June 2008 Archives

He is now accepting contact information from supporters who would like to be sent updates on how to get tickets.

Readers called about the lack of election coverage in the the 26th Congressional seat, which David Dreier now occupies. Resources generally prevented us from covering the primaries between Republicans Dreier and Sonny Sardo and Democrats Cynthia Matthews and Warner. (That includes Libertarian candidate Ted Brown who garnered 188 votes.) One of the reasons we covered others was because the primaries would dictate the eventual winners considering how the lines are drawn. With Warner and Dreier now official rivals, we will be covering the race a bit more closely.

NYT: Today, a performance artist tried to set up an art exhibition in Manhattan with the title, "The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama,"
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"Asked whether the artwork was being seen as dangerous, (Police Commissioner Ray) Kelly said: "Obviously, it sounds totally inappropriate. We need more information as to what the purpose of it was. As I say, apparently he made some statements that he was referring to their reputations ... don't know, we will have to get more information. But he is being questioned now by our detectives and the Secret Service."

"Soviet premier, Joseph Stalin, routinely airbrushed his enemies out of images. In this photo, a commissar was removed from the original photograph after falling out of favor with Stalin."

Tuesday, New York Times: On a talk show last fall, a prominent political analyst named Mikhail G. Delyagin had some tart words about Vladimir V. Putin. When the program was later televised, Mr. Delyagin was not.
Not only were his remarks cut -- he was also digitally erased from the show, like a disgraced comrade airbrushed from an old Soviet photo.

In an early sample of voter turnout in Los Angeles County, about 8.10 percent of eligible voters voted, according to the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk. The Feb. 5 Presidential Primary Election showed nearly 20 percent at the same time period. Past samplings ranged from 9.51 percent in 2002 to 11.84 percent in 2006.
*UPDATE:Sampling this afternoon pegged turnout as 17.72 percent as compared to 38.32 percent Feb. 5.

AP: "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy on Monday, killing at least six people just weeks after an al-Qaida leader urged attacks against Denmark for newspaper caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad."
Here are the cartoons.