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The responses to this sound like PVD voters were mad. So that makes more sense too. I wondered why incumbents like Matos won or my local state Senator. Maybe people didn't see a reason to kick them out. The power of incumbency is tough.

Seems like most people wanted someone other than Matos, they just didn’t agree on who

I think the people who were angry at him don't garner coverage the way other constituencies do. But on the Palestinian flag, on bike lanes, on PVD Fest, on the Council homeless shelter, on the first police academy... he picked a lot of needless fights that did nothing to help his position in Prov.

Oh, and the big ones were rent stabilization and Flock cameras. Just always picked the wrong side of issues.

That also seems to be what did in McKee. If in the week after the bridge closure, he went scorched Earth, fired the whole DOT, sued everyone, maybe he could have survived it. Hard to say.

you could make the paradoxical argument I think that a lot of PVD, outside the big stories, was a news desert. Projo had been cycling through different metro reporters for different years, and the PVD Eye only hired their first FT journo earlier this year