[courtesy of Blog for America]

In addition to the primaries in Montana and South Dakota, a number of states will have state primaries on June 3rd:

Alabama

California

Iowa

Montana

New Jersey

New Mexico

South Dakota

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by Barbara Wold [courtesy of Blog for America]

The voting ended late last week and the votes are counted. Members of the Albuquerque DFA-Democracy for New Mexico Meetup group were polled on the candidates they wanted the group to officially endorse in a number of this year's Dem primary races. They included the NM-01 race for U.S. House, three State Senate races and one State House contest. Here are the results and responses from some of the winners:

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by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Over the flip you'll find the weekly 50 (more or less) state roundup. Thanks to Betsy of BlueNC for this week's roundup.

New Mexico 
   The greatest YouTube video you will ever see, featuring Republican candidate for House in NM-01, Darren White.  He's telling us to just say no.  Impossible not to watch more than once.

Virginia 
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California 
   CA-12: Tom Lantos could get a challenge from former state senator Jackie Speier.

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

Nathan Gonzalez is former political director of Latinos for America and a former Dean for America staffer in Iowa and New Mexico. He is author of Engaging Iran: The Rise of a Middle East Powerhouse and America’s Strategic Choice. 

It’s early January, 2004, and I’m standing outside of a food packaging plant in Southwestern Iowa in below freezing temperatures. You can tell who I am by my Dean for America pin, but little more. My eyes are barely visible; my breath freezing under the inadequate scarf I had brought from California. 

Finally, a young Latino worker comes out, and I rush to him, asking in Spanish, “Can I bother you for a second?”

Back then, the war had been raging for less than a year, but most Democratic candidates were beginning to switch their campaign tone from decidedly pro-war, to something of an anti-war position. It was interesting to watch. For me, I had chosen to support Howard Dean, not because I am a pacifist (I am not), but because he made the most sense. His opposition to the Iraq War was not based on ideology, but on facts. On issues of war and peace, there should be nothing more sacred than facts.

by Leighton Woodhouse [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Some Calitics readers will be familiar with The League of Young Voters (formerly known as "The League of Pissed Off Voters") from the phenomenal work of their chapters in San Francisco and the Inland Empire.  Here in California, the League's work mobilizing activists to knock on doors in Nevada for the 2004 presidential election and walk precincts in their own neighborhoods in the 2005 state special election was nothing short of heroic.  No less impressive are the accomplishments of League chapters in Maine, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin.

The League is looking for a new Executive Director.  If you have the chops to lead an enormously energetic organization doing hardcore political work, or know someone else who does, read beneath the fold for a job description.

by Lucas O'Connor [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Working Californians blogs]

Gov. Richardson just released the third in a series of humorous ads with a job interview theme. This one is on his energy plan and his record in New Mexico.