle city attorney race was a case study in why we need rank choice voting. The incumbent lost the 3-way primary by 1 percent, leaving two candidates at the extremes, especially the self-proclaimed “abolition anarchist.” (Yes, she did call herself that…author needs to read her tweets). In this race, the incumbent was everybody’s second choice and probably would have won a write-in campaign.
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I’m not sure what the conclusion is here. Did the author get to their 1000 word objective and call it quits? I can summarize that in the western suburbs of Philadelphia - specifically Chester County PA (which is still purple), we swept all possible offices (albeit by perhaps uncomfortably close margins - mail in votes put us over the top in every case 
). In an off year, I’ll take it.
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People voted for safe, clean, affordable, livable cites. Shocker.
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Democrats: “Defund the Police, Unless Crime is Up”
In cities with rapidly escalating real estate prices, the middle class is being pushed out. Who are left are highly paid tech workers and the homeless. This can be seen in Seattle, San Jose and Los Angeles and else where. If rent control slows down this bubble, that would be a good thing.
Solving the housing crisis by implementing a policy that decreases supply is some next-level magical thinking.
Well, isn’t that an improvement over the voter’s position which seems to be ‘don’t defund the police.’
A better position would be to explain how funding non-police responses to non-criminal calls would leave more time for the Po-po to do their jobs and fight actual crime.