Although no media showed up, one "I just retired last week" truck driver came up from Riverside to visit his brother. He was so upset that the "Obamacare bill" would use tax dollars to pay for abortions that he was going to walk all the way to Washington, D.C. to protest. He hoped to pay his way across the U.S. by selling caps and T-shirts with slogans on them.
We learned after people saw this sign that not only was Pismo's neighbor Arroyo Grande thrown out of the gerrymandered 23rd Congressional District by politicians in Sacramento, but even the slim slice of Shell Beach was not all in nurse Lois Capps' district. Why? Too many conservatives didn't vote for Capps after the 2000 census.
Sacramento democrats in charge carefully picked out those who did vote for Democrats from Big Sur all the way down to Oxnard. To make the 23rd district safe for Dems, they tossed most of the agriculture areas over to Bakersfield and Paso Robles assuring a safe Republican district.
Our governor tried to change it in the last election with Prop. 11. But Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi threatened Arnold with a million dollar war chest to fight it if he didn't strike out "Congressional Districts" from it. (Check your last voter pamphlet. The struck-through line of copy is shown.)
You'll note that on this map of "The Ribbon of Shame" the Santa Barbara Channel Islands are in Capp's district—even though hardly anyone is registered to vote there....except for a few park rangers and the elephant seals on San Miguel Island. To those in Sacramento, Santa Cruz Island must have been mistaken for Santa Catalina. But there is no Avalon at Prisoner's Harbor.
