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By Benjamin Wachs
Presumptive Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama will alight upon San Francisco for an Aug. 17 fundraiser, where he is expected to save us all.
According to the Obama For President campaign, this is likely his last stop in San Francisco prior to the General Election. They could not comment on whether the sun itself will depart the Bay Area when he does.
While ostensibly about raising money – individual tickets to the Obama reception at the Fairmont hotel run for $2,300 – many Bay Area progressives are hopeful that Obama’s trip to San Francisco will in fact cure leprosy.
“That would be consistent with his record in the Illinois State Senate,” said one activist. “Though he never studied to be a doctor – which would have put him too close to the medical lobby instead of the ordinary people of this country – he did once give Aspirin to a minority.”
Tobias Wolff at the SF LGBT Community Center
San Francisco LGBT Community Center (Market St.)
July 29, 2008
Notes and Photos by Edward Paik
Tobias Wolff has around 10 days to convince Iowa. He knows that if he can’t help spread word of Barack Obama, the senator will have little chance for serious contention in the coming democratic caucus, let alone the primaries.
So the civil rights lawyer and professor from University of Pennsylvania tours the state, speaking on behalf of Mr. Obama’s (and his own) stance on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, in his capacity as the then-Democratic contender's chief policy adviser.
Seven months later he’ll remember these events and retell his story on a Tuesday evening at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center, but for now Wolff is on his way to Sioux City from Des Moines, a three-hour drive.
Headed to the northwest corner of Iowa, near the South Dakota border, Wolff asks a companion and Sioux City campaign staffer the question he always asks before visiting new communities.
“Tell me, what are the LGBT issues are and what people are talking about in this area?” he asked. “Tell me what is it that folks [there] care about? What do they want to hear?”
Wolff remembers the response till this day.
