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Local municipal elections have become toxic and exploitative due to the injection of national partisan politics.
“party politics infecting these municipal nonpartisan races is absolutely toxic and it's exploitative, too, because the candidates only really take advantage of it to get elected.”
LeBatardShow · Dec 2025 · 4 episodes · 14K views on this topicHe believes that partisan labeling in municipal elections is detrimental and lacks substance.
“I really do like a partisan race and I I don't like the toxicity that and tribalism that seeps in to races when they get partisan.”
LeBatardShow · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 3K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.