BBV: Andrew Gumbel On DemNow and In LA City Beat + More

Lots of new BBV coverage this morning...



MOCK THE VOTE
by Andrew Gumbel

Unlike some of the more fanciful lower-order candidates, Jerry Kunzman never deluded himself into thinking he could actually win the California gubernatorial recall election. In fact, the 39-year-old Bay Area entrepreneur, a registered Republican, never seriously entertained the notion of finishing in the top 10. So he was more than a little surprised to discover that, in rural Tulare County, he had finished fifth – behind Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cruz Bustamante, and Tom McClintock, but ahead of Peter Camejo and some of the more prominent dropout candidates such as Arianna Huffington, Bill Simon, and Peter Ueberroth.

http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=343&IssueNum=21

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Rachel Konrad's latest….
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Plus…

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Get back up there...

There's another kick for you....

(that's Electronic Frontier Foundation). They are defending an ISP against Diebold's take-down request. Holt was explaining his HAVA amendment and the "paper trail" (which Bev has asked us to call a "paper ballot" so it is not confused with an after-the-vote record).