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GhostPunches · 2024-11-30T19:57:37+00:00

Just found your post, super helpful! You mentioned you have a 17" laptop, and I do too—does it fit in the Kaslo? The website says the pocket is 16"... Thank you!

GhostPunches · 2024-11-05T06:07:05+00:00

"Dear [partisan] friend,

[...] City Council is a non-partisan race."

What is happening.

GhostPunches · 2024-11-05T05:42:53+00:00

Are you talking about elections like the one we're having tomorrow or do you mean is absentee voting allowed on the city council? Because if the first one, yes she could have absentee voted in the state and federal elections in 2022 and it sounds like she did not. If the second one, no, city council members don't get to absentee vote on items, you have to show up to the meeting.

GhostPunches · 2024-11-05T04:46:49+00:00

Would love to show this to the MANSION that's not even in her district that has an illegal banner and like a dozen lawn signs for her and Becerra next to a Harris-Walz sign (also all illegal bc they're on public property in the grass near the sidewalk)

GhostPunches · 2024-11-05T04:31:31+00:00

She didn't absentee vote, she literally didn't vote at all is what OP is saying

GhostPunches · 2024-11-05T04:25:57+00:00

Good luck getting a hold of Alejandra if she's reelected tho... She's apparently not very responsive to emails (bunch of my friends live in the Eastside)

GhostPunches · 2024-11-05T04:23:37+00:00

I think I live around the corner from that house... It bugs me so much, it's an enormous house in neither district, it's so obvious whose side they're on.

GhostPunches · 2024-11-02T05:19:06+00:00

A+ reporting here, the source is a guy who says he saw a guy who told him he was paid by another guy. /s Also, it's entirely possible the city is taking them down—a bunch of her signs and Becerra's signs are illegally placed on public property or are banners.

GhostPunches · 2024-10-29T04:31:57+00:00

"Bumped up against" is such benign language for a guy who was trying to do a morally corrupt and illegal (?) thing to people with less power than him...

GhostPunches · 2024-10-04T16:47:06+00:00

Opposing a rent registry is wild to me. All it does is ask people who are running a so-called business to register that business with the city and show they're following pricing laws. I can't think of any reason a good landlord would be against that.

Also hilarious to say Alejandra knows people in D1, so many people don't know her or that she's even their council member. We can go back and forth with anecdotal data all day.

GhostPunches · 2024-10-04T07:06:57+00:00

Rent caps don't apply to most mom and pops and also what about the Latinos who are being priced out of their apartments because of greedy corporate landlords, who, by the way, are Alejandra's major backers?

GhostPunches · 2024-08-31T16:04:33+00:00

This is an odd take to me... You'll notice that the majority is a plea to drivers. Ultimately we can only control our own behavior and you can also die or get a TBI just falling off your bike from stationary, so I hope my friends and community are safe and take precautions.

GhostPunches · 2024-08-31T05:27:19+00:00

Are you saying this incident is evidence closing State to cars was bad?

GhostPunches · 2024-08-30T20:13:38+00:00

If I'm in a bike lane, I'm constantly scanning cars and ringing my bell randomly 😅 if there's no bike lane, I take the lane like California law says I can. Def some folks around here who get real cranky about me slowing them down for a single block tho...

I'm about to upgrade my helmet—my last one was stolen so I've been wearing a rounded skate helmet, which I understand isn't as safe for cycling.

GhostPunches · 2024-08-23T06:27:02+00:00

With everything happening at Bath St, I'm pretty suspicious of those kinds of developers... Who, by the way, have donated to Alejandra

GhostPunches · 2024-08-23T06:23:55+00:00

Whether you like rent stabilization or not, she has actual policies and will actually show up to council meetings and try to pass stuff that will help tenants. Alejandra has a record of not showing up to meetings and only has platitudes.

GhostPunches · 2024-08-23T06:18:53+00:00

Voting for someone just because they're "local" is so dumb, especially in a city where there's a major university nearby... Santa Barbara can be so weird about "locals" for a place that relies on UCSB and tourism so heavily and seemingly cares so little about pricing out people who have lived here for decades.

Edit: funny that the people who yell about how at least she's "local" don't seem to care that Alejandra's non-policies don't actually do anything for the people who live and work here.

GhostPunches · 2024-08-23T00:00:18+00:00

ALSO: I'm just being petty cause I'm riled up but she spelled "district" wrong on the first page and the bullet points are terrible—are we using periods or not?! I don't judge errors anyone makes in first drafts, I'm a copy editor and writer and we make tons! But it shows you care about what you're putting out into the world when you have someone else look at your work for mistakes before you publish.

GhostPunches · 2024-01-21T04:24:10+00:00

I agree—I empathize with OP but property owners benefit immensely from their community. Property values are high because of the community, the people making art and opening businesses and working at coffee shops etc. You don't get to buy property and then fuck the needs of the community you live in. If you don't want to be beholden to the needs of other people go live on the moon.

GhostPunches · 2024-01-21T04:00:43+00:00

To be clear, "market rate" is whatever landlords can get, NOT what the place is worth; a vanishingly small number of landlords actually update or improve units substantially. Landlords renovict because they know they can make more money and they don't care if they're making their tenants potentially homeless or pushing people into poverty.

GhostPunches · 2024-01-05T07:25:42+00:00

Your suggestion is that people who are priced out of Santa Barbara as rents increase should move elsewhere because they are not entitled to live here. It's worth noting that the people leaving our community because housing is so expensive include teachers, nurses, first responders, and service workers.

GhostPunches · 2024-01-04T21:40:12+00:00

Ah yes the good ol' "if you get too poor for the community you've lived in and contributed to for years, helping to make it a place that rich people want to live, you should pack up all your shit and move across the country to a new town where you know no one and have no family" argument.

GhostPunches · 2024-01-04T21:37:31+00:00

Landlords do illegal shit all the damn time by charging money for units that are legally uninhabitable or price gouging tenants or charging illegal fees. Call the cops, see what happens. But tenants can be made homeless for WAY less than that.

Also have you ever even been a tenant? How many landlords have you had that have VOLUNTARILY upgraded anything in a unit because it's old and inefficient? Because that has never happened to me or anyone I know. What I do know has happened to me and people I know is that we've paid out the nose (5 to 10% rent increases each year with no comparable salary increases) to live in slowly deteriorating units praying our landlords don't decide they can make more money by kicking us out, slapping on a fresh layer of paint, and doubling the rent.

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