left coast

so I actually had nothing to vote on yesterday.. I live in unincorporated sonoma county, so although all the towns around me had various school board positions and referendums (with all the wonderful lawn signage that accompanies them: Yes on C! No on C! whatever C was, I think no won), I was a nonparticipant on election day.

I've been keeping an eye on the SF mayoral race. Of the top 5, none were Republican. 4 were Democrat (two of which were quite progressive) and 1 was Green. About half of the vote was split between the three progressives and the other half went to Gavin Newsom, a serious creep (even worse, a wealthy&well-funded creep) who is the pick of the party insiders; he is a city supervisor who has basically declared war on the city's homeless. Gavin will now face supervisor Matt Gonzalez, who ran as a Green, in a runoff election in December. San Francisco could very well be the first major city with a Green mayor. SF also voted to raise the minimum wage to $8.50.

Elsewhere in the Bay area, hippie enclave Bolinas voted yes on Measure G which reads as such:

Shall the following language constitute a policy of the Bolinas Community Public Utility District? Vote for Bolinas to be a socially acknowledged nature-loving town because to like to drink the water out of the lakes to like to eat the blueberries to like the bears is not hatred to hotels and motor boats. Dakar. Temporary and way to save life, skunks and foxes (airplanes to go over the ocean) and to make it beautiful.

The measure was authored by a local homeless resident, known for wearing a hat made of bark and newspaper on her head and peppercorn-sprinkled chocolate spread on her face.