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BRTD
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« on: October 01, 2013, 10:45:02 AM » |
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My incumbent city councilwoman is in her 60s. Since the ward is much younger, I get the impression from comments on local sites a lot of people are pissed off about that ("We have enough old white people in government already, etc.") and that's encouraging a lot of people to support her 34-year old and looks younger opponent.
Of course she's pissed a lot of people off for other reasons too and I am definitely voting for her opponent, but now some people have started calling out that this is ageism. Of course the main reason to vote her out is she used to be on the "neighborhood association" and is basically beholden to them now and the people who throw massive fits that about stuff that 90% of the neighborhood doesn't care about but get their way because they're the loudest (or more accurately perhaps, stuff that 80% of the neighborhood doesn't care about that 10% wouldn't care about but does only if the other 10% reminds them.) She actually sponsored a law to limit outdoor patios in Uptown bars for example...something that pissed constituents off who like to go to such places.
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