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to have local control over their energy. The grant was always a part-time engagement. I still had to pay the bills, so I started a handyman service called Greenhand Handyman. And, you have quite a story connected to the Community Choice initiative… That’s true. My mother actually passed away in 2012. She was the best and I was super lucky to have her. She had the utmost love and care. I also sort of adopted a second mother out here in SLO. Since we don’t have any immediate family here, we just adopt aunties and uncles and moms. So, I met Linda through the work I was doing around town at the time. Later, her son was diagnosed with some crazy autoimmune disease, and both of his kidneys were failing. He was on dialysis constantly, and everybody in his family went in to find out if they could be donors. None of them came back positive. It wasn’t going to work out. So, one day, Linda sent out a mass email saying something like, “Nothing is working, somebody please help.” I sat on that email for some time. It was when Proposition 16 was on the ballot, which was the Community Choice initiative. PG&E funded like $50 million to stop the effort. Our group, which was pushing for it, raised only about $50,000. The way the proposition was written meant that if it failed, Community Choice would go forward. So, I put it up to the universe. On election night, I said, “Hey, if you let this thing fail, I will immediately go and check to see if I’m a candidate for a kidney donation.” You made a deal with the universe to trade one of your kidneys for Community Choice? I guess you could say that; yes, I made that deal. So, that night was the most amazing election night. We were continually down two or three points, and then slowly through the night the votes kept coming in. We finally pulled ahead and ultimately won. The next day I called the clinic. It was Cedar Sinai down in LA. I went down there and I didn’t tell Linda about any of this, but I went, and I got myself checked. It turned out that both Linda’s son and are about the same age, and we’re both of Jewish descent—Ashkenazi Jews. I think it has to do with coming from a certain part of Europe. Honestly, I don’t have all the details of it. But, I received a letter telling me that I was a perfect match for him. The following day, I was riding my bike and I see this bumper sticker on the car in front of me promoting organ donation. It said, “Give Life,” or something like that. Then, I see Linda on the sidewalk. So, I rode up to her and shared the news. She just broke into tears. Wow, that’s incredible. Now, can you back up for a minute and explain exactly what Community Choice is? Sure. So, Community Choice >> 44 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | FEB/MAR 2020
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