California Democrat Francine Busby lost a heated 2006 race against Republican Brian Bilbray that was plagued by voting irregularities and a hasty swearing in of Bilbray by then Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert.

Fast forward to last Friday night, and a Busby fundraiser for her 2010 run that ended in what appears to be a gross miscarriage of justice and innocent people being assaulted with pepper spray and physically abused -- all based on a bogus complaint from a bigot in the neighborhood:

ENCINITAS — Francine Busby says she will demand an explanation from the Sheriff's Department about deputies breaking up a fundraising party held for her in Cardiff and arresting the host.

The party was Friday night in the 1300 block of Rubenstein Avenue, the home of Shari Barman, a Busby supporter.

It ended with Barman, 60, being arrested and jailed on suspicion of battery on a peace officer, and resisting, delaying and obstructing a peace officer.

Pam Morgan, 62, a Rancho Santa Fe resident and one of the guests, also was arrested and taken to the Encinitas Sheriff's Station, where she was cited for resisting, delaying and obstructing a peace officer.

Here's where things get interesting. Apparently, the hosts of the fundraiser are a lesbian couple and they just happen to have one nasty, homophobic neighbor:

During Busby's speech, Barman said in a statement yesterday, a man on the property behind her house shouted “disparaging remarks” about Busby and gay people. Barman lives in the house with her partner, Jane Stratton, 55.

“It was a quiet home reception, disrupted by a vulgar person shouting obscenities from behind the bushes,” Busby said. Read on...

This situation was clearly mishandled by the officers involved and I hope Francine and her friends get a formal and very public apology and that all charges in the matter are dropped. C&L helped raise money for her in 2006, how about we do it again for 2010? Please visit Francine Busby's website and show her some love and support!

Reader B: "I was at the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner on Thursday 3/30, and Joe Shh-ed the crowd 4 times. It reminded me a lot of Dr. Evil, so I made this short video."
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We're doing really good on the Act Blue page I recently started.

Keep the donations coming for Ned Lamont and Francine Busby if you can.

Stakeholder:

"This is the last ditched effort of the Delay-Cunningham machine to hold onto power in this district,” said Busby’s Communications Director Brennan Bilberry. “Voters of the 50th District are fed up with their corrupt system and these misleading negative attacks will certainly backfire.”

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Joe Klein started off today on "THIS WEEK," sounding fairly reasonable in the discussion about Iran and then veered off into neocon, kool-aid drinking lunacy. George Stephanopoulos was even caught off guard by Klein's statements. Does he seriously believe that including nukes whether we attack, discuss or threaten is not seen as a doomsday scenario? We are talking about nukes Joe, freaking nukes.
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Klein: We should not take any option including the use of nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons off the table...

Stephanopoulos: Keep that on the table?-That's insane...

One of the main points of Sy Hersh's article is that the inclusion of nukes in an attack plan against Iran has the military leaders freaked out and they are demanding it be pulled or they will quit. It seems that Klein doesn't share those views.

To add more right wing spin into his arguments today, Klein proclaimed that if Francine Busby wins the San Diego election-it'll be "over reported" in the media. Even George Will suggested that it was a win-win situation for the Democrats-and if she won it would be like an earthquake. So who is the liberal and who is the right winger?

(Raw Story has a small transcript...)

She's running for the Dukestir's seat in San Diego now that he's getting 8 years for "accepting bribes and public corruption of various sorts."

As Atrios notes: "Francine Busby gave the Democrats' radio address today"

Please donate if you can.

Democratic congressional candidate Francine Busby – running in the San Diego seat vacated by the resignation of disgraced former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham - delivered the national Democratic Radio Address. Busby addressed a national audience on Saturday when she talked about the importance of protecting U.S. ports to our national security.

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She's got a great chance to win the seat. If you can throw a few dollars her way-that would be nice.

Francine Busby

Two weeks from today, Francine's election comes up to see who gains Cunningham's seat in San Diego. The Dukester just had some of his antiques auctioned off. Howie says she's doing well.

Support her if you can.

Kaloogian's funky photo

Francine Busby must have this guy nervous to post a funky photo.

The General has created a new campaign poster for Kaloogian

We might have found out the mystery now. (via Atrios)

as Kos points out: Location? The Istanbul suburb of Bakirkoy. And for those taking score at home, that's not in Iraq. It's in Turkey. Another GOoPer liar exposed thanks to people-powered media. (with pictures)

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After being exposed as frauds, Kaloogian responds to the fake picture of Iraq posted. Duncan has the new picture posted which is even more ridiculous because of how they use it.

"We have corrected it with a photograph we took from Baghdad. We took this photo of downtown Baghdad while we were in Iraq. Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be. But, each day the news media finds any violence occurring in the country and screams and shouts about it - in part because many journalists are opposed to the U.S. effort to fight terrorism."

Let's talk to the families of the journalists that lost their lives. Check out the picture posted. Just another reason to support Francine Busby.

Update: Look for this story to be on Olbermann tonight.

Keith Olbermann gives the dubious honor to Kaloogian for the phony photograph.
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Go Francine Busby.

Kevin Drum: What's also interesting is that Francine Busby has 45% of the vote compared to 46% for the combined Republicans in this heavily Republican district. Hmmm.

For those of you who don't know, Kaloogian is supported by Move America Forward.