A California congresswoman with long ties to both Clintons will endorse Obama today...

[ballsalicious]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9976.html

Rep. Capps to endorse Obama
By: Ben Smith
April 30, 2008 01:19 PM EST

A California congresswoman with long ties to both Clintons will announce her endorsement of Barack Obama today, a campaign source said.

Rep. Lois Capps, who represents a district on California’s central coast, is the third member of Congress to announce an endorsement of Senator Obama Wednesday, the day after he responded sharply to one of the deepest crises of his campaign, a confrontational and, he said, “appalling” set of remarks by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. The campaign is using the flurry of endorsements to shore up political support and demonstrate the frontrunner’s continuing strength.

“Barack Obama is the better choice because of something larger and perhaps more important. Simply put, he has made a call to the better angels of our nature. He is challenging us to lift ourselves out of the ugliness that increasingly consumes Washington, where the heat of your argument counts for more than the light it should bring,” Capps said in a statement. “He is asking us to stand together as Americans and transcend the traditional lines that have so often divided us by party affiliation, economic status, gender, or race.”

In her statement, Capps praised Clinton, but also suggested she’d been pushed to Obama by negative aspects of the campaign.

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Capps has long been close to both Clintons, who supported and raised money for her late husband, Rep. Walter Capps, and then for her in a campaign for what was then a contested seat.

Bill Clinton also spoke at the memorial service for her late husband, Rep. Walter Capps, whom the then-president described as “entirely too nice to be in Congress."

Capps’ daughter, Laura Burton Capps, also worked in the Clinton White House starting in 1995, first as an assistant to Clinton advisor George Stephanopolous and then as a speechwriter.

[LSparkle]

1. Yeah, Lois! She represents the Central Coast of CA (where I'm from)

Good on you!

[scheming daemons]

2. Since PA.... the SD count is 10 for Obama, 6 for Clinton......

If the rest of the SDs are anywhere NEAR that ratio, Obama will have MUCH more than needed.

[powergirl]

3. How many SD's have switched from Obama to Clinton?

:popcorn: I'm noticing this is a one way street.

[lapfog_1]

4. demcomwatch already has that story

and included him in the counts, I believe.

http://www.demconwatch.blogspot.com/

:woohoo:

Hillaries SD lead is now down to 18. But more important is that she needs to win the SD race by 3 to 1 or better and today it's Obama 3 and Hillary 1 (or 2 if rumors about someone named Luisette Cabanas are true).

[TahitiNut]

5. Burton Capps is married to Bill Burton?? So, her married name is Burton Burton???

:wow: Good argument for keeping one's own last name in a marriage ... and rejecting the traditions of chattel.

[cliffordu]

7. Hey - some of my best friends are chattels.....

:rofl: :rofl:

[onenote]

9. No. Laura Capps is married to Bill Burton and she goes by Laura Burton Capps.

or Laura Capps.

(I know because my wife has done work with her).

[LSparkle]

11. Isn't it Lois Capps?

Maybe I have the wrong Capps ...

[onenote]

13. talking about her daughter

who was mentioned in the story about Lois Capps' endorsement of Obama. Her daughter, Laura, is married to Bill BUrton, who is an Obama campaign official

[LSparkle]

14. Gotcha ... I haven't lived in the area for a while so I wondered if I was wrong

[TahitiNut]

20. Why not Laura Capps Burton? Isn't that the convention?

Hmmm.

I'm a guy who just doesn't like all the "what's in a name" changing, I guess.

[Cheap_Trick]

6. Judas!!

She owed, owed, OWED her support to the Clintons. Stop, break down, tantrum time.

[truthpusher]

18. Judas! Judas! Judas!

[Hope And Change]

8. K & R!

:kick:

[Coexist]

10. thanks for posting this

[truthpusher]

12. K & R

[me b zola]

15. To the better angels of our nature

:toast:

[myrna minx]

16. Yay! K&R n/t

[Raine]

17. TERRIFIC!!!

:thumbsup:

[Doityourself]

19. Judas sister!!!

[TragedyandHope]

21. Fantastic!

[Zhade]

22. NICE. Now, how many SD pick-ups for Obama is that this week?

Yep, he'll be the nom.

[graycem]

23. Yay for hope...

suck it, cynicism. :applause: