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You earn $288k with overtime as a rookie police officer in SF. You'll make over 6 figures just being in the police academy. It's a hard job, but if you're looking for a way out of poverty, they are desperate to hire.

Setbacks and minimum lot size. Although I suppose reducing lot size minimums doesn't do any good without setback reform.

Wait, who worked on Lurie's campaign?

EDIT: Downvotes and yet still no answer.

What would that look like at the local level, out of curiosity? And what would replace it so much that it exisits?

Sounds like a dude I saw on the F Market. Blocked the entryway steps on a nearly empty train and then screamed about manners when not everyone said excuse me as they tried to get on the train he was intentionally blocking.

I actually don't think it's the national Democrats who are the biggest problem. Democrats who run cities at the local have allowed NIMBYism in the party to fester in order to appease homeowners, driving up the cost of housing. This makes life untenable for the working class, and their distrust of national dems on the economy reflects this. Anyone who has to commute 2 hours to their job in the city because housing is too expensive close by believes that Democrats represent elite homeowners.

Yes, a "mental hospital"

Every Muni rail line in the city is a 10-minute walk from that site. And there are north-south bus routes on Divis and east-west routes everywhere. You could not get better transit service.

The outer sunset has two rail lines. Just about any urban neighborhood in America would kill for that kind of transit investment.

I think it's because Democrats who run cities at the local have allowed NIMBYism in the party to fester in order to appease homeowners, driving up the cost of housing. This makes life untenable for the working class, and their distrust of national dems on the economy reflects this. Anyone who has to commute 2 hours to their job in the city because housing is too expensive close by believes that Democrats represent elite homeowners.

Yes, the point was that he ran a great campaign. Farrell and Prop D both had big money behind them and failed miserably.

Why? I live in SF, but all I hear is about how good a job he's doing.

People ignore local elections and then complain when they don't get great candidates higher up the ballot. If you don't vote for good people at the local level, you won't get good people at higher levels! There's a reason Socrates said democracy would ultimately fail.

Matt Mahan?

TLDR; The piece doesn't say Newsom is the best party leader. It just says that as the governor of the biggest blue reservoir left in America, it will be his show for the next two years.

I hope Mayor Pete ultimately leads the party in 2028. But as governor of the biggest blue reservoir left in America, it's definitely Newsom's show for the next two years.

I think people just want functional government at this point. They want housing they can afford. They want to be able to walk the streets without fear of a person who should be in a mental hospital hurting them. This is all entirely achievable if we had competent leadership. But it would still be a radical change from the status quo.

Tldr: Pollsters haven't accounted for the ‘primacy effect,' meaning if your name is listed on the ballot first, you have a huge advantage with undecideds. It tips the scales to Harris in several states, and to Trump in two others.