While perusing my California Sample Ballot to decide between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee, I was suddenly shocked. What to my wondering eyes should appear but this listing of occupation for a candidate for Lieutenant Governor:
Cultural Spiritual Advisor
What the??? Right there under the name of James “Jimi” Castillo, the Sample Ballot read
Cultural Spiritual Advisor
No shit? Is this for real? Jimi’s party affiliation was listed as Green, so I went to my Green Voter Guide to check. Sure enough, we Californians have the opportunity to vote for a “Cultural Spiritual Advisor” for Lieutenant Governor rather than Democrat Gavin Newson or Republican Abel Maldonado.
Here’s a snip:
While Gavin Newsom is a multi-millionaire businessman
funded by a multi-billionaire oil heir, Green Party Lt.
Governor Candidate Jimi Castillo is a Native American
spiritual leader of Tongva/Acjachemen ancestry, the first Native
American to run for the office of Lieutenant Governor
in California. A Marine Corps Vietnam veteran, as well as
a member of the statewide Bear Clan Society, Castillo has
a lifetime of hands-on experience working directly with
people and communities, particularly in counseling youth
at correctional facilities (he was a counselor and Board
member for the Southeast Area Counseling Center in Santa
Fe Springs), defending and educating on Native American
culture in ceremonial and prayer events, and speaking at
conferences and classes at UCLA’s American Indian Studies
Center and the UCLA Native American Student Association.
More below the fold from green voter guide (pdf)