Danny Hidalgo

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Political Scientist at MIT. Academic focus is on Latin American politics. Advocacy focus is on housing policy in Cambridge, MA and beyond.

Marjorie Decker, our #CambridgeMA state representative, is finally getting a primary challenger, Evan MacKay: https://www.evanforcambridge.com/

Evan is great! If you're still bitter about Memorial Drive Saturdays, which Decker helped kill (and lied about!), or just about how dysfunctional our legislature is, please donate to Evan's campaign: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mackay

Evan for Cambridge

Evan MacKay is a union leader, pro-democracy organizer, and a Harvard teaching fellow running for Cambridge state house representative in the 25th Middlesex district.

Evan for Cambridge
@Ofsevit @crschmidt @scooooooott @utherp @bikepedantic But on bikes, yeah really hard to know how Ayesha will vote.
@Ofsevit @crschmidt @scooooooott @utherp @bikepedantic Ayesha more unknown true, but she said she would have voted for AHO expansion and had ABC affiliated folks as key campaign advisors. So I’m fairly confident that the CCC won’t be happy with her future housing votes.

Quick Cambridge election outcome thoughts:

On housing, this is a great Council. Jivan is a big step up, and I look forward to what we can do this term.

On bike safety: This is a soft-but-not-worst-case result. Pickett is a big step down over Mallon/Carlone, and protecting the CSO will require constant vigilance and pressure, especially on Wilson (to be good)/Nolan (to stay good). Significant expansion this term seems unlikely (but so does major rollback, imo).

@crschmidt @scooooooott @utherp @Ofsevit @bikepedantic Agree. While Quinton has been better of late, replacing him with Jivan is a significant upgrade on housing.
#cambridgeMA just passed the affordable housing overlay 2.0! It allows 100% affordable housing to be built up to 12 stories along major corridors and 15 stories in the city squares.

With the #CambMA elections coming up, I have updated my voting guide with this year's candidates and endorsements (that I've found so far).

https://2023cambridgevoting.streamlit.app/

If there are any endorsements/pledges/questionnaires I'm missing, let me know. Or any other suggestions. This is very much a work in progress.

#mapoli #CambridgeMA

For those interested in the Cambridge election cycle endorsements, Tim put together a reasonable venn diagram capturing the endorsement overlap.

The 6 candidates who fall into "Both ABC endorsed and signed the Cambridge Bike Safety pledge", that is:

  • Burhan Azeem
  • Adrienne Klein
  • Marc McGovern
  • Frantz Pierre
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

CC @bikepedantic

https://twitter.com/vaps0tr/status/1705573022705328355

Tim Russell on X

Trying to figure out the tangled mess of #CambMA endorsements. Remembering that CCC has lied and promoted hate. https://t.co/KCp3pNrGgb

X (formerly Twitter)

@DemonHusky @crschmidt @Etherealcolburn @bikepedantic @Ofsevit I'm definitely not trying to say your vote doesn't matter! Popular incumbents win because lots of voters like them (for whatever reason), so if it's one of your votes that helps them win in the first round, I don't see a problem with that.

And interestingly, incumbents actually lose much more frequently in Cambridge than places with different electoral systems, as far as I know.

@DemonHusky @crschmidt @Etherealcolburn @bikepedantic @Ofsevit Yes, it's true that there is a bit of randomness in the transfers, but given the numbers we are talking about, I don't see how this kind of strategy would actually affect who gets elected. It would require a ton of coordination to pull it off. But maybe I'm not thinking about it the right way.