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Does voting count for nothing? I know the YIMBY crowd thinks democracy is bad and people need to be told what they want by outside money, but here, council members have a fair amount more voice than just some random guy "screaming into the void" as you put it. For example our last councilwoman triggered the fuck out of YIMBYs because she had the gall to think outside developers should work with locals instead of just doing the bull in a china shop routine and getting whatever they want no questions asked.
At the last election my first choice was defeated (no surprise since she had officially withdrawn at that point but I ranked her first anyway). I ranked Salaam 2nd, mostly because Al Taylor (who I didn't even rank) was simply awful. Salaam took no position on a lot of local issues which was less than ideal, but on the stuff he did take a position on, he seemed alright, and "I don't know, I'll have to learn more about that first" is at least honest.