This is going to be too short to be a real diary, but it's for an important cause. Today, along the Central Coast of California (roughly, from parts of Santa Clara county and north Santa Cruz County down to Santa Barbara County), it's possible that the balance of power in the California legislature will be decided.
How's that?
Well, today is the run-off election for our 15th Senate District, which pits one of the finest men in public life, John Laird, against a Republican backed by huge amounts of corporate and oil industry money.
If you live on the California Central Coast in the 15th, and you haven't voted VOTE NOW
Details below.
You can vote in the following places, until 8PM PDT today.
For later update: please help me gather info on where polling stations are. I'm posting this first, so more people see this.
UPDATE #1: Thanks to eugene, I now have a full list of where you can vote, courtesy of OFA.
UPDATE #2: find your polling location:
UPDATE #3: Parts of Santa Clara county are in the 15th. There's one gnarly gerrymander for you.
Monterey county
San Luis Obispo county
Santa Barbara county
Santa Clara county
Santa Cruz county
Please rec this up; it may make the difference today.