[lbo-talk] Green dropouts

alex lantsberg wideye at earthlink.net
Tue Mar 30 22:00:33 PST 2004


frankly i have no idea how anyone can say that gonzalez did not have the support of the san francisco's progressive media. the sf bay guardian is an uncritical (or mildy critical) supporter and he's been all over the city in all sorts of forums that give him all of the soapbox he needs to move an agenda forward. beyond his 47% in the general, gonzalez definitely made an impact on our city - a minimum wage, chain store legislation, and increasing interest in progressive activism to name three things right off the top of my head, so its not like he was just spinning his wheels. my guess is he got tired of being one of 11.

as for national media - how much does that really matter if you're building on the local level? doesn't a singleminded focus on outlets like the nation (albeit it's an important one) ignore the decentralized nature of communications these days and the opportunity to get the message out to a broad range of people and spark other local initiatives?

from an SF perspective its probably for the best. there's a whole band of folks who are willing to step in be willing to both agitate and legislate. they may not have matt's star power, but they'll definitely continue to move the ideas forward. it'll be great if he stays involved, but it won't be the end of things if he doesn't.

al



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