Michela Alioto-Pier Flyers: Wheelchair-Using Candidate Will "Stand Up and Fight For Us"

• Michela is unqualified to be Mayor of SF.  Her only claim to fame is a popular Grandfather.  I remember her loss recently when she lived in Marin County.  

• We're discussing this over at The Wall too. Pretty much with Ryan here, Michela's campaign is either tone deaf or cynical, and then making foof over this article is just cynical.

• Just got an email from Michela's campaign reprinting this post with the headline, "This is what we're up against," and then demanding a campaign contribution. Gosh, she's a slime bucket.

• That flyer has literally been sitting in front of me as I wondered how to respectfully ask the question among other politicos about that wording. Clearly they had to have done that on purpose, right? To make a point? To bait people...call them out for noticing, in a "colorblind" you're-not-supposed-to-notice-color/race/religion/orientation/disability sort of way? BS. You're not supposed to "judge"...but it's silly to think a person's various characteristics aren't noticed. As an affected person, MA-P has been a champion for disability policy, and has thus made it one of her defining characteristics. We're not supposed to notice when the candidate who makes her inability to stand a centerpiece of her public service asks the question, "who will stand up?" I don't think a single SF voter would use disability as a decision making criteria, but why would you ask them that question? Weird situation. Just weird. I'm confused.

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