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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
Can someone definitively lay out why Helen Gym isn’t a good candidate beyond just “she’s a performative activist?”
(She’s not my favorite by far, but a lot of younger people I know seem to like her and can’t explain why).
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I don’t not like her, I just value the executive and financial experience that someone like Rebecca Rheinhart has more. She’s actually led people and been holding the city government accountable, whereas Gym doesn’t have that experience. In fact she’s been on the “yea” side of some controversial votes - and in some respects you’d expect that, council has a lot of very public tough choices that are more scrutinized than those of the City Controller. As a younger person myself (26) I might like Gym if we didn’t have someone better. I guess that doesn’t really answer your question though. Gym is fine in a vacuum I think but I can’t think of anything really important that she’s really been a driver of. Idk. I’d be fine with either as our next mayor.