Marko_Ramius1 t1_j6o1dng wrote on January 31, 2023 at 6:14 PM

Reply to comment by Little_Noodles in Gym bashes Union League, goes to cocktail party there next week by MagnusUnda

https://twitter.com/HelenGymPHL/status/1617959371824336896

>Philly will always stand against the racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and the bigotry that The Union League decided to honor today. Hate has no home here. #ByeDeSantis

Saying always really precludes her from doing that

Little_Noodles t1_j6o1pep wrote on January 31, 2023 at 6:16 PM

And never setting foot in any building owned by assholes that she’s rightly criticized precludes her from running for office in Philadelphia.

Gym’s not my first choice, and probably not even my second. But I do want to vote for someone that isn’t a fan of the Union League, and I’m not going to get mad at them for doing the kind of bare minimum public appearances every politician has to do if they’re going to successfully run for office. It’s not an ideological purity contest.

Marko_Ramius1 t1_j6o2wzl wrote on January 31, 2023 at 6:23 PM

If she's going to take a stand like that, then she should probably know as a politician how to work around issues like that so as to prevent that in the future, instead of being such an absolutist.

I could care less about the politics of the Union League/DeSantis, but considering the past honorees of that award he got include George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, I'm shocked DeSantis is somehow the straw that broke the camels back here re the Union League's right-leaning political views being out of sync with Philadelphia at large

Little_Noodles t1_j6o3fsz wrote on January 31, 2023 at 6:26 PM

Again, that’s optics. A thing most politicians at a high enough level hire staff to take care of. It’s just not a big deal to me.

And it would require her to keep silent when the Union League does something shitty, which they do on the regular. And to me, that’s a bigger failing than a PR whoopsie.

It’s not any kind of straw. Announcing that the Union League organization sucks and can kick rocks is something that happens all the time here. I’d be shocked if she hasn’t made similar public statements in the past.

Ams12345678 t1_j6p4u4q wrote on January 31, 2023 at 10:17 PM

To be fair, not every member of The Union League is a Republican. My friend’s parents belong and they’re far left leaning. It’s a country club that people use for business purposes and connections.

Little_Noodles t1_j6p5ebt wrote on January 31, 2023 at 10:21 PM

Eehhhhh, you’re not wrong. But at this point, in my opinion, being a member of the Union League for the business and connections is kind of like maintaining your membership at a whites only country club for the same reasons or just for the golf, even though you personally aren’t that fired up about miscegenation.

Your friends parents might vote a certain way, but it sounds like their primary political affiliation is “rich”, which is an inherently apolitical stance.