The district is all of San Francisco
except that red zone. It's the only Congressional District completely
contained in the City and County of San Francisco.
There were a few other reminders of Casey Sheehan, but these captured
the essence for me.
This was the manager. It didn't take
her long to decide to send us out to help Frank at the 24th St. BART
station. She also told us that everybody that can help is already out
there. Somebody is at the rally against attacking Iran. Somebody else
is at the single payer healthcare rally. She told us about several
other places where volunteers were out there. It sounded like a real
campaign was going on.
Around the corner from Cindy's office
is The Bike Kitchen. It's a place where volunteers rehab bikes to get
them back on the road. If you need your bike fixed and are willing to
do the work yourself but don't know how they will train you and let you
use their tools. It's also a good place to donate a bike that needs a
bit of work to be useful. While I listened to the guy that was running
the place tell me about it I got a strong feeling it was a spiritual
place.
Most of the time I was helping out I
was just finding voters that hadn't signed the petition that were
willing to sign. Occasionally I talked to others. For example, this guy
is from Kansas (or was it Nebraska?) and is just learning about San
Francisco. He figured that Candidate he is helping doesn't need any
publicity on a third party website, but he wanted his picture taken
anyhow.
I thought this ad in the BART station was great. There were several
others in the same vein.
I don't remember those bike racks near
the turnstile being there a few years ago...
When we handed in our signatures the manager was optimistic that Cindy
would be on the ballot, but she needs to get every signature possible
by the deadline the coming Friday. The campaign needs to turn in 8700
valid signatures. They handed in 13,000 the previous Friday, but the
Registrar hadn't certified them yet. The campaign can only improve the
odds by gathering signatures, so that's what they are doing. The alpha
male that was hanging around the office thought coming up all week long
to help out would be a great idea. As I type this I'm thinking I should
go help some more...