In my neighborhood, polling stations are in garages. My Japanese buddy found this hard to believe. So I took her to my precinct's polling location so she could see for herself.
It was not exactly an exciting election. The two city leaders running for re-election, the Mayor and the District Attorney, were running unopposed.
Well, Mayor Gavin Newsom wasn't exactly unopposed. Also listed as options for the office he's held the past four years were a motley crew of political wannabes including a guy called Grasshopper and a "Nudist Activist" who's mad because the police keep arresting him for being nude in public.
Duh.
The one county official running is the sheriff, who's held the office for so long it seems like he was probably here back in Gold Rush days. Someone is running against him this time, but it will be to no avail.
Then, there were the usual assortment of a dozen or so initiatives, none of which was exactly riveting or even particularly significant this time around. We were allowed to say whether we would like to have city-wide WiFi -- but the proposition has no practical impact.
Some of these measures were simply political digs under guise of policy changes. Others were Orwellian proposals that promised to accomplish one thing when they actually would result in the precise opposite outcome. This latter category of propositions are invariably funded by secretive big money interests.
Such is life in this political era in San Francisco. Nothing much happening.
Wait 'til next year!
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photos by Junko Sasaki
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