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The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Metro San Diego Chapter<\/a> voted Monday evening to endorse Tracy Emblem<\/a> for the 50th Congressional District race. <\/p>\n Four local clubs have endorsed Busby thus far: Chicano Democratic Association<\/a>, San Diego Democratic Club<\/a>, San Diego County Young Democrats<\/a>, and Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club<\/a>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PDA is the second progressive<\/a> organization to endorse Emblem this week. The Progressive Push PAC<\/a> endorsed Emblem on Saturday. Luis A. Cuevas, the National Director, stated on Emblem’s Facebook page that he was proud to endorse “the real progressive in California’s 50th Congressional District race”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, Emblem has the formal endorsement of four local labor unions<\/a>, while Busby has the endorsement of a national women’s political caucus<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, four San Diego Democratic clubs have withheld endorsements for this seat: Mesa Democratic Club<\/a>, Lake San Marcos Democratic Club<\/a>, Black Mountain Democratic Club<\/a>, and the Democratic Club of Oceanside\/Carlsbad<\/a>. These clubs are withholding a formal endorsement<\/a> until after the June 8, 2010 primary so that voters in their communities can decide upon the most viable candidate. After the primary, these clubs will endorse the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Metro San Diego Chapter<\/a> voted Monday evening to endorse Tracy Emblem<\/a> for the 50th Congressional District race. <\/p>\n Four local clubs have endorsed Busby thus far: Chicano Democratic Association<\/a>, San Diego Democratic Club<\/a>, San Diego County Young Democrats<\/a>, and Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club<\/a>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PDA is the second progressive<\/a> organization to endorse Emblem this week. The Progressive Push PAC<\/a> endorsed Emblem on Saturday. Luis A. Cuevas, the National Director, stated on Emblem’s Facebook page that he was proud to endorse “the real progressive in California’s 50th Congressional District race”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Additionally, Emblem has the formal endorsement of four local labor unions<\/a>, while Busby has the endorsement of a national women’s political caucus<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, four San Diego Democratic clubs have withheld endorsements for this seat: Mesa Democratic Club<\/a>, Lake San Marcos Democratic Club<\/a>, Black Mountain Democratic Club<\/a>, and the Democratic Club of Oceanside\/Carlsbad<\/a>. These clubs are withholding a formal endorsement<\/a> until after the June 8, 2010 primary so that voters in their communities can decide upon the most viable candidate. After the primary, these clubs will endorse the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990,11],"tags":[188,13,330,12,2478,464,8154],"class_list":["post-10985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990","category-11","tag-188","tag-13","tag-330","tag-12","tag-2478","tag-464","tag-8154"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Rb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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In a very transparent voting process where the member’s ballots were collected, counted and verified in front of all present, the final tally was 19 votes for Emblem, 7 votes for Busby and 2 voters chose to abstain. This brings Emblem’s local Democratic club endorsement tally up to three, which has her closing in on Francine Busby<\/a>, her competitor for incumbent Republican Brian Bilbray<\/a>‘s seat. The other local clubs endorsing Emblem include: North County Women’s Democratic Club<\/a> and Latino American Democratic Club<\/a>. <\/p>\n
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In a very transparent voting process where the member’s ballots were collected, counted and verified in front of all present, the final tally was 19 votes for Emblem, 7 votes for Busby and 2 voters chose to abstain. This brings Emblem’s local Democratic club endorsement tally up to three, which has her closing in on Francine Busby<\/a>, her competitor for incumbent Republican Brian Bilbray<\/a>‘s seat. The other local clubs endorsing Emblem include: North County Women’s Democratic Club<\/a> and Latino American Democratic Club<\/a>. <\/p>\n