Round-Up On The Candidates

San Francisco Chronicle: "The Bay Area's only competitive congressional race is expected to be in a district that sprawls from Contra Costa County to the Central Valley, where three Democrats are vying to take on Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy.

Liberal interest in this November's elections is being driven largely by the "netroots" -- people who became politically active during the Internet-driven 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean and, locally, as part of Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez's 2003 mayoral run in San Francisco.

"It's a nationwide phenomenon," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Berkeley, whose DailyKos.com is the nation's largest political blog, with 600,000 daily visitors. "And it's especially true around here, where the Pombo race is the most competitive race within a million miles of Berkeley.

"More people are realizing that they can't just get involved every four years," said Zuniga, who bought five new servers in anticipation of interest in election night 2006. " (more-at-source)

Filson

• His blog doesn't accept comments and his campaign is still doing some very interesting 'outreach' to the netroots.
• There really hasn't been much Filson news since the Clark endorsement and the backlash it caused locally.

McCloskey

McCloskey continues to get plenty of press nationally.

• The Nation: A Dragon Slayer Returns
• USA Today: Comeback candidates hear Capitol calling
• or you can always do a good ol' Google search

McNerney

• Jerry McNerney has several new blogs up Here.
• Down With Tyranny Blog endorses Jerry McNerney for Congress; "A Real Democrat" and adds to Act Blue fundraising page. I do suggest reading the endorsement, as well as the blog he links to at Say No To Pombo. I agree with a good deal of the analysis in both. This is an indicator of the netroots continuing to embrace Jerry McNerney, it's more netroots exposure, and considering the fact that Down With Tyranny has raised nearly $12,000 for various candidates, it could mean more grassroots/small donor funding for McNerney as well. In fact since the endorsement, 6 donors have contributed for a total of $110. That is people powered politics. Thanks to DWT for also linking to Progressive 11th and the other anti-Pombo/11th C.D. blogs as well.