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Brown, Durston in Russ Feingold's "Progressive Patriots" online fundraising contest (David Dayen)
Good to see my favorite national politician recognizing the opportunities in CA-03 and CA-04.  You can vote for your favorite progressive patriot here.
Posted at Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:35:21 AM PDT #
Schwarzenegger Can't Fly Into Santa Monica Airport Anymore (David Dayen)
And his own brother-in-law is among the culprits.  This is actually a serious problem: the airport runways are too short for these behemoth private planes like the Governor's, and residential areas abut the runways.
Posted at Fri May 02, 2008 at 12:19:04 PM PDT #
Jose Canseco Lost His House (David Dayen)
Get ready for "My Celebrity Foreclosure" on VH1.  Seriously, this guy had a pretty high-publicity book not too long ago.  If HE'S losing his house, there's a problem.
Posted at Thu May 01, 2008 at 17:46:54 PM PDT #
Roger Waters' Pig Flew Away At Coachella (David Dayen)
It was a big festival weekend in SoCal, between the LA Times Festival of Books, a giant Latino fair downtown, and of course the Coachella Music Festival.  Roger Waters was one of the headliners, and he brought out the giant inflatable pig from the Animals tour, complete with an Obama reference on its belly.   It flew away and the organizers are offering a $10,000 reward and lifetime passes for its safe return.  Somehow I think an Obamaniac got a hold of it.
Posted at Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 20:59:23 PM PDT #
Does Carla Marinucci Even Try? (David Dayen)
In an article about the highly questionable success of Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos," she writes:

Already, he notes, both Clinton and Obama have been "weakened - which was the objective," and their negatives are both approaching 50 percent. He cheers the fact that Obama "hasn't won a primary since Feb. 22 ... and he has lost in seven of the 10 most populous states."

I guess Mississippi on March 11 didn't count.  Also, for the "7 of the most 10" number to be right you have to count Michigan, where Obama didn't appear on the ballot.

Seriously, does anyone fact-check her?

Posted at Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 22:09:26 PM PDT #
SEIU, SEIU-UHW, CNA at dKos (Brian Leubitz)
MissLaura writes a bit about the saga.
Posted at Sun Apr 27, 2008 at 15:38:35 PM PDT #
Sen. Wyden Health Ad (Brian Leubitz)
Pretty darn funny:

Posted at Fri Apr 25, 2008 at 14:05:25 PM PDT #
Dream Act Hearing in Senate (Brian Leubitz)
Sen Cedillo's Dream Act, now sans state funds, goes to the Senate Appropriate Committee. more details here.
Posted at Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 17:10:30 PM PDT #
LA women convicted for running over homeless people (David Dayen)
The story is actually worse than I'm making it in the headline.  These two are really at the lowest rung of the ladder.  Despicable.
Posted at Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 20:16:52 PM PDT #
Layoff of SD-area Teacher of the Year (CarlsbadDem)
Poway school district announced their three Teacher of the Year award recipients yesterday. These teachers will go on to compete at the county and state Teacher of the Year competitions. Unfortunately one of them, Andrew Shean, may be unemployed by the time those competitions roll around. He has already received a notice of possible layoff due to the budget cuts. (h/t SD Union-Tribune)
Posted at Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 11:42:35 AM PDT #
"Take a Leak" (David Dayen)
John Hartley, San Diego city council candidate who pleaded no contest to masturbating into a bush (I loved writing that), sent a mailer to constituents claiming that he "had to take a leak" the day he was arrested.  

I know I've gone to the bathroom, obeyed nature's call, thought about it, and figured "Hey, while it's out..."

Posted at Thu Apr 17, 2008 at 09:18:55 AM PDT #
Strange Bedfellows (David Dayen)
Celebrilawyer Gloria Allred, who's on cable news approximately every five minutes with some client or other, won election as a Hillary Clinton delegate to the DNC in my home district of CD-30.

Allred represented Paula Jones in her sexual harrassment case against Bill Clinton.

That's just weird.

Posted at Wed Apr 16, 2008 at 09:19:36 AM PDT #
Caltrain Sets Ridership Record (Robert in Monterey)
And they say Californians won't ride trains. Hah.
Posted at Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 09:55:55 AM PDT #
Feinstein Leads Resolution Condemning Tibet Violence (Lucas O'Connor)
"U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) today led a bipartisan group of Senators that introduced a resolution condemning the violence in Tibet. The resolution also calls on China to open substantive dialogue with His Holiness, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet."
Posted at Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 09:46:03 AM PDT #
SD City Council candidate "admits public masturbation" (David Dayen)
Good thing I kept my city council blogging to Torrance!  Unbelievable.  And he's staying in the race, so maybe we should do a campaign slogan contest.  "Rub One Out For Hartley on November 4!"
Posted at Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 09:30:40 AM PDT #
Special license plates shield officials from traffic tickets (jsw)
Just what the headline says.  It's good to be [a] king.
Posted at Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 20:12:18 PM PDT #
Anti-Pettis Site Comes Down (Lucas O'Connor)
The anonymous website attacking AD-80 candidate Greg Pettis is down.  It's caused quite a lot of consternation (apparently), particularly since it may run afoul of campaign finance regulations.  Nevertheless, with the Pettis campaign throwing around accusations of support at other candidates, it's just more evidence that this one is likely to remain ugly.  Not cool.
Posted at Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 09:12:47 AM PDT #
Blogging as a Health Hazard (Brian Leubitz)
From Chris at Open Left:

"This is not sustainable," is a phrase I have repeated to myself on many an occasion. The article goes on to cite several blogging related maladies with which I am familiar: often missing regular meals, erratic sleep cycles, spending way too much time at home, the constant feeling that you need to produce new content, stretches of low pay, etc. Can I really keep waking up every day and trying to think up ideas for four articles indefinitely? It often doesn't feel very healthy. Even taking a weekend off and produce waves of guilt that can only be overcome with a particularly intense stretch of writing.

At the same time, the lure of full-time blogging is quite strong, and the reasons for it are probably obvious. The ability to set your own schedule, dress however you like, and get paid for writing about content you enjoy, not to mention making a difference in the world, is pretty darn sweet. Whenever I question the long-term sustainability of blogging, I can't think of anything else that I would rather be doing. Whatever the downsides, the carrot of being able to do this full-time indefinitely is always big enough to keep chasing after it.

Posted at Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 17:33:52 PM PDT #
Nunes (CA-21) Flips On Africa Funding (David Dayen)
It appears that a liberal is a conservative who's been mugged by reality.

Conservative U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., joined some of his most liberal colleagues in the House of Representative on a recent trip to Africa. What he saw there changed him, at least a little.

Struck by the unrelenting poverty in a South African slum, Nunes this week joined Democrats in supporting a $50 billion global AIDS relief package. Most of his fellow Republicans opposed the bill.

"It's one thing to hear about a problem," Nunes said Thursday. "It's another thing to see it for yourself. This was horrendous."

Once you step outside that bubble, it's hard to ignore the truth and the suffering.

Posted at Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 14:22:29 PM PDT #
Cheney Will Stump for Lungren (Lucas O'Connor)
Sacramento, next Friday, private residence.  A little early to be bringing in what passes for a big gun isn't it?  Say what's up to Bill Durston.
Posted at Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 16:03:00 PM PDT #
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