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Thomas Emerick retweeted
Not sure how you qualify for this list, but @TheArgumentMag + friends livestream started at like 60K and increased to 135K by the time we called it quits after midnight.
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Today in Capital Commonsense—@charlesallen is holding a markup on the bill to allow Waymo 11/9. He has secured big concessions and by creating competition with Uber/Lyft there’s evidence that they pay their drivers MORE in cities with Waymo. More from @AVGregR. open.substack.com/pub/capita…
Thomas Emerick retweeted
This does not make me feel good about the next administration being serious about corruption and ethics. Bleak.
CM @trayonwhite speaks at @Janeese4DC watch party. He says JLG is “anointed and appointed.” He also says the process should be respected and the DC Dems should be the ones to name the next member of the council.
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In 2024, the big red light for me that Democrats were gonna lose was Hidalgo County. @Madrid_mike and were live when Gina Hinojosa and James Talarico won.
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A lot of people talk about how suburban whites in Georgia have moved to the left. But Georgia is largely competitive because of an influx of Hispanics into places like Gwinnett County.
In 2008, Obama lost Gwinnett County by 10 points. He lost it by about nine in 2012. But in 2016, Gwinnett flipped to vote for Clinton.
In 2024, Kamala Harris won it by 16 points. #GAPol #GASen
ALT Located about 30 miles away from Atlanta, it’s part of the suburban sprawl that has turned the state from bright red to purple. A big reason for this? The influx of Latino voters. In 2010, a report from the county found that 54 percent of its residents were racial minorities and its total population rose by 37 percent between 2000 and 2010. During that time, its Hispanic population nearly doubled. Now, Hispanics make up more than a quarter of the population.
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The final @SplitTicket_/@TheArgumentMag model update, run with today's polls.
Senate: 53D-47R (77% 🟦)
House: 239D-196R (92% 🟦)
The data unambiguously says something. It's just that nobody seems to actually believe it. We'll see if that's warranted.
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Thomas Emerick retweeted
I appreciate people getting involved in local politics but in a city that's 90% Democrats, where the party org not only doesn't have to perform but hasn't even gotten around to setting up an email domain... idk man. Why is it important that these folks get this pick again?
Thomas Emerick retweeted
Janeese Lewis George officially becomes Mayor-elect today and while she will immediately face tough decisions, the most important one will be whether she chooses the governing path of the progressive pragmatist (Mamdani) or ideological true believer (Johnson.)
She should choose the Mamdani path—it’s the successful—and popular—one.
My piece for @CityCast_DC dc.citycast.fm/opinion/advic…
Thomas Emerick retweeted
this is a really excellent interview with Tony Williams by @AshleySchapitl and I hope every DC resident reads it
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A big milestone for Capital Commonsense—passing 1,000 subscribers with 35K views the last month. This is up 150%. Grateful to our readers and team @mattyglesias @stanveuger @RiniSampath @ChrisJKennedy @saramead @tjl @JHWeissmann @ThomasEmerick @GregJaczkoDC @mhf187!
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The premise of this fund appears to be that the new administration will appoint folks to senior positions who don’t have the necessary experience and expertise—and who are leaving nonprofits behind that can’t survive without help from donors trying to ingratiate themselves with the new mayor.
Pretty good scoop from @jackiepeiser: Major philanthropic foundation is shopping a $2k fund that would fund @Janeese4DC transition, train appointees, and bankroll the nonprofits whose leaders it imagines might get top jobs. dc.citycast.fm/dc-politics/w…
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This is like when johnny cash released hurt
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Thomas Emerick retweeted
DC has a kind of broad but fairly superficial pro-housing political consensus at this point, and I'm hoping the new regime can actually dig in and deliver on some of these kind of high-impact reforms.
But also gotta address "inclusionary" zoning.
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Thomas Emerick retweeted
Exclusionary zoning is bad.
But "inclusionary zoning," rather than being the opposite of bad exclusionary zoning, is just the same old exclusionary barriers to multifamily housing given a new name.
Just say no!
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