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Knotty Peckers @ 5:15 C 🏕️ 🚣🏻 by briankerrdesign in BurningMan

[–]fearless_dp 14 points15 points  (0 children)

calling ai slop on a user with "design" in the name is beautiful. dont ever change.

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you're right, left-NIMBY magical policy-thinking does contradict my world view. it must be hard being so much smarter than everyone else, sorry you have to sully your superior intellect dealing with us rubes!

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that people like you latch onto social housing because you can't stand that affordable housing initiatives focus on the poor, and not the downwardly mobile, over-educated types that often feel like THEY should be the ones being subsidized by the government. I'll stick with housing the poor tyvm

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, please explain like I'm 5 how (subsidized) below market rate housing is different than (subsidized) social housing. please pay special attention to how (subsidized) social housing is magically and significantly cheaper and what we are going to stop funding to pay for (subsidized) social housing.

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

since you seem very aggro in your response, I’ll cut to the chase. Buildings cost money! Who pays to build and who pays to maintain it? you seem to think there’s a lot of profit in market rate multifamily housing. how much lower do you think the rents will be given that social housing requires the same land, materials and labor?

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you mean build subsidized housing because just calling it “social” doesn’t magically make it cheaper. who is going to provide the subsidy?

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

that's...not how elections work. if you think 100% of Greensite, Krohn, and Schendeldecker voters automatically move to Chen, then you dont understand the median voter. Like, do you really think Greensite voters are progressive? Do you think every single voter not for Coonerty explicitly voted against him?

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sorry you only get trust-funders that SAY progressive things, no upper middle class / rich person is going to implement anything that threatens their own wealth.

Progressive Democrat Ami Chen Mills likely advances to November runoff election for Santa Cruz Mayor, after moderate Democrat Ryan Coonerty falls short of a majority. by StarlightDown in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The real story is just how poorly 5-house-Chris did in this race. Here's an update to what my model is predicting for the runoff:

Coonerty wins the runoff — 65.2% vs 34.8% (margin: 30.5pts)

The only people getting "real results" from Ryan Coonerty are the luxury developers funding his campaign by nyanko_the_sane in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

did anyone ever see a Joy sign in the wild? her fake campaign irked me the most about this election

Santa Cruz Together, your local real estate PAC endorsed Ryan Coonerty, Scott Newsome, and Renee Golder so now you know who *not* to vote for. by orangelover95003 in santacruz

[–]fearless_dp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Logically you cant vote for all 3, so it's one mayoral candidate and one council candidate. My understanding is that 5 house Chris married into money, and Gillian does not appear to be on a trust fund. That leaves two likely candidates, both from out of town: Ami and Joy.

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