Cross posted at Daily Kingfish and Daily Kos.

The Cazayoux campaign released this web-only video about the race:

Don's candidacy has sparked a fire amongst the unions here in LA-06. While they've worked with political candidates before, I've never seen them this excited about a candidate. If you like the idea of adding to the Democratic majority in the House with someone who will be there with us on the economic issues we all care about, then donate.

I also had the opportunity to interview Don, using questions from commenters here at Daily Kos, MyDD, and Daily Kingfish. The interview is below the jump!

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What's for dinner?

Fruit and Veggies laced with pesticides?
Oysters tainted with Listeria?
Shrimp sautéed with Salmonella?
Spinach with a side of E. coli?
Just plain filthy fish?

Hungry yet? In the last couple months, I know many of us have thought twice while picking our food for our families at the supermarket, and we should. The CDC estimates that 76 million Americans suffer from foodborne illnesses every year, 325,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 die.

While the mainstream media is happy to tell the public of the great threats to their health and safety, scaring them stiff into watching the evening news, they rarely ask why the flood of dangerous imports is happening and of our leaders, what can be done to stop it.

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It's a point I looked at in principle a day or two back.

But, according to a CQpiece from last week that somehow passed me by, it's a question that's being raised by Dem reps:

The lopsided number of Democratic votes against the war funding bill has House liberals worried about how often Speaker Nancy Pelosi will cut centrist deals, leaving the liberal base out of the loop on policy decisions.

The agreement to provide $120 billion in funding for the Iraq War and other initiatives (HR 2206) advanced despite the opposition of 61 percent of House Democrats, including Pelosi, D-Calif.

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For some time (earlier piece) Rangel has been negotiating with USTR Susan Schwab on terms under which the already signed free trade agreements (technically trade promotion agreements) with Colombia, Peru, Korea and Panama can receive Congressional approval.

(Apparently, under US law, trade agreements are treated as congressional-executive agreements, not treaties.)

The stumbling block has been the Dem demand for a revision to the signed treaties making a commitment by each party to abide by ILO standards enforceable by the other party.

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Caveat maxime lector.

But Reuters reports today that

The White House and the U.S. Congress are close to a deal on labor and other issues that have blocked approval of free trade pacts with Peru, Colombia and Panama, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Monday.

"We're very hopeful by the end of the week ... we can overcome the last obstacle that we have," House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, a New York Democrat, said in a speech.

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