Earlier this week I took the Metro home from work and was accosted by a group of kind-looking people at the top of the escalator tube at Georgia-Petwork Station. This one guy wanted to know if I was registered to vote, and I said of course, so who are you pushing? He said it was an independent, this guy Catania. I asked if the guy supported Ballot Initiative 71, which would allow individuals (or is it households?) to grow up to three plants, possess up to two ounces of processed weed, or to gift an ounce to someone without being financially remunerated (a.k.a. paid). And the guy was like, well, I know I support it, but hold on, let me check.
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The dude swiveled his head around like the owl that attacked me in Rock Creek Park a few weeks ago and asked the guy campaigning behind him. That guy turned out to be the candidate, David Catania himself, who responded quickly that yes, indeed, he does support 71. He nodded when I said the result of reducing judiciary discrimination would be a profound net result. Then he chatted me up about his record of supporting some kind of medicinal marijuana measure in past. (I'm not hip to his record of like 15 years on the city council, but I believed him.)
So I voted this morning - for Catania and for Ballot Initiative 71 - and I was first in line in my little corner of the district, a neighborhood wedged in the far northeast corner of the 1st Ward, a.k.a. Greater Columbia Heights, which includes CoHi, Mt. Pleasant and Park View. Now I'm just waiting to see how this democracy thing works, so see if he and the ballot initiative win.
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