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Obama and McCain speak at La Raza Convention
Sen. Barack Obama promised yesterday that he would make overhauling immigration policy a top priority of his first year in office if he is elected president as he chided Republican John McCain for backing away from his own comprehensive immigration bill.
Obama addressed the four-day National Council of La Raza conference, which has attracted more than 20,000 people to the San Diego Convention Center. McCain, a senator from Arizona and the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting, will address the convention today.
“I know Senator McCain used to buck his party on immigration in fighting for comprehensive reform, and I admired him for it and joined him in it,” Obama said in his speech. “But when he was running for his party’s nomination, he abandoned that courageous stand and said that he wouldn’t even support his own legislation if it came up for a vote. . .
Anxious IndyMac customers line up to get their money
Nervous customers of IndyMac Bank today lined up at branches in Pasadena and elsewhere, anxious to withdraw their money from the failed institution that was seized by federal regulators late last week.
With some arriving as early as 4 a.m., fueled by coffee and packing lawn chairs and stools in anticipation of a lengthy stay, depositors waited for the bank to reopen at 9 a.m. It has been closed since Friday.
“I called in sick,” said Margie Harbottle, 62, a vocational counselor from Pasadena who arrived around 8:30 a.m. “This is going to take a couple hours. I just hope it doesn’t get too hot. . .
Schwarzenegger slams Bush administration on global warming
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the Bush administration’s decision to delay a decision on regulating greenhouse gases showed that it did not believe in global warming.
Schwarzenegger, in an interview with ABC television broadcast Sunday, said it would have been insincere for the administration to take action on the harmful emissions with only six months left in George W. Bush’s presidency.
“Well, to be honest with you, if they would have done something this year, I would have thought it was bogus anyway… because you don’t change global warming and you don’t really have an effect by doing something six months before you leave office,” he told ABC on Friday. . .
A Brentwood physician charged Friday with stopping his car suddenly in front of two cyclists was investigated earlier this year in another case of road rage against bicycles, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
Christopher Thomas Thompson, 59, was charged with two felony counts each of reckless driving causing injury and battery with serious bodily injury in connection with a July 4 crash.
The LAPD said that Thompson was involved in a similar crash March 11. . .
