Today's Fresh Meat

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone back to sticking with strict neutralityin the race between Senators Obama and Clinton, based on her statementat the California Democratic convention that “both of them are great”,reports the San Francisco Chronicle. (The third of the 66 Californiasuperdelegates have yet to choose their candidate, however, wereperhaps hoping for a tip.) Maybe it’s because of that letter from thebig, bad Clinton donors?

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), on other hand, has freely expressed his opinion that Hillary Clinton should drop out of the racefor the good of the Democratic party, reports the LA Times. Accordingto Leahy, “"Sen. Clinton has every right, but not a very good reason,to remain a candidate for as long as she wants to."

Californians have (slightly) decreased their consumption of gasoline two years in a row,which is unprecedented behavior outside of a serious recession, reportsthe SF Chron. According to Daniel Sperling, head of the UC DavisInstitute of Transportation Studies, "The time of gasoline-useincreases is probably over.”

Photo courtesy of Dai Sugano of the San Jose Mercury News.