Constituent services speaks to power, and she had a lot of that. But constituent services is not a legislative role, it’s a weird, kind of disturbing, add on to our system. 1/

From my perspective, her values and priorities, as a legislator, were far from mine, and I don’t think representative of SF. 2/

But incumbency bias meant she faced no meaningful challenge, and a big part of that bias is why would you not want a figure so powerful as your representative, do you really want to be represented by a freshman? /fin