Political Notes: October calendar chock-a-block with political events and queer surf fundraiser

Congressmember Ro Khanna, left, Assemblymember Ash Kalra, and Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner Alfred Twu will be featured in a virtual event in support of Proposition 50 that takes place Monday.

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The month of October is filling up with various political events and a special fundraiser for a San Francisco-based queer surfing group being held at a city park that has made political waves of late. The filing deadline for next June’s state primary races is now less than five months away on March 6, while ballots are already being cast in California’s special congressional redistricting election taking place November 4.

To bolster turnout in support of Proposition 50, which will redraw the Golden State’s U.S. House districts to make five more likely to be won by