Elijah
@EJManassero
Orange County YIMBY🍊🏠 | Pro-Growth Democrat focused on Affordability and Long-Term Economic Health 🫏 📈 | Data, cities, politics. Opinions are mine.
SB 79 will be voted on in a few weeks. I initiated Public Records Requests in multiple cities, asking for all communications regarding their opposition to this bill. I've compiled a full report of my findings and it's pretty damning: docs.google.com/document/d/1yu…
Cities say they want vibrant downtowns, then charge restaurants thousands for putting tables on land no one else is using.
Fullerton City Council extends major donor’s lease despite ongoing lawsuit disputing ownership fullertonobserver.com/2025/07/21/ful…
I support a ban on gerrymandering, and non-partisan commissions or algorithms drawing all election maps. But I only support that at the national level, done all at once. If one state is gerrymandering, other states have to respond in kind. Unilateral surrender is stupid.
I’m trying to get more info on Cal Cities board meetings. Although Cal Cities is a private entity, it is comprised of public officials who are subject to records requests. The Board of Directors gets the final say on all legislative positions and is the direct source of their…
Every single blue state should have an F. Every governor of every blue state should higher a team of mathematicians to perfectly optimally gerrymander. They should do this every single cycle until federal legislation is passed to prevent all states from doing the same.
Here's Princeton's report card on the fairness of redistricting by state. Far more GOP states than Dem ones get an 'F'
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
It’s like Biden appointing merrick garland as AG instead of an attack dog wearing a suit. This willful of surrender of power in some vague hope that it’ll induce the republicans to moderate is so fucking stupid