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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton added one more superdelegate to her tally last night when one of her supporters won a special election to fill a vacant California congressional seat. Democrat Jackie Speier, a former State Senator, won 77 percent of the vote in her bid to replace Tom Lantos, who died of cancer in February. READ THE STORY ON POLITICKERCA.COM.

$237,504,148: That’s the total value of the 187 pork barrel projects secured from the federal government by Kentucky’s Congressional delegation during the most recent fiscal year, according to the 2008 Pig Book.

Nationwide, Citizens Against Government Waste found $17.2 billion in pork barrel projects in the 12 appropriation bills passed by Congress during FY 2008. Kentucky ranks 18th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in such spending, $56 per capita.