The life of a legislative district is not usually particularly remarkable. I am New York State Senate District 51. People often say I look like Abe Lincoln riding a vacuum cleaner. When people come up to me and say that I usually thank them for comparing me to such a great man and we laugh at the fact that it's actually quite absurd since of course vacuums didn't exist in the 1860s. But there's something quite disturbing about all this that I have been keeping to myself.