After months of sometimes brutal campaigning between the two former colleagues, the end result of Tuesday’s election was resounding. As of Thursday, voters are favoring Harrell by around 48,000 votes, or 24 percentage points.
While that margin could narrow in the coming days, the gulf between them is insurmountable and yawning enough that the González campaign can hardly blame one single misstep. Rather, voters appear to be wholly rejecting her campaign’s pillars — and those of the other progressive candidates — that the city does not need more police officers and that the answer to homelessness is to tax the rich.
“With today’s ballot drop, it’s clear that Bruce Harrell
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