I will start off my discussion of the Nov. 4 election with a quote from my daughter: “It’s unfair. Why does New York get to have Zorhan Mamdani and AOC and we have Daniel Lurie and Nancy Pelosi?”

Good question. Why has New York, which is generally considered a less progressive city, moved in the direction of economic democracy, while the supposedly liberal San Francisco is under the control of billionaires?

Adam Lashinsky, who writes for the SF Standard, has a piece in The Washington Post that I can only call bizarre. It’s almost obscene. He writes:

Mamdani and Lurie have a tremendous amount in common. Both are scions of privilege who bring little political experience to their jobs. The 34-year-old Mamdani, the progeny of a noted academic and an accomplished filmmaker, has been a state

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