After a while, though, all the professions of sincerity and thanks, the constant invocations of the one true POTUS, and the worshipful exhibits upstairs give the whole place a cultish, nostalgic gleam.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
4 June 2026
Yet office work expanded, as recent invocations of the Jevons paradox rightly note.
Of the ballot items, only Measure E spurred any meaningful political spending, with the city’s largest public labor unions dropping over $1 million to bankroll citizen groups that gathered petitions and later to campaign for the tax’s approval.
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Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
3 June 2026
That also includes encouraging voters to vote for a particular candidate, sharing campaign materials or circulating petitions.
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