The Cambridge City Council Election Is Over.

On Monday, Bernie is coming to endorse six candidates for the Cambridge City Council. He has decided to come because he has a deep understanding of the specific issues our city is facing. He's spent months learning about Plan E government, the complexity of the housing crisis and current development projects, our failure to close the achievement gap and the large vs neighborhood pre-k debate, the issues with road safety and our unique barriers to being safer for bikes, pedestrians, and cars, and he's looked over the records of the current council to see which ones actually accomplish progressive things and which just blah blah endlessly, he's read the resumes and personally interviewed the new candidates to see which ones will be the best fit, and he's listened to the citizens, heard their concerns and hopes, and he's decided that he is now secure and certain that he knows what's best for us.

Yeah, no, he has no fucking idea what he's doing aside from walking into one of the most progressive cities on the planet and he's deciding which of the progressives get to beat the other progressives because it would be a disaster if the progressives were to win. He knows his power, knows he has no clue who any of these people are, but this is an excellent opportunity to further divide the left while gaining support for his 2020 run for President, so of course, how can he resist?

Here are some of the supposedly non-progressive people he is coming here *to ensure don't win*:

* The beloved first openly lesbian black mayor in the country, who has been fighting for affordable housing, environmental and public safety, diversity, and every progressive issue in the book for nearly as long as Bernie's been in the Senate.

* A social worker who helps disadvantaged kids with disabilities and their families, wrote policy to protect Dreamers, created legal fund for immigrants, created and leads the Boston regional homelessness summit, is working to pass $15/hr, and is the MSPCA leader of the year.

* A woman committed to ending childhood hunger, who started the Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program that weekly gives hundreds of hungry Cambridge kids food for the weekend when they don't have access to school breakfast and lunch, all packaged in a plain backpack in order to preserve their privacy. She now runs Food for Free.

* A young, progressive man of color, who was born in Sudan and immigrated as a child from Ethiopia, who grew up in public housing, and has been a community activist and organizer, working to create opportunities for advancement for young people since he himself was just a young CRLS student.

There are more. But all of them are irrelevant because for them it's over. All that hard work, months of walking the streets of Cambridge talking to people, countless small gatherings to spread their vision and listing to community concerns was a waste of time. Because Bernie-fever will take over the city and in an election in which 5th place and 15th place will be decided by 200 votes, he will decide what we get. Thanks Bernie.

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