State Legislature Special Election Megathread v3

[smoltchanov]

1 of the 4 is scandal-plagued Dean Tran who flipped his seat to Republicans and could easily lose.

The other? Conservative Fattman from conservative district and relatively moderate Tarr and O'Connor from Democratic-leaning districts?

Tarr hasn’t been challenged in a long time, but his district is very blue. The only one of the remaining four that would be safe if Democrats tried is Fattman, but his district isn’t super conservative—Trump only won it by 1%. O’Connor and Tran are very vulnerable this year.

Republicans have kept fumbling the ball on Democrat Anne Gobi’s seat for the past decade. They couldn’t even win it as an open seat in 2014 of all years lol. This is the 51-41 Trump seat based mostly in Worcester

Thanks! I meant "relatively conservative")))

[smoltchanov]

Progressive Matt Haney has won the special election for AD 17 in a landslide
https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1516629196679745538
https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1516694076526972933
Im very happy about this after Calcare was killed it was decided that progressives would organize for pro Calcare candidates in the assembly and senate to get a majority of votes to pass it next year and this is our first victory hopefully we have several more in November!

Haney is (of course, it's San Francisco after all) a progressive, but in this particular race he was "less progressive" then his opponent. As i said above - it's San Francisco: you seldom get anyone  but "progressive",  from it... In distant past even it's Republican officeholders (of course - there are none today) tended to be progressive too.... (best example being former congressman Richard Welch, who was never opposed by Democrats in his SF district, and, generally, was much closer to pragmatic liberal Democrats of his time then to typical Republicans)

[smoltchanov]

Progressive Matt Haney has won the special election for AD 17 in a landslide
https://twitter.com/KQEDnews/status/1516629196679745538
https://twitter.com/MattHaneySF/status/1516694076526972933
Im very happy about this after Calcare was killed it was decided that progressives would organize for pro Calcare candidates in the assembly and senate to get a majority of votes to pass it next year and this is our first victory hopefully we have several more in November!

Haney is (of course, it's San Francisco after all) a progressive, but in this particular race he was "less progressive" then his opponent. As i said above - it's San Francisco: you seldom get anyone  but "progressive",  from it... In distant past even it's Republican officeholders (of course - there are none todey) tended to be progressive too.... (best example being former congressman Richard Welch, who was never opposed by Democrats in his SF district, and, generally, was much closer to pragmatic liberal Democrats of his time then to typical Republicans)

From what I heard, the main defining trait of Campos was not being progressive or not, but being a NIMBY.

Yeah, but most still considered him to be more "ideologically progressive", while Haney was rather a sort of "pragmatic progressive"...