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Little_Noodles t1_j6o1pep wrote

Reply to comment by Marko_Ramius1 in Gym bashes Union League, goes to cocktail party there next week by MagnusUnda

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.

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Marko_Ramius1 t1_j6o2wzl wrote

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

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Little_Noodles t1_j6o3fsz wrote

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.

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Ams12345678 t1_j6p4u4q wrote

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.

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Little_Noodles t1_j6p5ebt wrote

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.

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