Diverse community of S.F. voters erases school board members' lived experiences

A little over a year ago, the New Yorker published a rather hilarious interview with Gabriela Lopez, president of the San Francisco School Board, which I wrote about here. 

Lopez, whose media relations approach appeared to be consulting a Say 'N' Say keyed to D.E.I. buzzwords, was dismissive of parents' concerns that renaming schools to conform to current notions of social justice should be a lower priority than, say, reopening them.

With Ms. Lopez and two of her colleagues, San Francisco voters were unimpressed. Voters ousted them  by blowout margins in yesterday's recall election.

 

Political backlash like this -- for locality-specific issues like schools administration -- is sure to spark speculation for the upcoming Congressional mid-term elections. And even though Governor Gavin Newsom easily won his recall election, it is interesting that an area as left-leaning as San Francisco wholeheartedly rejected officials' furtherance of an important aspect of the progressive project.

What says the Commenteriat? Has Tip O'Neill risen from the grave? Are all politics local again?