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In a blog post that has been endlessly recirculated today, LA Times reporter/blogger Andrew Malcolm, trumpeted the following headline:

Breaking News: Pro-Clinton push poll erupts in California

The problem? If you read his story, none of his headline is true. Great job LA Times.

Media Whore* Malcolm tells the breaking(!!!) story of a Clinton(!!!) erupting push poll(!!!).

... today, in Salinas. Hartnell College 2 - 4. Be there or be square.

The titan organization of the civil rights movement, Cesar Chavez' and Dolores Huerta's United Farmworker Union is picking their candidate, and perhaps picking the President: Hillary Clinton.

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(I've changed the title to minimize disappoint to people hoping to re-live the glory of Linda's Obama endorsement)

Earlier, there was the much trumpeted Obama endorsement by Rep. Linda Sanchez. The earth shook! Commercials were to be made! Blogs were to be rec'd! Another Biggie Breaks for Obama! It was proof, proof! that Obama was more awesome than ever.

You could just feel everyone push back their recliners and bask in the glow.

Huh-hum:

Lo and behold, several hours later, her older -- and somewhat more conservative -- sister, Orange County-area Rep. Loretta Sanchez, endorsed Hillary Clinton.

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I guess the truce did not include allegations of racism that include Latinos.

Via The Politico:

The radio ad aired by one of Obama's labor allies re-injects ethnicity into the Democratic primary contest in sharp terms.

The ad notes the Obama campaign uses the slogan, "Si Se Puede." But the lady who actually coined the phrase along with Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, talked to reporters on behalf of Clinton:

"It’s pathetic and it's sad and it's unfortunate that they have to stoop so low," said Dolores Huerta, a longtime Hispanic labor leader who supports Clinton. She said she had never met Obama in her years of working on Hispanic causes, and suggested the ad was prompted by his lack of Hispanic support.

"I have yet to find even one worker — a Latino worker — who is supporting Barack Obama," she said.

The political director for the textile and hotel workers' union UNITE-HERE, Tom Snyder, confirmed a portion of the transcript, and defended the decision to run it.

How did opposing culinary union precincts turn into a lack of respect for Latinos?

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This comes via an old friend who gave me permission to use his report from last night's Bill Clinton event at UC Davis.

Doug Paul Davis, the pseudonymous influential Davis activist, reports from behind the scenes at last night's last minute event.

Last night Bill Clinton came to the ARC Pavillion [...] It was a last minute event, that turned out to be highly successful. According to some of the organizers, the Hillary for President campaign had called and asked if they could get 1,000 people to show up at an event with the Former President as the speaker.

Instead, as early at 7 pm, two full hours before the event a crowd wrapped around the entire recreation field waiting to get in. An estimate 7,000 people showed up inside the ARC and another perhaps 2,000 were eventually turned away. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the crowd was that perhaps 90 percent of it was students.

(bolds mine)

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Yes, I'm pissed at Kerry's email endorsing Obama. Not because he did it, but why he did it.

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The title is straight from The Politico.

The entire post is too short to worry about clipping:

In a speech this afternoon in central Iowa, Barack Obama seems to have widened his criticism of the politics of the past to encompass not only Hillary Clinton but John Kerry and Nobel Laureate Al Gore.

ABC's Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama has often said he'd consider putting Repbulicans in his cabinet and even bandied about names like Sens. Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel. He's a added a new name to the list of possible Republicans cabinet members - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "What (he’s) doing on climate change in California is very important and significant. There are things I don't agree with him on, but he's taken leadership on a very difficult issue and we haven't seen that kind of leadership in Washington," Obama said of the California governor.

What a poor political impulse. For CA activists, it's immediately obvious that the most charitable thing you can say about Arnold is he doesn't pee on the carpet when the voters muzzle him.

Discuss the special effects on the jump...

Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is asking us to lobby Congress to stop billing Purple Heart recipients for a prorated portion of their signing bonus.

Paul's email recaps the story:

I'm writing today to ask you to please take a minute to help us out on an important issue that is affecting wounded servicemembers.

When Jordan Fox was serving as a Private First Class in Iraq in May of this year, he was injured by a roadside bomb. The attack left him with a back injury and blind in his right eye, and as a result, the Army sent him home. A few weeks later, to his surprise, they sent him a bill for nearly $3,000.

The Army demanded that he return part of his enlistment bonus because he had been injured and medically discharged before completing his enlistment. Jordan had signed up to serve his country and was injured in the line of duty, and now the Army was asking for its money back.

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Behold the genius that is the Groups News Blog's LowerManhattanite. Here's his blurb, stolen in full:

Being a Presidential candidate these days is about a lot more than experience...and smarts...and a a clear sense of right and wrong.

It's about how you smell, apparently. So, without any further ado, we here at ye olde GNB proudly present this short promotional piece for the new scent that's sweeping the nation! That is, if "the nation" means a TV soundstage in Burbank, Chris Matthews' funky-ass den, and a bank of just-rented offices in a sun-blasted industrial park off I-40 in Knoxville. With that, we give you...

The Gilliard family has their obituary up at The News Blog:

 The Gilliard Family's Obituary for Steve

Steven Gilliard Jr., dynamic, controversial, left wing, editor and journalist of The News Blog (one of the top political blogging communities), died at Lenox Hill Hospital Saturday, June 2 after a lengthy illness. He was 42 years old. Steven was a highly regarded journalist, researcher, and historian. However, Steve was best known for his work in the blogosphere as a no-nonsense, in your face, liberal blogger who had cut his teeth while at Netslaves and Daily Kos before he published The News Blog.

The oldest child of Evelyn Gilliard (of the home) and Steven Gilliard Sr., (Manhattan), Steven displayed his passion with the written word as a young child and was reading the newspaper by the time he was three. This passion fueled his academic success throughout Hunter Elementary School, Hunter College High School, and New York University, where he received his degree in Journalism in 1989.

Sen. Sheila Kuehl, the author of the state's most popular universal health care proposal, nicely waltzes through the Schwarzenegger plan, and leaves no doubt that it's a patchwork that won't, in the end, fix a thing.

Kuehl's key points after the jump.

Zero fugitive al Qaeda killed.

Yet another screw up that killed dozens more innocent bystanders than bad guys.

A few days ago, the US bombed a group suspected of including al Qaeda fugitives in southern Somalia linked to the Clinton-era US embassy bombings. Now, news is leaking back from the ground. NGOs associated with Oxfam report...

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Not safe for work, not much of a diary. Kudos to Raw Story. Don't jump, or follow the link, for the least family friendly picture of our favorite Republican.

Ever wonder how to have a guaranteed hotspot at your next election war room? How about being able to bring along and share a connection at a disaster site?

I came across a fairly affordable way to have your own hotspot around any major city or highway and wanted to share it with community: the Aircard-based hotspot...

In a key triumph in the right wing assault on the press, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik's blog was suspended over allegations of ethical breaches by Hiltzik posting pseudonymously in threads.

The Times has suspended Michael Hiltzik's Golden State blog on latimes.com. Hiltzik admitted Thursday that he posted items on the paper's website, and on other websites, under names other than his own. That is a violation of The Times ethics guidelines, which requires editors and reporters to identify themselves when dealing with the public. The policy applies to both the print and online editions of the newspaper. The Times is investigating the postings.

The big guns need to weigh in on this one.

I Googled for updates on an earlier post, and found two stories, one in the ModBee, one in the Chron, that together tell a touching story and illuminate the humanity of one of our Iraq War casualties. The loss of life in Iraq has become impersonally regular, it shouldn't have.

The Chron:

"She was an angel on earth. She really was."

"If she saw someone on the street just struggling with a bag, she would get out and go help her," Lopez said. "I remember she saw a lady walking and it was raining, and she gave her a ride. We asked her, 'Did you know that woman?' She said, 'No, but -- did you know it was raining?' "

As a student at Johansen High School in Modesto, Navarro became involved with the Peer Assisted Learning program -- PALs -- working with special education children.