by Karen Kostoff [courtesy of Blog for America]

Hi DFA Member;

I know you all heard from me or Teresa calling or emailing to find out who you support to be the nominee in the Democratic Presidential Caucus next week. Originally intended to have this done before the Iowa Caucus. That's why some answers reflect GREAT candidates that have since dropped out. Reason being, we had a hard time hearing back from people. So of our 183 members between Las Vegas and Henderson we actually only got 49 responses.

Unfortunately, we had some wrong numbers or emails. So it would be great if you could log in to your DFA account and update your profiles for us.

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by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

Senator Clinton appeared at the National Association of Black Journalists conference and seized an opportunity to attack GOP talking points against universal health care. See this New York Times blog post about it:

A Testy Exchange on Health Care

LAS VEGAS – Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton just had an awfully testy exchange over universal health care with an audience member here at the National Association of Black Journalists conference – a lively moment that ended with an artful diss from Mrs. Clinton that had the audience hooting.

The audience member – who later identified himself as Kiara Ashanti, a freelance writer and blogger and a Republican – asked Mrs. Clinton why she was “still insisting” on bringing British- and Canada-style “socialized medicine” to the United States, asserting that such forms of universal care would hurt the black community.

“Oh man, I can’t answer that in 30 seconds, that was a string of misrepresentations,” Mrs. Clinton, a Democratic presidential candidate, told the gathering of more than 1,000 black reporters, editors, and other journalists.

“I have never advocated socialized medicine, and I hope all the journalists hear that,” she said. “That has been a right-wing attack on me for 15 years.”

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by Julia Rosen [courtesy of Working Californians blogs]

SEIU is continuing it's series of inviting the presidential contenders to spend a day alongside one of their members from the beginning of their day at home through their workday. Edwards was the first one up, now Richardson takes his turn.

Richardson was in Las Vegas with Mark Fitzgerald, a health care social worker and single foster parent. Here is the video diary of his experience.

You can learn more at Walk a Day in My Shoes. There is also an interview two SEIU members did with Richardson on the current health care crisis.