STMIHA t1_iu3wjze wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:17 AM

Reply to comment by Vertigo963 in Why would we send another Menendez to DC? We deserve better and this is why Democrats will lose more ground. by oneofmanypeople7

And I totally get that. Tbh I’m sick of our political machine (on both sides), the nepotism and so forth. I’m definitely biased because I’ve run into him more and have just candid convos about cost of living, raising families in our area and so forth and he seems to get it. I get that he’s a political, that’s their job. It just seems like he’s not jaded (yet). That being said, I think it’s worth giving it a shot.

On the other hand, as constituents, we need to start holding the local machine more accountable. The joke of the Degise situation being the most recent egg on their face, I don’t care what party you are, I’m just tired of all the bullshit. Push term limits, push elected official reform when it comes to active investigations and so forth. And bring back campaign financing reform. We’re getting screwed each which way.

G_Funk_Error t1_iu40k25 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:58 AM

“Start holding the local machine accountable”

We tried. We showed up. We protested DeGises continued employment and they didn’t care.

JeromePowellAdmirer t1_iu4notr wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:58 PM

'We' wasn't enough people, there's tons of people that think running over someone was a good thing and she should have ran over more, living in affordable housing on 200k income is good because it pushes out those undesirable poors, using nepotism to illegally park is entirely fair and everyone should do it, etc. They tend to be older than the average Redditor and can be found at the bottom of any Amy DeGise thread.

STMIHA t1_iu4otn0 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 3:06 PM

Then we don’t give up and we continue to do it. It’s not that hard. The point is to make them all feel uncomfortable. Not sure when it’s convenient for us to do so.

David-Eight t1_iu47ml6 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:01 PM

What's Juniors plan to fix any of those problems?

STMIHA t1_iu7g0wj wrote on October 29, 2022 at 3:17 AM

There’s no fixing. Let’s be Frank. It’s about proper management on the local level. Happy to have a discourse about that because that what he and I spoke about.

David-Eight t1_iu90l1z wrote on October 29, 2022 at 2:27 PM

>There’s no fixing. Let’s be Frank. It’s about proper management

I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you explain. It kind of sounds like the plan is to do nothing but, know that can't be what you're saying. I'm not naive, I'm very much a realist, I just want at least the same as what other cities or countries have already done. For example universal healthcare, Republicans always say it's too expensive or whatever, yet every other Western country already has it.