Janeway peaks out hopefully under the sign of the choice of this household.
Here in San Francisco, this feels a dreary electoral season. The California governor contest risks
becoming a fiasco.
Then there's the Congressional race to succeed Nancy Pelosi. We're not used to having to make a real choice. Pelosi has been our Congresscritter, through too many wars and too much tumult, since 1987 -- sometimes annoying, usually honest, and sometimes brave.
Now we're choosing a new U.S. Representative. Several choices are repulsive. Scott Weiner is the candidate of the real estate developer establishment. Saikat Chakrabarti is a carpetbagger, a tech bro millionaire who parachuted into town and thinks he can repeat lefty slogans and buy a Congress seat. Connie Chan is the work horse of the bunch. A first generation immigrant, she has toiled in the minutia of city government on the Board of Supervisors since 2021. She's tried to keep this town livable for ordinary people, for those of us for whom San Francisco is home, neither a stage set for a party nor a gold field to be mined. She's a stalwart friend of the unions -- and unions still matter in this town. She shows up -- for picket lines, for marches against ICE and the Trump regime. Yet she also runs a mean Budget committee meeting with fellow legislators. Chan is not perfect, but what candidate is? I differ with her on some issues, including keeping the former Great Highway as a park, not a commuter freeway. But she is by far the best option.
In elections, you do your best to elect whoever seems a better choice. In this one, Connie Chan is my choice and a solid one. Janeway seems to agree. so long as she can look out ...
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