<story><title>San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune (2019)</title><url>https://www.city-journal.org/san-franciscos-municipal-budget</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sagarm</author><text>Local elections in SF are actually quite competitive, thanks to both jungle primaries and ranked choice voting.&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won&amp;#x27;t have a candidate to support in the general.</text></item><item><author>jackfoxy</author><text>A one party city in a one party state, endorsed by the local media establishment. You get what you vote for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SllX</author><text>Competition between Democrats in the Generals each carrying water for the party does not make for competitive elections. Even the moderates in SF are to the left of the State and Country.</text></comment>
<story><title>San Francisco’s political leadership has squandered a fortune (2019)</title><url>https://www.city-journal.org/san-franciscos-municipal-budget</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sagarm</author><text>Local elections in SF are actually quite competitive, thanks to both jungle primaries and ranked choice voting.&lt;p&gt;Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won&amp;#x27;t have a candidate to support in the general.</text></item><item><author>jackfoxy</author><text>A one party city in a one party state, endorsed by the local media establishment. You get what you vote for.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>konjin</author><text>&amp;gt;Of course, if you e.g. are a single issue voter that cares only that women who has consensual sex not have the option to terminate unintended pregnancies you won&amp;#x27;t have a candidate to support in the general.&lt;p&gt;Who can I vote for to enforce copyright protection on my genes by forcing women to have abortions if they did not receive my permission to conceive?</text></comment>