Just a quick note as to why people at times do not vote

[nadinbrzezinski]

44. And the people of Baltomore have a mostly democratic city council

and a mayor.

My city council is mostly democratic, and what I hear from folks in the streets is... They only care about money.



A lot of this is really systemic and who controls what and power elites and goes beyond party labels. Some is different approaches. Yes, republicans will do a lot less for the poor than democrats, but this is also about how the old coalitions are breaking, or broken.

We will see if the new city council in Ferguson delivers, and this is not just about GOTV, which is the part that is extremely hard to convey to partisans. It goes well beyond and into day to day operations. People can and are coopted regularly, and the people who notice this the fastest...

I will give you a very concrete example. My School board is mostly under democratic control. They all speak about better schools and accountability. Fact remains, La Jolla High is at (iirc) 80 percent on track for 2016 graduation. Lincoln High, an urban core school in the same district, with a majority minority student body is at 29 percent.

I intend to ask some serious questions from the district, but this is what the folks who are poor see. Their neighborhood school, to put it bluntly, sucks. But they were promised the sun and the moon and are promised this every election. It feels like Lucy and a certain famous football.