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The far-left stronghold of San Francisco, California, may no longer be a “bastion of progressive politics” after its upcoming mayoral election, aIn an opinion titled “San Francisco has shifted to the center. Can a progressive still compete there?” Defne Karabatur described the competition for mayor in the Bay Area city as a “race against progressive politics.
The lead-up to the presidential election has brought the Californian “outrage” over the progressive agenda to play out in the “unlikely place” of San Francisco, thereporter who covers the city, opined that only one of the race’s candidates is “running on a progressive agenda.” “And he’s the underdog,” the pair concluded of San Francisco Board of Supervisors president Aaron Peskin.
Karabatur posed a series of questions, “What does it all mean? Is San Francisco no longer a bastion of progressive politics? What even is progressivism?”found that Peskin was the first choice for only 12 percent of likely voters, coming in fourth behind incumbent Mayor London Breed, former interim Mayor Mark Farrell, and anti-poverty nonprofit founder Daniel Lurie — all Democrats.
While the city closed its schools for more than a year — longer than most in the nation — the school board persisted to engage in an effort to rename a third of the city’s public schools whose existing names, critics claimed, celebrated historical figures associated with slavery or oppression of women or ‘who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,'” the“It just goes to show you: Few candidates fit...
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