The Agrinautica

   Primary election. today.

   Today while I was walking to Fat Cat Cafe for lunch, I encountered some protestors on the street corner by the District Attorney building. They had a big banner that said "Prosecute Reisig!!!" In front of them a well-dressed and charismatic man was giving them earnest advice such as to hold the signs up high; and when a passing car heckled them he told them not to be dissuaded ("don't worry, when you do a protest there are always opponents"). I continued on to Fat Cat thinking that this man was probably Reisig's opponent, and that this tactic was pretty "such sauce," especially on elections day. I also haven't the faintest idea what one would want to prosecute Reisig for.
   At Fat Cat the owner, Edna, just told me to go back in the kitchen and get my own soup, before I'd even ordered (had in fact shown up behind a five person line), and I just paid when I was done and there was no line. I heart the Fat Cat Cafe.
   Returning past the street corner (about 40 minutes after my first pass), the well-dressed man was still there, but he was on his phone. As I waited to cross the street he got off the phone and addressed the protestors: "well, that was a tax-payer, and they said I should go back to work, so I guess I'm going to do that." He then tried to shake the protestor's hands, but one by one they each rebuffed him. And then I realized, this man WAS Jeff Reisig!

   Obviously he's done something to piss off some people enough to protest him (but then again its easy for a Deputy DA / aspiring DA to make enemies), but the grace with which he faced his protestors greatly impressed me. In his manners towards the protestors there was not a hint of avarice, and while in hindsight it was kind of saucy of him to give them advice, he did so with sincerity. And he spent probably his entire lunch break with them. He solidly won my vote today.


   And now, I'm going to go vote. Lamar Heystek for city council! No on Measure G! (Measure G, a flat tax of $49 per lot of land per year, regardless of the value of the land, is completely regressive -- there would be no obstacle to the city council tying it instead to the value of the land, except for their regressive nature)
   My money is on Mike Levy getting lowest votes -- he's trying to play both sides, but former city council members Asmundson & Forbes blow him out of the water for the Establishment vote, & Heystek & Roy blow him out of the water for the student vote. Unfortunately I think former Mayor Asmundson is a sure bet, and Forbes probably has better odds than Heystek for the second spot, but I still think Heystek has a good chance.
   Retardedly, and against the advice of myself and a number of his other advisors, Heystek has actually teamed up with Forbes and sent out a joint mailing. This despite the fact that as I said Forbes is in my opinion Heystek's most direct rival. I think Forbes & Asmundson teamed up with weaker candidates (Asmundson in an epic pity-party has teamed up with Levy) because they realized they were the greatest threat to one another - that and their core support group of crochety Davis bougousie are already all voting for both of them but they want to trick students into voting for them too.

   Anyway, I'm going to go get my vote on now. Then I'm going to nap. Then I'm going to fire ze missiles. This is not a thirty thirty entry.