Chakumapeto kwa Okutobala, 2018, mamembala a East Bay DSA ndi ena opita patsogolo adakonza msonkhano wachisankho muholo ya Berkeley High School. Khamu la anthu osangalala kwambiri la zikwi zingapo linabwera kudzamvera Senator Bernie Sanders ndi Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Kulandila aliyense pamwambowu anali Jesse Arreguin wazaka 34, yemwe adathandizidwa ndi Sanders pomwe adathamangira meya wa Berkeley zaka ziwiri zapitazo.
Pa nsanja pamodzi nawo panali Jovanka Beckles, membala wakale wa Richmond City Council panthawiyo - ndi thandizo la DSA, Sanders, ndi Lee - pampando wa State Assembly motsutsana ndi Democrat wamakampani wotchedwa Buffy Wicks. Monga SF Bayview Adanenanso kuti, Arreguin "kutchula mobwerezabwereza dzina la Jovanka kunadzetsa nyimbo zazitali komanso kukweza kwa JO-VAN-KA!"
Pamene awiriwa akuwonekeranso pa siteji kugwa uku, Arreguin sadzakhala akutsogolera Beckles. Ndi chifukwa tsopano akupikisana kuti aimire Senate District 7, yokhala ndi anthu 850,000 okhala ku Berkeley, Oakland, Richmond, ndi madera ang'onoang'ono a East Bay.
Mpikisanowu wolowa m'malo mwa Senator wa State Nancy Skinner, m'malo otetezedwa, wakhala kale wokwera mtengo kwambiri m'boma. Ma Super PAC omwe amathandizidwa ndi Uber, Lyft, PG&E, McDonalds, mabungwe omanga, ogulitsa nyumba, ndi eni nyumba, kuphatikiza bungwe la California Correctional Officers adawononga mamiliyoni ambiri potumiza makalata ndi zotsatsa pa TV kuti atsimikizire kupambana kwakukulu kwa Arreguin pa Marichi 5.
M'mawu aku East Bay a Hillary Clinton pa mpikisano wa pulezidenti wa Democrat wa 2016 womwe udatsitsidwa ku Sanders, Arreguin adati adamaliza malo ake oyamba ku โmbiri ya mbiri osati chabe kukhala wochirikiza patsogolo wamphamvu, koma kuchita zinthu. Njira yanga ya utsogoleri ndikupita patsogolo ndi pragmatic.โ (kutsindika kwawonjezera)
Monga CR idanenera m'magazini yake yapitayi, nyumba yakunyumba ya Richmond- Beckles-ndi "mzinda wokhawo ku United States wokhala ndi makhonsolo ambiri a DSA omwe amavomerezedwa ndi DSA," chifukwa cha zaka 20 za ntchito yachisankho ya Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA). Chifukwa chake odzipereka a EBDSA adalumikizana ndi RPA, magulu ena ammudzi, Revolution Yathu, Teamsters Joint Council 7, ILWU, ndi ATU Local 192 kuti apange kampeni yaying'ono yochokera kumidzi yomwe idakweza $170,000 kwa munthu wakuda wogwira ntchito, yemwe amalipira. chifukwa cha DSA,
Mpikisano wa Labor Candidate
Pakadali pano membala wosankhidwa wa AC Transit Board komanso Teamster wopuma pantchito, Beckles adakhala wachiwiri m'gawo la ma Democrats asanu ndi Republican m'modzi. (Arreguin adapeza 32% ya mavoti, pamene adalandira pafupifupi 18%.) Pakati pa omwe adataya anali Dan Kalb, Wopereka ufulu wa Oakland City Councilor, yemwe adakweza kawiri kuposa Beckles, ndi Kathryn Lybarger, yemwe adalandira ndalama zambiri nthawi yoyamba. ofuna kudziwika pang'ono kunja kwa magulu ogwira ntchito.
Lybarger ndi purezidenti wa California Labor Federation yokhala ndi mamembala 2.3 miliyoni komanso mkulu wa bungwe lalikulu la ogwira ntchito ku UC-system lomwe likugwirizana ndi AFSCME. Womalizayo adakhala a adalemba $1.9 miliyoni pakumaliza kwake kokhumudwitsa pampando wachinayi, pomwe mabungwe ena a AFL-CIO, limodzi ndi SEIU, adapanga ndalama zokwana $500,000 mwachindunji kwa iye. (Ngakhale kuti anali ndi ndalama zokwana $200,000 zopangira zomanga, Arreguin anali ndi chutzpah kudandaula za izi. โchidwi chapaderaโ kuwononga Lybarger ndi mabungwe ena!)
Malinga ndi magwero angapo, kampeni ya Lybarger idadalira kwambiri akuluakulu aboma aboma, ogwira nawo ntchito omwe amalipidwa, komanso makampani otsutsana ndi ndale. Woyambitsa wake ndi wolimbikitsa anthu ku Sacramento yemwe sanagwirepo ntchito m'mabungwe okha komanso ku Chevron ndi adani ena aku California akukonzanso misonkho. (Kusuntha koyipa kumeneku kunali kukumbukira Wick amagwiritsa ntchito mlangizi wa San Francisco omwe makasitomala ake am'mbuyomu adaphatikiza Airbnb ndipo, mu 2018, Chamber of Commerce yamzindawu.)
Ku East Bay, antchito ena achichepere ngati Antonio Gomez adaganiza kuti Lybarger sanali wokonda kugwira ntchito. Gomez adayamba kuchita nawo ndale zachisankho monga wophunzira waku koleji ku Stockton. Atasamukira ku Oakland kuti akakhale pafupi ndi ntchito ku Walnut Creek, adaphunzira za kampeni ya Beckles kuchokera pazolemba zapa social media ndi komiti yosankha ya EBDSA. Ngakhale sanali membala wa DSA, adakonda zomwe adawona Webusaiti ya Jovanka ndipo anaganiza zomuchezera mโchigawo chonsecho. Iye anati: โZinali zongopeka. โAliyense anawononga ndalama zonsezo. Koma kumapeto kwa tsiku, ndikugogoda pazitseko zomwe zimapeza zotsatira. โ
Awa ndi malingaliro omwe adagawana ndi woyang'anira kampeni wa Beckles, Otto Pippinger, yemwe adagwirizanitsa gulu la anthu odzipereka ophunzitsidwa bwino komanso odzipereka ngati Gomez. "Makampeni opita patsogolo sakhala ophweka," akutero Pippinger. "Amadalira kulankhulana mosatopa - pazokambirana zambiri zapakhomo ndi pafoni."
Kubwereza Zotsutsana ndi Ndalama Zazikulu
Chotsatira choyambirira cha SD-7 chimakhazikitsanso machesi pakati pa Beckles ndi zokonda zamabizinesi zomwezo zomwe ndalama zopanda malire zidakhala zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi zapitazo mu AD-15, pomwe Beckles adataya Wicks, ndi 54 mpaka 46 peresenti. Mtsogoleri wakale wa Hillary Clinton's Super-PAC, Zofunika Kwambiri ku USA Action, Wicks tsopano akuyimira AD-14 ndipo amakonda Arreguin. Kuti mudziwe zambiri za ndalama zodziyimira pawokha zokwana $3 miliyoni (ma IE) ndi zopereka zachindunji zomwe zidathandizira mabizinesi akulu kugula mpando wa Msonkhano wa Wicks mu 2018, onani tsamba ili la EBDSA lodziwitsa, https://buffywicks.money/.
Pundits kuchokera ku Politico kupita kwa wothirira ndemanga wakomweko Steven Tavares vomerezani kuti, mโmawu omalizirawo, Beckles โakuyangโanizana ndi nkhondo yaikulu yolimbana ndi Arreguin, yemwe adzakhala ndi pafupifupi mbali iriyonse ya ndawala kumbali yakeโkuvomereza, kusonkhanitsa ndalama, ma IE amphamvu, ndi mabungwe ambiri.โ Mwa izi, Tavares amatanthauza mabungwe ogwira ntchito osamala kwambiri - ogwirizana ndi makhonsolo amalonda aboma ndi akumaloko komanso Northern California Council of Carpenters. Awononga kale ndalama zambiri pa Arreguin, pamodzi ndi olemba anzawo ntchito pamakampani awo.
Meya wa Berkeley amabwera ndi banja lake kuti azigwira ntchito mwadongosolo, kudzera ku United Farm Workers (UFW). Iye ndi mwana wa ogwira ntchito m'mafamu ndipo adalangizidwa, ali ndi zaka khumi, ndi mtsogoleri wodziwika bwino wa UFW Dolores Huerta (yemwe wamuvomereza). Pofika zaka 20, Arreguin adasankhidwa kukhala membala wa Rent Stabilization Board ku Berkeley. Patapita zaka zinayi, anasankhidwa kukhala mโbungwe la mzinda. Ali ndi zaka 32, adamenya meya wothandizidwa ndi bizinesi pomuwonetsa iye monga munthu "m'thumba la omanga, zokonda zanyumba, ndi eni nyumba."
Zodabwitsa ndizakuti, umu ndi momwe otsutsa amderali amawonera Arreguin masiku ano. Monga Jack Kurzweil, pulofesa wopuma pantchito ku San Jose State komanso membala wa Berkeley's. Wellstone Democratic Club anandiuza kuti: โJesse wakhala chopinga chilichonse chosonkhezeredwa ndi gulu lopita patsogolo. Atasankhidwa, adatembenuza madigiri 180 pa chitukuko ndi nyumba. Anachoka pa ndale za NIMBY zosamala kwambiri mpaka kukhala YIMBY wosamala mโkuphethira kwa diso.โ (Arreguin sakonda kugwiritsa ntchito "matchulidwe achipongwe," adatero Business Insider zaka zitatu zapitazo pamene anafunsidwa za malingaliro ake osintha pa nyumba.)
Wankhondo waku Richmond
Kugwira ntchito mokomera Beckles, Tavares akukhulupirira kuti ndi "womenya nkhondo komanso wotsogola kwambiri kuposa Arreguin." Zaka khumi zapitazo, akuthamangira kwa nthawi yachiwiri ku Richmond City Council, Beckles ndi anzake a RPA (m'modzi mwa iwo tsopano ndi meya) adagonjetsa $3 miliyoni pakugwiritsa ntchito makampani motsutsana nawo komanso mokomera pro-Big Oil slate.
Kuwulutsa kwapawailesiku kudathandizidwa ndi Chevron, wogwira ntchito wamkulu mumzindawu, ogwirizana nawo omanga mapiko akumanja, apolisi aku Richmond ndi mabungwe ozimitsa moto. Imeneyo ndi nkhani yomwe yanenedwa Refinery Town: Mafuta Aakulu, Ndalama Zazikulu, ndi Kukonzanso kwa Mzinda Waku America,
Monga gawo lachiwopsezo cha Big Oil chisanachitike chisankho chotsutsana ndi Beckles, adakhala ndi nyambo yogonana amuna kapena akazi okhaokha komanso kuzunzidwa ndi alonda akale a Black Black ndi omutsatira ku Richmond, womwe ndi mzinda wa 80% wopanda azungu wa 115,000. Ananenanso kuti sanali "weniweni waku Africa-America" โโchifukwa cha mbiri yake ngati mayi wamtundu wochokera ku Panama.
Pambuyo pa pulayimale ya SD-7 mu Marichi, Beckles adavomerezedwa ndi membala wakale wa State Assembly a Sondre Swanson ochokera ku Oakland, yekhayo waku Africa-America pa mpikisano. Kumayambiriro kwa Epulo, adapeza thandizo la Woimira US Ro Khanna, wopambana pakusintha malamulo anyumba, Medicare for All, ndi Green New Deal, yemwe ndi wotsogolera. wotsutsa chikoka chamakampani a PAC mu ndale. Patsamba lake, Beckles amakumbutsa ovota kuti ndi "mkazi wonyada, mayi, ndi agogo," ndi zovomerezeka kuchokera ku LGBTQ Victory Fund ndi Harvey Milk Democratic Club.
Pantchito, Beckles akufuna kukulitsa maziko ake othandizira polembetsa opereka ndalama, odzipereka, ndi omwe amavomereza. Pano. Akunyengereranso mabungwe apakati ogwira ntchito m'boma komanso mabungwe am'deralo omwe adathandizira Lybarger ku pulayimale ya SD-7 kapena, pankhani ya National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) sanalowererepo. Othandizana nawo am'deralo a SEIU, California Teachers, Auto Workers, ndi CWA, kuphatikiza a California Nurses Association, adathandizira Beckles pankhondo yake yayikulu yolimbana ndi Wicks zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi zapitazo.
Lybarger's AFSCME Local 3299 anali m'gulu la ogwirizana nawo panthawiyo. Panthawiyo, adatamanda Beckles ngati munthu "wogwirizana kwambiri ndi zomwe timayendera komanso oimira mamembala athu ... Pakadali pano, iye kapena AFSCME sanachitenso kuvomereza koyambirira kwa Beckles pampikisano wa senate chaka chino. (Lybarger sanayankhe maimelo angapo omwe akufunafuna ndemanga pankhaniyi.)
Kalasi Yogwira Ntchito Yosaimiridwa, Yoyera kapena Yakuda
Otsatira awiri ogwira ntchito mu pulayimale ya SD-7 adatenga njira zosiyanasiyana zandale zazisankho. Lybarger anali mlimi wakumanzere waku UC-Berkeley komanso wosintha mawonekedwe pomwe adapanga mpikisano wake woyamba kukhala Purezidenti wakomweko wa AFSCME. Pambuyo pake adakhala mtsogoleri wamkulu wa AFL-CIO ku California komanso anthu ambiri ogwira ntchito, pomwe akupitilizabe kumangidwa pazifukwa monga kufanana kwaukwati.
Beckles adathera ntchito yake yonse yamagulu aboma ngati wosunga ma fayilo, akuchita ntchito yovuta kwambiri yoteteza ana ku Contra Costa County. Koma, patatha maola angapo, adakwera pamakwerero achikhalidwe cha ndale za m'deralo-kudzera mu mgwirizano wake ndi khonsolo yoyandikana nawo, ntchito ya komiti ya mumzinda wa Richmond, ndiyeno 2-term ku khonsolo ya mzindawo, asanayese kukhala phungu wa boma.
Ochita bwino ku bungweli ku California ndi mayiko ena amakonda kukhala ndi akatswiri, oyang'anira, kapena umwini, zomwe zimatsagana ndi kulemera kapena ubale ndi ena omwe ali ndi chuma chochulukirapo. Amagwiritsa ntchito malamulo awo, mabizinesi, upangiri, kapena kulumikizana ndi ofesi kuti apange zifuwa zazikulu zankhondo, zodzazidwa ndi zopereka kuchokera kumabungwe amakampani, ma PAC amakampani, ndi anthu olemera. Momasuka kwambiri kuposa aliyense wogwira ntchito m'gulu la anthu ogwira ntchito, atha kutenga nthawi yopita kukachita kampeni, makamaka ngati ali kale pagulu lamalipiro ngati "osankhidwa" (monga Meya Arreguin).
Chifukwa cha zovuta zamagulu ndi mitundu, aphungu 116 okha mwa aphungu 7,400 m'dziko lonselo amachokera kumagulu ogwira ntchito, malinga ndi kafukufuku wamaphunziro aposachedwa. 2% yokha ya ma Democrats ndi 1% ya oyimira malamulo aku Republican "pakadali pano kapena pomaliza adagwira ntchito zamanja, zautumiki, zaubusa, kapena ntchito zamabungwe."
Amanda Litman, amene amalembera achinyamata opita patsogolo kuti apikisane nawo paudindowu, akuti izi zikutsimikizira kuti โndizovuta kwambiri kwa anthu omwe sali olemera kaleโkapena olemera omwe sali olemera kale, ali ndi anzawo olemera kapena mabanja olemeraโkulowa ndale. Ndipo alonda a pazipata m'boma nthawi zambiri amalemba anthu omwe amabetcha bwino, omwe ndi munthu amene angathe kukweza ndalama. "
Uber's Safe Bet
Magulu akutsogolo omwe amathandizidwa ndi mabizinesi - okhala ndi mayina ngati JobsPAC, Opereka Nyumba kwa Responsible Solutions, ndi Keep California Golden Ad Hoc Committee - amawonadi Jesse Arreguin ngati kubetcha kwawo kotetezedwa ku Sacramento. Ngakhale opereka ndalama amabungwewa anali kuchita ziwanda ndi kusiya uthenga wa Lybarger wovomerezeka, ena adalipiranso makalata osaloledwa omwe amatumiza Beckles, kutengera lingaliro lakuti akanakhala wotsutsa chisankho chofooka motsutsana ndi mwana wawo wabwino kwambiri wochokera ku Berkeley.
Malinga ndi Mabala, mtolankhani wakale wa ndale ku Bay Area, opereka ndalama ku Arreguin adachita "gulu lachiwonetsero loyipa lomwe limalimbana ndi kupha anthu," Chimodzi mwazinthu zomwe amatsutsa Lybarger chinali chitetezo cha anthu. Wolemba makalata wonyezimira wochokera ku JobsPAC, "Bi-Partisan Coalition of California Employers," adamujambula ngati "wonyada kwambiri" ku East Bay chifukwa "adayika anthu pachiwopsezo chachikulu" poyitanitsa kuti apolisi am'deralo achotse ndalama.
Malinga ndi zomwe zidalipiridwa ndi Uber, McDonalds, California Building Industry Association, ndi othandizira ena akuluakulu - Arreguin ali ndi "ndondomeko yoteteza" yomwe imaphatikizapo "kugwira ntchito ndi apolisi kuti mabanja akhale otetezeka" ndikuwonetsa bwino. โutsogoleri wopita patsogoloโ weniweni. Anti-union Uber yekha adawononga ndalama zosachepera $250,000 pa mauthenga a pro-Arreguin monga awa, kwinaku akugula $800,000 ya zotsatsa ndi ma mail oyipa motsutsana ndi Lybarger, malinga ndi San Jose Mercury News.
Kusiyana kwa Zaumoyo ndi Nyumba
Kuti athane ndi nkhani zabodza zotsutsana naye kugwa uku, Beckles ayesa kusamutsa mkanganowo kuti ukhale wokhudzidwa ndi ovota pankhani yazaumoyo ndi nyumba (zomwe Arreguin amazitchula ngati "nkhani yoyamba"). Kuti chithandizo chamankhwala chikhale chapadziko lonse lapansi komanso chotsika mtengo, wakhala akuthandizira njira imodzi yolipira. Arreguin amathandizidwa ndi Political Action Committee ya California Medical Association, yomwe simakonda kusintha inshuwaransi yazachipatala yochokera pantchito ndi pulogalamu yachipatala yoyendetsedwa ndi boma yamtundu uliwonse.
Otsatirawo akuyeneranso kukangana pazaulamuliro wa lendi, chifukwa Arreguin akuthandizidwa ndi California Apartment Association ndi California Realtors Association. The Tenants Union ku Berkeley, yomwe inavomereza Beckles mโsukulu ya pulaimale, ikunena kuti meyayo ndi โchowopsa kwa anthu ochita lendi, nyumba zotsika mtengo, ndi vuto lililonse lomwe likupita patsogolo.โ Mosiyana ndi izi, a Beckles adzakhala ndi mwayi wochita nawo voti yomwe, mwa kusintha kwina, ithetsa ziletso zapadziko lonse za mizinda ngati Richmond, Berkeley, ndi Oakland kukulitsa kuchuluka kwa njira zawo zowongolera lendi. (Arreguin sanayankhe pempho la imelo kuti afotokoze bwino za udindo wake pamutu wovutawu.)
Kumayambiriro kwa Epulo, Beckles adalumikizana ndi omenyera nyumba pamsonkhano wamasiku awiri ku Los Angeles womwe unaphatikizapo Sanders, Khanna, Meya wa LA Karen Bass, ndi Michael Weinstein, omwe AIDs Healthcare Foundation (AHF) adathandizira kukulitsa kuwongolera kwa rendi pa voti kachiwiri. (Idagonjetsedwa mu 2018 ndi 2020.) "Ku California kuli obwereka 17 miliyoni - ndiwo 45% ya anthu," Weinstein adakumbutsa gululo. Anayitana a Chilungamo kwa Obwereka kampeni ya โnkhondo yomenyera anthu osauka ndi ogwira ntchitoโ amene amapeza nyumba mโboma nโzosatheka.
Beckles ndiyenso wopikisana nawo kwambiri wotsutsana ndi a Biden Administration kutumiza mabiliyoni a madola kwa asitikali aku Israeli panthawi yomwe ku East Bay kuli zosowa zambiri zomwe sizikukwaniritsidwa komanso zachuma. Kwa miyezi yambiri yachisokonezo pa Berkeley City Council, Arreguin waletsa njira yoyendetsera moto-zosiyana kwambiri ndi zomwe zidachitika kale mumzindawu pazandale zomwe zakhala zikutsutsana ndi malamulo akunja.
Kuyang'ana kutsogolo kwa Novembala, Beckles akuwona zisankho zazikulu mu SD-7 ngati mpikisano "pakati pa munthu wopanda bizinesi ndi wolandira ndalama kumakampani" -ndipo kampeni yake ndi chiyembekezo chokhacho choletsa mabizinesi akulu kugula mpando wina kunyumba yamalamulo. Zikhala kwa otsatira a Beckles omwe ali m'mabungwe-omwe amabetcherana kwambiri Lybarger ndikutaya moyipa-kukumbutsa atsogoleri awo kuti ndewu siinathe. Kupanda kutero, ogwira ntchito mwadongosolo ku East Bay apereka chigonjetso chachiwiri kwa adani aakulu ngati Uber.
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