by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

...than gobs and gobs of dollars to fuel political campaigns.

Russ Warner's campaign in CA-26 is reporting over $100,000 raised, with around $150,000 COH.

Unfortunately, that's all I can find for California Q2 right now.  Maybe I should leave this to the professionals like Dave Dayen.  Post reports in the comments, and I'll keep updating.

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Doesn't offer as much introduction to Warner as I'd like, but it is a good attack on Dreier, imho.

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Jerry McNerney is among the superdelegates who are meeting with Hillary Clinton today.

According to this DailyKos diary, the Congressman's office is keeping track of who calls and what they have to say, so if you're a California blogger--especially one who helped McNerney--feel free to make your opinion known (whatever that opinion is).

Here's the number:

925-833-0643

Now that there are more undecided superdelegates than pledged delegates, I guess that calling Congressional offices is now more important than calling voters...

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Well well...after a marathon 4+ hour session in room C3/4 of the San Jose Convention Center, we have a working platform draft that will apparently be up for more discussion Saturday night.

You may be interested in hearing what happened on the more controversial issues:

Death penalty: All motions tabled pending completion of a questionnaire.  Every delegate has a "death penalty questionnaire" in the convention bag.  When the results of the survey are finally tabulated, we'll have some sort of consensus for moving forward.

Assisted suicide: Untouched by consent of everyone involved.

Single Payer: Publicly funded, privately delivered.

Any other questions, please put them in the comments.  As soon as I get a full draft of everything I'll post it for your review (provided it's not in a PDF).

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

I've been in Austin since Saturday afternoon campaigning for Obama in whatever way possible--I'll give a full report of my activities soon, but the bottom line is that it involves riding on the interstate in the bed of a pickup truck.

It also involves getting some drinks with KT of Burnt Orange Report and our own Brian, who went to school around these parts.

Fun times.  I'm very fond of Austin, and am looking forward to coming back for Netroots Nation.

More to come, but another busy day awaits tomorrow.

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Word is getting out that the State Council of SEIU has indeed endorsed Barack Obama.  Given the fact that the election is four days away, we'll see how much of a difference those 650,000 members are able to make on Tuesday.

I'll update with a release when I've gotten it.

by Dante Atkins (hekebolos) [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

kos (DailyKos founder) has a thread up asking you to convince him to vote yes on any of the ballot measures.  His default is to vote no on everything because he hates the ballot initiative process (as do I), but maybe you can earn a vote for your favorite initiative by chiming in.

Personally, I asked for him to vote yes on prop 92.