Robinson, however, would prefer to keep the voting-reform debate above partisan politics: He recently chastised Hill in a group e-mail discussion for suggesting in a proposed letter to the editor that IRV was more popular among “progressive” voters. (“Yikes!” he wrote. “We need to be defusing the claim that we have tilted the [San Francisco] electoral machinery in favor of progressives.”) Beyond voting reform, he keeps his political leanings to himself. “Liberals yell at me for being too conservative and conservatives yell at me for being too liberal,” Robinson gripes. “I like to think of myself as being somewhere off the line, connecting the two.”