We asked Xavier Becerra if he identifies as a NIMBY or a YIMBY and I am still dying over his answer. Great interview by , who tried to get him to say literally anything substantive.
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Finally, a politician with the courage to say "Maybe in my backyard? What is a backyard anyway, really?
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Isn't pretending you are too stupid to understand a question in order to dodge it a time honored tradition with politicians?
“Some families don’t have a backyard; therefore I will decree NO ONE may have a backyard.”
Something a King might say…
yet democrats and independents in CA will still be voting for him. so who cares. he doesn’t care about your feelings anyway.
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The media could not be played.
He is literally retarded and CA Dems will still blindly vote for him because reasons.
california dems are so fucking stupid for electing this guy. how do you get someone WORSE than newsom?
Xavier Becerra clearly identifies as NBYAA - No Backyard At All. It's the most subversive of all political housing movements.
The problem with California is that it’s such a safe democrat state, that the party doesn’t feel the need to run anybody interesting. It’s like how a company with a monopoly doesn’t have any pressure to innovate
I hope people realize that merely framing the idea that not having a backyard as a horrible thing and implying those without single family homes are in destitute--that is in fact a very NIMBY thing to say.