NO ON PROP 54

"SUCKERS!"
"Candy from a stranger!"
"54 Sucks!"

These were my mantric cries at today's Folsom Street Fair where millions upon millions of Californians come to play in the sun. Several years ago, while working at the political consulting firm, I came up with the idea of passing out suckers with political messages on them at outdoor festivities because people never really want to take a flyer, never pay much attention to political issues, and often don't have pockets. And when you're outdoors, who doesn't want candy? So over the years I keep doing my sucker thing when there's an issue to promote, and lo and behold, well there's the No on 54 cause. So yesterday my friends from the Asian Law Caucus, where I've been volunteering for the last couple of weeks in relation to the No on 54 campaign, met up (after we walked precincts for several hours), bought cheap suckers, made labels, and put them together. Voila! The message is out there. And everyone gets to laugh at the joke about taking candy from a stranger.