Chris Kluwe doesn’t have much time to talk at the moment — or to grocery shop, apparently. Between the demands of his final big campaign push ahead of Tuesday’s election (including news hits, social media posts, meetings with his team and public events) and the worrisome state of Kluwe’s hometown of Huntington Beach, which has faced coastal flooding in recent days, a lot is going on around the upstart Democrat right now.
When SFGATE reached Kluwe, a first-time politician angling for California’s 72nd Assembly District in Orange County, by phone on Wednesday, he had just wrapped up a rushed trip to the market. After stashing the apples and before racing out for a meeting, the former NFL player-turned-rising Southern California political star found a few minutes to chat.
So we jumped right in. First question: “How are you feeling about your prospects for next week’s election?”…