Today's political action is not being counted, because it wasn't a protest. Valerie and I went to a candidate's meet and greet. Our county is having an election for the district attorney, and there have been a couple of high-profile scandal-ridden cases recently which have caused the current DA to choose not to run for reelection. There are 7 candidates, which is kind of a lot. We met Macy Lee, who is a woman of Chinese descent. She's been an attorney for three decades, on both sides of the court: both as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney, and off the court as an administrator. She thinks that we need to stop having a white man in charge of this scandal-ridden department and get it cleaned up. She seems to have the experience (of course according to her) to make this happen; she has been in leadership positions in several government agencies. One of the questions Valerie asked was how she felt about rigid minimum sentencing, and how she felt about things like getting people treatment rather than incarceration, and she seemed to have the right opinions (that is, the left opinions). She thinks that minimum sentencing makes sense for certain violent crimes, but not for low-level crimes. Especially for drug issues, she's more interested in getting at the importers, rather than the low-level distributors, and definitely not the users. I don't think I'm going to go to a meet and greet for the other 6 candidates, but there is a candidates forum put on by the League of Women Voters on August 12, and I will either attend by Zoom or watch the recording before making up my mind. But I am favorably inclined. [Edit: I later learned of another forum from the past which was recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0z6PBreQAw ] comments