What’s a Lawyer Joke Between Lefty Friends?
You know it’s a lefty crowd when radio personality Will Durst kills the room with this line about Dick Cheney: “I did love that he shot a lawyer in the face and got him to apologize.” On second thought, that would probably go down well with any group save the Bar Association, but such was the tenor inside the gilded Grand Lake Theater in Oakland Wednesday at an event organized by Progressive Action: East Bay. The mostly white assembly filled about half the auditorium at the dinner hour for a tasting menu of local Democratic candidates. Though Progressive Action charged $10 at the door, raising money was not the objective, said founder Gary Lucks, who doubles as an environmental attorney and instructor at the University of California Extension. Rather, it was to hook motivated people up with a smorgasbord of campaigns and get out the vote operations in anticipation of Nov. 7. “This is principally about people’s time, skills and talent,” Lucks said. “Our focus is to tie people in.” One o
