We're # 4!

BlognetNews.com ranks Mayor Sam #4 in California!

Open Thread for Monday: #8 Liberal Blog in California

It had to happen sometime. Mayor Sam is now a liberal blog. Tell that to the folks who think we're a "right ractist blog."

(Maybe this now qualifies us for government funding.)

California's Most Influential Political blogs

Liberal Influence

Measures the impact that left-leaning blogs have on the conversation among left-leaning blogs. Blogs that score higher on the liberal influence measure than they do on the "Official" measure may have fewer posts the other side considers controversial or simply discuss issues of more interest within the liberal community than to a wider audience.

Rank	Blog	Prev
1	LA Observed	3
2	Seeing the Forest	7
2	Calitics	2
4	Liberal OC	4
4	Politics in the Zeros	5
6	California Progress Report	1
7	GregDewar.com	15
8	Mayor Sam's Sister City	9
8	uggabugga	8
10	TomDispatch	11
11	Left In SF	10
12	The RBC	6
13	Capital Notes	17
14	Stuart O'Neill's Political Interviews	-
15	Speak Out California	20
15	Lying Media Bastards	-
17	Davenetics	14
18	Jerry McNerney	18
19	Broad View	19
20	Political Dogfight	16

What A Week It Was!

Thanks to all the antics of our elected local LA leaders and others, this was a great week for the blog. Unique visits to the blog were up nearly 170% and pageviews 217% over the same week in May. Even weekend traffic - notoriously slow - is four times normal.

I also had the privilege to appear on Kevin James radio show. Kevin's support of the blog has been phenomenal. Too, many of our writers have recently appeared on various radio programs.

The news we got today was also exciting: the blog moved up on BlogNetNews.com's California Influence Index from number14 out of twenty last week to number 7 - ahead of the Westside White Guy and the highest rated LA county based blog on the list.

And in case you missed any of it all, here are some of the highlight posts:

• City Lets Illegals Revoke Citizen's Permit
• The Small Town Rocky Delgadillo
• Daily News blog Friendly Fire getting dustier
• The REAL Reason LA Times Decided To Print Rocky Delgadillo "Dirt" NOW: To HELP Villariagosa's City Attorney Candidate Jackass Weiss!
• Soncha and Baby Villar Watch Day 9 "Spinning Letter to the Editor"