After watching Council Member Kshama Sawant loudly tell the SECB a thing or two, one SECB member, quoting Lizzo—and meaning this as a high compliment—described Sawant as “100 percent that bitch.”
For sure, Sawant’s brash, uncompromising, movement-style politicking offends those with delicate sensibilities. But she’s not worried about the comfortable and delicate, and those “movements” she’s always uplifting have helped win us a $15 minimum wage, progressive renter protections, $29 million for affordable housing, and more. Give her another term, and we might win more rent and relocation assistance, as well as significant investments in public housing.