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This is from the National Education Association's Email received today: We are engaging in a comprehensive presidential recommendation process designed to ensure that NEA's candidate recommendation won't be based on personalities or partisanship. It won't be about who is more liberal or more conservative. It will be about what's best for students; what's best for educators; and what's best for public education, our communities, and our nation. NEA's recommendation process is fair, bipartisan, and open. A candidate's political party is never taken into consideration, and all presidential candidates, whether they are Republican or Democrat, are invited to participate. To be...

Democratic candidates spend time in church The Democratic candidates for governor went to church on Sunday and prayed for victory, as well they might in a race that is neck and neck heading into Tuesday's primary. Steve Westly, who made his fortune at eBay, and Phil Angelides, a wealthy former developer, have been battering each other with nasty television ads for several weeks. Analysts say voters may respond to the negativity campaign by not voting. Westly, the state controller, appeared with Rep. Diane Watson, D-Los Angeles, at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, which he joined three...