So, Georgette Gomez voted to increase the SDPD's budget using CARES Act funds.
The week before the cops had shot protestors, bystanders, the homeless, really anyone they could find with rubber bullets and flashbangs. Shieldwalls and tanks, the whole bit. Woman lost her eye.
Following that, the biggest call-in anyone has ever seen ran for two days straight. Two days of eleven hours apiece of one-minute public testimony before the vote, unanimously in favor of defunding the police. Naturally, these people are democratic voters, or people who don't vote but would vote dem if they were convinced it got them anything.
WTF? So what? It would have passed 7-2 instead of 8-1 if she had voted against it, what would be the purpose of not voting against it? Basically she was worried about our (lame duck, termed out, got his office through electoral chicanery) republican mayor retaliating against her priorities.
Gomez has no backbone, she doesn't believe in shit. She won't stick her neck out for anyone, not even on a symbolic vote with no stakes. She's probably also going to lose, and badly, and shit like this is why.
It should be a lesson for any left politician who's thinking about trying to difference split to 'not alienate centrists'.
Pelosi is facing a primary too! Unfortunately, Shahid Buttar's campaign is in disarray after recent staff allegations of mismanagement and an accusation of sexual harassment which Buttar has denied.
So, Georgette Gomez voted to increase the SDPD's budget using CARES Act funds.
The week before the cops had shot protestors, bystanders, the homeless, really anyone they could find with rubber bullets and flashbangs. Shieldwalls and tanks, the whole bit. Woman lost her eye.
Following that, the biggest call-in anyone has ever seen ran for two days straight. Two days of eleven hours apiece of one-minute public testimony before the vote, unanimously in favor of defunding the police. Naturally, these people are democratic voters, or people who don't vote but would vote dem if they were convinced it got them anything.
Only one vote against, and that councilman, Ward, was just mad that his priorities weren't put first, he could have cared less about police racism and brutality. Gomez, president of San Diego City Council, said she didn't vote against it because she 'didn't have the votes.' https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/gomez-says-she-would-have-cut-police-budget-but-didnt-have-the-votes/
WTF? So what? It would have passed 7-2 instead of 8-1 if she had voted against it, what would be the purpose of not voting against it? Basically she was worried about our (lame duck, termed out, got his office through electoral chicanery) republican mayor retaliating against her priorities.
Gomez has no backbone, she doesn't believe in shit. She won't stick her neck out for anyone, not even on a symbolic vote with no stakes. She's probably also going to lose, and badly, and shit like this is why.
It should be a lesson for any left politician who's thinking about trying to difference split to 'not alienate centrists'.
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Pelosi is facing a primary too! Unfortunately, Shahid Buttar's campaign is in disarray after recent staff allegations of mismanagement and an accusation of sexual harassment which Buttar has denied.
She is so far refusing to debate.