From Shum Preston at the California Nurses Association, one of the groups who organized the protest against Schwarzenegger at the Stones concert.

We’re having California Nurses Night at the August 30 Anaheim Angels game…which just COINCIDENTALLY happens to be the same night Arnold’s having a fundraiser there. 

Attaching a flyer. (PDF)

You can also check us out at www.cna.blogs.com/stoparnold

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Clay Claiborne at BushVacationBodyCount emails after Polizeros blogged about his site.

Good show!  Just updated the number to 67.  It’s been three or four American soldiers every day now for about a week, and since the military like to brag about a hundred-to-one kill ratio, we can only imagine the number of Iraqis.

I think we should put that growing number front and center and consciously attempt to shame Bush into cutting his vacation short. I mean really, what kind of “Commander-in-Chief” goes on vacation when he has soldiers dying in the field? I think even the pro-war folks would have a problem with that.  I also think it creates another lose-lose situation for Bush. If he cuts short his vacation and returns to D.C. early he will appear to be yielding to the pressure, and if he doesn’t, he just looks like an asshole as the death count get higher.

Anyway I decided last night to go to Crawford this weekend.

Polizeros will post Clay’s reportback from Camp Casey!

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Eli at Lefti on the News emailed me yesterday saying I’m getting hundreds of hits off your site from my story you posted about the empty pro-Bush ‘camp” in Crawford. This didn’t happen when you first posted it. Any idea what’s happening?

Here’s what happened. I emailed Crooks and Liars about the Polizeros post on Arnold getting booed at the Stones concert. They linked to it, and Polizeros got several thousand hits (Thanks, John!).

Right under the Stones story was the post about the empty pro-Bush camp. Readers clicking through from C&L saw that and went to Lefti, so they got hundreds of hits.
 
And that is how blogs spread news fast (Listservs too - I got the Stones story from the Rock and Rap Confidential listserv.)

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Schwarzenegger’s ballot measures aren’t winning wide support and his job rating is down to 34%.

According to the poll, Schwarzenegger’s plan to curb state spending, Proposition 76, is failing by a wide margin, with only 28% of likely voters saying that they would vote “yes.” The governor has said this is his most important proposal on the ballot.

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L.A., under the behest of the new mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, is ordering businesses that have commissioned murals on their own property to paint them over or have them redone with city-approved art because they might look like grafitti.

Who determines what is art and what is grafitti (and so what if it resembles grafitti?), and why is that the business of the city? I see lots of murals in L.A. on private property, most of them quite good, yet our pretend liberal mayor wants to eliminate them?

A small but instructive example of how Villaraigosa, who used to be a genuine progressive, has become a mouthpiece for corporate interests. They don’t want vibrant, home-grown art when, y’know, it could be bland art that promotes real estate values instead. Watch what Villaraigosa does, not what he says.

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