By Lilah Crews-Pless, KALW News
If you’ve got a mailbox, chances are that at this point in the election season, it’s stuffed with campaign literature. You might be so sick of it that you’re considering writing in your own candidate on Election Day. It’s a whimsical way to show dissatisfaction with the candidates who are running.
“I always thought you could write in Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, whoever you wanted, and the poor folks down at the Department of Elections would dutifully copy that name down,” says Bud Ryerson, one of several real write-in candidates running this election. “Turns out that’s not the case, at least not in San Francisco.”
Ryerson is in his 50s with rectangular glasses, longish gray hair and a warm smile. He lives in Bernal Heights and is running as a write-in candidate for his supervisor seat in District 9. He’s got just one issue.
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