We did it! All ballots are in and I’ve secured a #Boulder City Council seat according to final unofficial results.
Our 47-vote margin is w/in 0.5%, automating a recount that’s not expected to fundamentally change the initial count which was designed to be accurate.
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With the final vote totals released, enormous congratulations to @TaraWiner, @tinamarquis10, @Taishyasky, and @ryanschuchard on winning Boulder City Council seats! Very excited to be working together!!
This is why we count all the votes. A huge swing in the latest results. With only around 1000 ballots left to count. Tara, Tina, Taishya and Ryan are now leading. As expected a big wave of progressive voters came late on Election Day. #boulder
"We can’t continue sweeping away people who have nowhere to go, it’s really that simple. Boulder — but really any Colorado city you can think of — needs solutions to homelessness, not safe zones." coloradonewsline.com/2023/09/12/enf… via @NewslineCO
NEW: “People camping outside near a school doesn’t automatically make them drug-addicted criminals — unless that’s the blanket approach we are going to take with homelessness. That shouldn’t be our official policy.” dailycamera.com/2023/11/06/let…
@smith4stevenson@SolutionsNotSZs@dailycamera “Because it’s in the name!” LOLOL Read literally a single thing written about this measure by its detractors. And not even the “no” campaign — the Camera, the Weekly, the former Human Relations Commission reps op ed from yesterday, BVSD reps, Boulder Beat… so many omg
Enforcement-only measures that simply displace and shuffle unhoused people around the city without providing them with any legal spaces to exist makes no one safer. That's why voters must reject Safe Zones 4 Kids in favor of real solutions.
Read the full piece @dailycamera
@JessInBldr@SolutionsNotSZs@dailycamera 302 is absolutely designed to keep kids out of harms way. It’s literally named SZ for Kids… You may argue (incorrectly) that “it won’t work”, but at the end of the day, SZ was created to keep our kids away from things like propane tank explosions. End of story.
Yes on 302!
@smith4stevenson@SolutionsNotSZs@dailycamera The only outcomes of THIS election are a moderately conservative council or straight law n order. Neither of these outcomes will address the homelessness crisis unless people actually demand it. 302 above ALL will not keep kids “out of harms way” because it’s not designed to
@SolutionsNotSZs SZ isn’t just clearing homeless people for no reason.
It is already a law in our city code that no one may “erect a temporary structure”, nor “possess a propane tank” on public property.
SZ simply wants to enforce the existing laws, beginning at/near our schools.
Yes on 302!
Wow. The 302no crowd has finally caved and blocked their most ardent critic.
How many other accounts have they blocked to silence opposing voices?
Who's next?