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POLITICO Playbook: Dems try a course correction in California

THE CALIFORNIA CORRECTION — Good morning from San Francisco, where we’ve spent the last few days reporting on the first big election of 2022, which happens here Tuesday.

Perhaps fittingly in a year when voters are in a throw-them-out kind of mood, it’s a recall.

For months, a nationwide parental backlash to school closings has dominated headlines and driven speculation about a brewing electoral wave for Republicans. But what’s happening in deep-blue San Francisco complicates that picture:

• Here, a liberal school board is colliding with a group of angry, just-as-liberal parents who’ve mounted a recall campaign against them.
• The city’s Democratic mayor and big media organs have endorsed the recall effort. So has state Sen. SCOTT WIENER, who is eyeing Speaker NANCY PELOSI’s congressional seat when she retires.

What’s happening in San Francisco is the clearest sign of how Democrats are recalibrating — by backing away from the party’s 2020 swing toward progressive activist views on Covid-19, race and crime.

It’s happening throughout the Golden State. Gov. GAVIN NEWSOM is lifting mask mandates. Rep. KAREN BASS, who is running for mayor of Los Angeles, called this week for a surge in funding for L.A.’s police force because residents “don’t feel safe today.” Over and over, progressive shibboleths are being dispensed with in one of the most reliably Democratic places in the country.

Which brings us back to Tuesday’s election in San Francisco. Three members of the S.F. Board of Education — GABRIELA LÓPEZ, ALISON COLLINS and FAAUUGA MOLIGA — are facing the first recalls to qualify for the ballot in the city since 1983, when the White Panthers tried to recall then-Mayor DIANNE FEINSTEIN.

This campaign was launched from the laptops of SIVA RAJ and AUTUMN LOOIJEN, two Bay Area single parents who met on Tinder during the pandemic. On one of their first dates, Raj knew he wanted to work on a project with Looijen. Instead of the usual pandemic-era activities — like, say, baking bread — they launched a recall.

It all started when they couldn’t figure out why San Francisco’s public schools remained closed while other cities were sending kids back to in-person learning. So they dialed into the city’s Board of Education meetings — and, like a lot of other parents, were annoyed at what they saw:

• A massive budget shortfall.
• An inordinate amount of time and energy spent on a plan to rename 44 school buildings, including those honoring GEORGE WASHINGTON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN and Feinstein.
• Eliminating the merit-based admissions process at Lowell High School and transforming the coveted academic destination to a lottery so that it would better reflect the diversity of the city’s overall student population.
• A two-hour debate over whether SETH BRENZEL, a father who happens to be white and gay, brought enough diversity to be allowed to join a volunteer parental advisory committee. During the discussion, the board failed to ask Brenzel a single question, then blocked his appointment.

And while it focused on those issues, the board failed to do something more fundamental: It never reopened San Francisco’s schools.

“Here’s how I explain it to people who don’t have kids,” Looijen said. “Imagine you’re in San Francisco. There’s been an earthquake. You’re out on the sidewalk in a tent because you’re not sure if your home is safe to go back to. And you’re cooking your meals on the sidewalk, you’re trying to do normal things. You’ve been there for months. Finally, your elected leaders show up and you’re like, ‘Thank God, here’s some help!’ And they say, ‘We are here to help. We’re going to change the street signs for you.’”

Ryan sat down with Raj and Looijen on Wednesday night in their Haight apartment, which also serves as the recall campaign’s headquarters. Over chicken biryani and wine, the couple spent three hours talking about the recall, progressive politics and what both national parties might learn from the results Tuesday.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 06:40 schreef OMG het volgende:
Inb4 de meest kansloze kandidaat ooit als Tulsi Gabbard waar fophomo's als Dejannn zich kapot op fappen.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 11:37 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Het ultra woke en progressieve beleid van sommige politici in Blauwe staten en steden pakt toch niet zo goed uit. Het is me ook wat met de Blauwen, ze moeten eigenlijk worden beschermd voor hun eigen radicalisme.
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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 14:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hannity en Fox zitten nu ineens in het Defund the Police kamp.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 16:13 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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ULX is voorstander van kinderen neerknuppelen.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 08:12 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:

Hihi, President Trump ziet wat ook ik zie, dat de Democraten niks onder controle hebben.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 16:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Aldus de rabiaat maoistische politiehater. Je bent theedrinkende geitenwollensok die teert op de staatsruif.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 16:54 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Projectie?

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 17:49 schreef Ixnay het volgende:

TRUMP WILL LOSE to Hillary in a LANDSLIDE

HILARISCH!

Wat een fantasten. Zij weten het allemaal wel.

Ze hadden het bijna goed met hun voorspelling. Bij-na. Maar net niet!

The Young Turks Election Meltdown 2016: From smug to utterly devastated.

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Op zaterdag 12 februari 2022 18:16 schreef QuidProJoe het volgende:

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Hihi, datzelfde wensdenken zie je ook hier op dit forum, waar het Establishment 100% in hun eigen hoaxes en psy-ops gelooft.

Maar nu hebben ze President Trump echt hoor! Deze keer is het echt anders.

Dit is trouwens mijn favoriet:

The Young Turks Election Meltdown 2016: From smug to utterly devastated.

Zo heerlijk progressief.