I did see that the gap between the spreadsheet and the votes in the Council Rounds was large -- we counted 22040, the results from the city had it at 23719. I looked over our columns for duplicates, but didn't see any, and didn't have another good idea as to where we lost 1700 ballots.

Before worrying about a PAC, have you already built an organization that has volunteers organizing turnout for council votes, works with elected officials to drive policy, and makes endorsements around Election Day?

Raising money can change outcomes, but building an org probably must come first.

Bullister votes to Hanratty are going to include a fair number of “#1 bullister, #13 Hanratty” type votes; I can totally see a “I will fill all 15 slots, but vote for no incumbent” approach happening there.

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Rather than "endorse" meaning "approve of the views of", it is more like "Can commit 1000 volunteer hours to supporting the election of."

I think it's a really good approach to ensure that they don't use endorsements lightly, and also to make sure that their endorsements are effective.

The DSA isn't really doing "endorsements": endorsing a candidate is really "committing the DSA membership to an active political project to campaign". The Al-Zubi sign-holders I met yesterday across the city were DSA-member volunteers helping run the campaign. This leads to a very different meaning.

mostly my feeling is that we gave people a couple extra hours of "lower stress drinking" ;)

CCC would not endorse someone with Wilson's politics if they were "yet another white man" is a position I firmly believe. (And Wilson has been willing to accept their endorsement, which candidates with more experience with the racist/bigoted NIMBY group are not willing to accept, even if offered.)

The CCC would not normally endorse a candidate who had voted in favor of upzoning. I think that Wilson's very strong anti-bike lane position gives them some cover to endorse, but I think that if there was not some additional identity politics ("We need to have at least *one* Black Friend")...

In the 2023 election, Wilson let herself be sort of a "fill in the blank" candidate: she had previously been on School Committee, and didn't say much on most issues, so people could just fill in the blank.

In this Council, Wilson has been staunchly anti-bike, but voted in support of upzoning.

CC @bunchbike.com for bunch sighting in our bike bus band this morning

I see so many people who apply to dozens, or hundreds, of jobs, over the course of months, for theoretically open positions, and are consistently rejected.

It is hard to see that reality and think that the problem is that people don't want to work rather than companies don't want to hire.