Four Emeryville Residents in Two Slates of Candidates Seek Local 'ADEM' Positions
Democratic Party members in Emeryville, which make up 59% of the voters, are being asked to vote for party delegates for the 18th Assembly District to help set the direction of the Democratic Party in the future, a race that includes four Emeryville residents. The agenda delegates, referred to by the acronym ADEMs (Assembly District Election Meetings), are divided into two slates, a conservative and a progressive and the four Emeryville residents running are split into both slates.
The progressive slate, called the ‘People’s Slate’, is comprised of 11 members including Emeryville residents Kalimah Priforce (a City Council member and existing 18th District Delegate) and Sarah Perez, while the conservative slate, called the ‘Housing and Climate Progressive Democratic Slate’ is comprised of 12 members including Emeryville residents Sam Gould (who recently lost a City Council bid) and Regina Chagolla (a School Board member).
The conservative slate, despite its name with the word ‘progressive’ in it, is noted for its corporate backers, notably the Real Estate Investment Trust lobbying group YIMBY California. They put stripping local housing policy to make way for more corporate landlords at the top of their to do list. Also notable is the fact that zero men of color are represented; very unusual for an East Bay election slate.
The progressive slate lacks corporate underwriting and concerns itself with traditional Bay Area progressive ideas like anti-gentrification, tenant protections, climate justice and a labor-led clean energy economy.
The Tattler reached out to the four Emeryville candidates for comment but only Kalimah Priforce and Sarah Perez responded.
Mr Priforce said, “For far too long, 'we the people' have been confronted with a false choice - a vote between fascism on one side and corruption on the other. The Democratic Party needs to change by winning back the people's trust. As an elected delegate representing Emeryville to the California Democratic Party as part of Assembly District 18, I'm once again a member of the People's Slate because of our diversity and working class progressive values that place people over profit.”
Ms Perez stated, “Unlike others whose work is based on self-interest, my commitment for social change is personal and therefore dedicated to people who need help. I stand in solidarity with the People's Slate. Please vote for all of us because this fight is for you.”
Democrats are urged to vote online by January 31st at ademelections.com
UPDATE: A mistake in this story regarding the acronym ADEMS has been corrected. Thank you to the reader for catching our mistake.
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| The People's Slate Featuring Emeryville residents Kalimah Priforce and Sarah Perez |
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| The Housing and Climate Slate Lot's of White men! Featuring residents Sam Gould and Regina Chagolla |
Last time it was the progressive slate that won the ADEMs delegate race. Let's see what happens this time to progressive Alameda County Dems in the new Trump World.
ReplyDeleteYou can always tell which side is the conservative side. They're always the one that will use the word progressive in the title. It's meant to trick the voters. Thanks for exposing them.
ReplyDeleteYou have it wrong the pro housing slate is progressive. The other slate is the foaming at the mouth left wing loon slate.
ReplyDeleteOK, I get it: You’re taking command of the English language. Because there are no language police, you’re free to call up down and red green but realize when you do, there’s an English word for that….the word is loon.
DeleteDo any of the people on either slate have real jobs?
ReplyDeleteThese people only meet once or twice I think. It's safe to say they work jobs at the same rate as the control group.
DeleteKalimah is the people's voice and choice. He supports renter rights and rent control and will make our voices heard for more affordable housing and choices where we are not slaves to landlords increasing shocking rent prices. only with rent control can we little people have a chance with home ownership should not be a dream controlled by conservatives
ReplyDeleteYou think its "progressive" to be anti-housing?? NIMBYism is conservative, not progressive.
ReplyDeleteTo your question; I don’t think to be progressive is to be anti-housing. And to your point about NIMBY vs YIMBY: that’s a binary that serves Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) corporations. They’re the ones that came ups with the binary that they are trying to force on everybody. It looks like you took the bait. In the NIMBY/YIMBY binary, everyone must choose one of the two. If you don’t choose, it will be decided for you by those with a material interest in pushing the binary narrative (or their sycophants). Everybody on the planet is either a NIMBY or YIMBY, got it? If you like democratic local control of housing policy, you’re a NIMBY, got it? If you support the corporate take over of the people’s housing policy, you’re a YIMBY and that’s good. Democracy bad, plutocracy good; got it?
DeleteUsing the binary narrative, thinking is eliminated and so is public policy. All to help out the bottom lines of these nameless faceless non-neighbor billionaires. The City Council majority and the Planning Commission in Emeryville uses the YIMBY binary and that’s how we know they are captured.
The YIMBY binary serves their financial interests, sure. But it’s also a neat trick. Because NIMBY is pejorative, anybody on the other side, the YIMBY side must automatically be good and virtuous and unselfish and community minded. Oh, and coincidently, that’s the side that makes the REIT corporations all that sweet sweet money. Like I said, it’s a neat trick.
This is exactly what a NIMBY would write
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