Cami organized a carpool to the Bernie rally in Oakland. It sounded good to me, especially since she has off street parking for my bike while we're out taking pictures. On the way down there, I got to take a picture of the wiggle in the bike lane on Central Expressway. So diddly compared to San Francisco's wiggle, but at least this wiggle makes getting past the VTA tracks easier. It came with the new tracks they added after they took out the Evelyn station.

I had a minor panic attack on the way up there when it started raining. Turns out it was just enough rain to make the ground wet again. Didn't impact the march much. Didn't notice any runoff worth talking about.

     

     

     

           

The guy in the brown shirt was the march leader. He was mainly just thrilled that so many of us showed up for this event. Viva Bernie!

The guy in the blue coat is gathering signatures to get the California Disclose Act on the ballot. The idea is to keep large funders from hiding behind names like "Californians for CHANGE!" or "Americans for Progress!" Make them put their own names on the ads they pay for. I signed.

  

There must have been something like a thousand people there. Really a lot for Jan. It would make no sense at all if the only thing that mattered was California's June primary. The activist organizers were gathering teams of phone bankers who are excited about Bernie to call and sway voters in the Iowa caucuses to the cause. The attitude was "We can make the difference that will put Bernie over the top!"

        

Even the dogs listened to the speakers. It wasn't long before the marching around the lake started. About then someone gave me this:

     

     

     

        

  

     

Ummm.... The flier says "You MUST register as a donkey to be eligible to vote in this election." They are looking at it from a "Democrats are the only people that matter" point of view. I'm registered Green and I'm voting the Green Party primary that day. This idea that only Democrats vote is wrong. The deadlines for registering and the election dates are right.

        

        

     

Gotta love the way the trip ended with a rainbow!