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PELOSI’S LESBIAN OPPONENT IN JUNE 3 DEM HOUSE PRIMARY HAS SOME SUPPORT

[ The Huffington Post]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be in for the campaign battle of her life during the June 3 primary election. (We hope.).

Pelosi's opponent, Shirley Golub, says Pelosi has never had an opponent since she won her first race for Congress 20 years ago.

But Golub has been pulling the top spot for weeks at actblue.com, where bloggers supporting Democrats go to give campaign contributions. According to one source Golub is a lesbian who came "out" after divorcing her former husband.

Golub says she's received some spotty local media coverage, but just about no national coverage, even though the campaign involves the seat of the woman who is two heartbeats away from the presidency.

Shirley Golub is a former speech and language therapist, a realtor and entrepreneur who reports she got disgusted with Pelosi's not ending the war or putting impeachment back on the table.
She's running to win in Pelosi's very liberal San Francisco district and with limited resources and what she estimates at less than one tenth the funding Pelosi has (Pelosi has been reported to be the House's top fundraiser.) Golub says shes been getting a great response. "Some people bring up the point that she's speaker of the house, but I ask them what she's done for them. Nothing." But most people, she reports, agree with her that Pelosi has failed to stop the war, Pelosi has continued to fund the war and has kept impeachment of criminals Bush and Cheney off the table.
OUR TAKE: Democrats should vote for Shirley Golub in the June 3 primary for another reason: The Speaker’s blatant favoritism and bias against Hillary Clinton. Don’t like the Speaker’s heavy handed attempts to sink Clinton’s chances? VOTE FOR SHIRLEY GOLUB ON JUNE 3 AND SEND NANCY PELOSI A MESSAGE TO STOP PUTTING HER THUMB ON THE NOMINATING SCALE.

NANCY PELOSI “UNDEMOCRATIC", PRO CLINTON PAC FOUNDER SAYS

[USA Today]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's vow yesterday that she will "step in" and put an end to Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid if she has not dropped out on her own by June 3, 2008 is not sitting well with some Clinton supporters, USA Today reports. Specifically, Allida Black, a professor at George Washington University and co-founder of the WomenCount PAC, which wants Clinton to get the nominationation.

“I thought it was undemocratic," Black said about what Pelosi told The San Francisco Chronicle yesterday. Never in the history of our party have we precluded any candidate from going to the convention floor. ... I'm an elected delegate from the state of Virginia. ... She has no right as a leader of this party to say the party has to make a decision before the convention. That's what the convention was created to do. ... I don't want Nancy Pelosi telling me who my nominee is."

For her part, Pelosi had this to say to the Chronicle about WomenCount, which has in recent weeks bought full-page ads in USA TODAY and other newspapers to make its case that that Clinton should not be forced out of the race:

"God bless their enthusiasm. ... These women are fabulous, and I know many of them very well." But, while "we all want to see a woman president ... they want me to be the chair of the convention, who is neutral. And yet they want me to be for Hillary Clinton."

Eh, um, no Speaker Pelosi. We Clinton supporters do not want you to be “for” Hillary Clinton, we just want you to stop trying to rig the process for Barack Obama. And we find your feigned "neutrality" to be hypocritical in the extreme, since you have done everything in your power to publicy undermine Hillary Clinton's campaign and get her to drop out of the race.

ATTENTION HRC SUPPORTERS: NANCY PELOSI IS UP FOR REELECTION

For those Hillary Clinton supporters from Speaker Pelosi’s district who have been frustrated by the Speaker’s thumb on the Obama-Clinton scale—not or the “good of the Party, but due to Pelosi’s Clinton hatred—relief is at hand!

The Democratic Primary election for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is on June 3.

We urge you to vote for a woman, just not her.

SPEAKER PELOSI ONCE AGAIN PLACES HER THUMB ON THE OBAMA SCALE

[San Francisco Chronicle]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi will personally “step in” and prevent Hillary Clinton’s bid to take her nomination fight to the Democratic National Convention in August, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said "I will step in" if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.

"For now, 2,026 is the magic number" of pledged and unpledged delegates needed by a candidate to win the party's presidential nomination, she said, but "if they decide to seat (Florida and Michigan) this weekend, there will be a new magic number."

While saying she believes those two states' delegates should be seated, Pelosi added that it must happen ''in a way that is not destructive to any sense of order in the party."

"If you have no order and no discipline in terms of party rules, people will be having their primary in the year before the presidential election," she said. "So there has to be some penalty."

She said the party committee will come up with a formula that is "fair and accepted by both campaigns," perhaps allowing the states 50 percent of their delegates. But "if the resolution is not appropriate, then it remains for the (Democratic National Convention) credentials committee to resolve it," she said. Then, "it will have to happen by the end of June" or she will intervene, she said.

OUR TAKE: If the HRC supporters registered to vote in Speaker Pelosi’s district vote for one of her opponents in the June, 2008 Democratic primary for the Speaker’s seat in the House, maybe she will get the message that she should refrain from trying to influence the outcome of voting by the DNC Rules Committee this week-end, and the Credentials Committee (should Senator Clinton chose to take it that far).

FIDEL CASTRO ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA

[Telegraph-UK]

The former Cuban president Fidel Castro gave a qualified endorsement to presidential candidate Barack Obama whom he described as "the most-advanced candidate" in the race for the White House.

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SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN BACKS OBAMA-CLINTON ‘DREAM TICKET’

[The Associated Press]

At least there are two San Francisco Bay Area super-delegates that we do not have to oppose when they are up for re-election. The first is Barbra Boxer—who announced that because Clinton carried California in the primary she will support Clinton’s bid for the nomination—and the second is loyal Clinton supporter Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Feinstein said Friday that she believes that if Obama becomes the nominee he should select Clinton as his running mate, the Associated Press reported an hour ago.

"I think as this race has emerged each one of them has garnered a different constituency and different states, and therefore when you put the two of them together it forms, I believe, the strongest ticket," she told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

"Women feel very strongly about Hillary and African-Americans feel very strongly about Barack, and the election results show that, and the young versus old, the higher educated versus the working person ... All these things are sort of separated out into one or the other so there is a logic in combining the two constituences."

Feinstein is a longtime friend and supporter of Clinton's. So would Clinton accept the vice-presidency?

"I think anyone accepts if asked — whatever they say," Feinstein said.

Meanwhile, Obama campaign denied reports that there were talks going on between the two campaigns about putting Clinton on the ticket. But they would, wouldn’t they?