For those of you not familiar with politics in my home state, WE ARE FUCKING BONKERS YOU GUYS. We also have literally all the electoral votes so the rest of you need to deal with it.
I wanted to share our special strain of electoral insanity with you, the internet, in the form of our voter packet. These get mailed to every registered voter and contain instructions for election day and other goodies. To review, one of our US Senate seats is up for grabs this year, and in California pretty much anybody can run for Senate. Anybody! Then we have an open primary where you vote for whoever you want (our parties are batshit, we'll get to that) and the top 2 from whatever crazy-ass party go head to head in November. The voter packet introduces some of the candidates (I'm not totally clear on how you get in the packet, we have something like 40 candidates, but they're not all here) in a statement they write about themselves in their own words. I scanned the best statements for you guys to enjoy and HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to go to the campaign websites.
Tragically, Dr Agbede has dropped out, but his dope-ass website (as of this writing) lives on.
His name is LITERALLY LAWS you guys.
I think I actually know Ling Ling.
There's a lot going on here. DEMOCRACY!
Legally changed her first name to President, ELECT THIS WOMAN!
SEMICOLONS!
I wish to punch this man.
I'll edit in links to some of the sites later and fix any wonky/unreadable images, scanning took longer than I expected and I need to go to bed !