I mean he didn’t hurt getting the light rail but most of that heavy lifting came from elsewhere. He really couldn’t do jack shit to push his agenda through.
Another good thing about Ventura was he was willing to admit he didn’t know something and was very good about finding the right people to ask. For example the lady that walz had running the pandemic? First appointed by Ventura.
It there was plenty of oddities. Like he gave department heads 6% raises and then told people under them there wasn’t money for their raises.
And he set back public education by a decade or two cancelling taxes on things like vacation homes. (And there was also a thing about rainy day funds getting clawed back, too. Which fucked schools in ‘07 when the recession hit.)
Mostly, he did something that’s increasingly difficult to do. He united dems and pubies. Against him, but they were still united.
Hey, he did get us the light rail, and despite it’s problems I’m still a big fan of it.
Not really.
I mean he didn’t hurt getting the light rail but most of that heavy lifting came from elsewhere. He really couldn’t do jack shit to push his agenda through.
Another good thing about Ventura was he was willing to admit he didn’t know something and was very good about finding the right people to ask. For example the lady that walz had running the pandemic? First appointed by Ventura.
It there was plenty of oddities. Like he gave department heads 6% raises and then told people under them there wasn’t money for their raises.
And he set back public education by a decade or two cancelling taxes on things like vacation homes. (And there was also a thing about rainy day funds getting clawed back, too. Which fucked schools in ‘07 when the recession hit.)
Mostly, he did something that’s increasingly difficult to do. He united dems and pubies. Against him, but they were still united.