Senator to Visit California in Bid to Lock Down State
By Maria L. La Ganga and Michael Finnegan
Times Staff WritersMay 5, 2004
John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is taking two days away from the campaign's most hotly contested battleground states to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in East Los Angeles today and talk education in Colton on Thursday...
-- snip --...State Controller Steve Westly, co-chair of Kerry's California campaign, said Kerry was scheduled to return to the state in late June, but "whether he's here that much for the last 90 or 100 days [of the campaign] we'll just have to see..."
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...Today, Kerry will appear in El Sereno with Los Angeles City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa, Rep. Hilda L. Solis of El Monte and other Latinos at an event to celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Wilson High School, where nine of 10 students are Latinos.
The campaign is hoping that news coverage of the event could send a signal to Latinos nationwide that he is not taking them for granted.
Some Kerry supporters have raised doubts over the last week about his attentiveness to the nation's biggest and fastest-growing minority group...
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Kerry is Coming!! (California) ^ | May 2, 2004 | RonDog
Posted on 05/02/2004 6:46:35 PM PDT by RonDog
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To: RonDog
Flyers I'm bringing to the FREEPing of John Chancletero Kerry on Cinco de Mayo in East Los Angeles in the morning:
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