Progressives won the Asheville City Council race by a landslide. Conservative Dr. Carl Mumpower collected only 13.9% of the vote, just more than write-in Progressive Robin Cape. The three winners garnered 17, 18, and 19% of votes. Affordable housing, domestic partner benefits, and green jobs were some of the main campaign issues. Behind the scenes at the SPN meeting tonight, somebody asked how it was that pockets of Progressivism (San Francisco, Boulder, Asheville, Portland) managed to form. By definition or natural consequences of the definition, Progressives support policies that depend on money, goods or services from other people. Strictly in ecological terms, organisms go where they can find sustenance.