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   scott f (scott@carfree.city)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:18:31 JST scott f

   if Dean Preston loses re-election, he'll be the second supervisor we've lost after they went out on a limb supporting car-free JFK and car-free Great Highway and were given zero credit for it and campaigned against anyway by mod "urbanists." #sfpol

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     elliots (elliots@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:18:30 JST elliots

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     @scott I've seen several prog urbanists supporting Connie Chan despite her poor urbanism. Seems like some people prioritize left/right match over urbanism. Maybe that's ok if that's what's more important to you?

     #sfpol

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 10:18:30 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • elliots

     @elliots @scott Urbanism has at least two major subgroups, transportation urbanists and housing urbanists. Preston has a bad rep (undeserved according to him and his supporters) among housing urbanists. I think it's at least partially deserved, but there's also a good chunk of SF urbanists where police/"good governance" has more weight to them than urbanism. Scott's not wrong in pointing out that they are often fair-weather urbanists.

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     Jesse Atkinson (jsatk@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:04:33 JST Jesse Atkinson

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     • Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)
     • elliots

     @kingrat @elliots @scott Phil said it well.

     There’s a reason they’ve nicknamed the abandoned car wash at Divisidero and Fell “Dean Acres”.

     I like a lot of Dean’s policies. And thank him for supporting car free JFK and the Great Highway. (But those aren’t in his district anyways.)

     But people are angry about housing. And most don’t care to look into the details.