Mary Bono claims false endorsements

The Desert Sun:

La Quinta Mayor Don Adolph has not endorsed Rep. Mary Bono this year in her re-election bid for the 45th Congressional District seat, though her Web site suggested otherwise - as recently as Friday when Adolph called and asked that his name be removed immediately. On her endorsement page, Bono listed Adolph and other officials, including Hemet Mayor Lyle Alberg, who also said he has not endorsed Bono for the 2006 race.

The Sun also notes that they have yet to endorse a candidate in the 2006 election, and they, too, are listed as endorsing Mary Bono on her site.

Bono's site has since removed Aldoph's name from the endorsement list, but still has Alberg and the Desert Sun listed. There is no reason given for either the phantom endorsement or it's removal.

*UPDATE* When I posted this morning, only about half of the article that is now posted online was there. The explination is what I figured:

Anyone who has ever endorsed Bono appears on the Web site list - unless someone has specifically requested his or her name be removed, said Sabrina L. Garcia, Bono's political director.

"We don't do, like, a clean slate and take everybody off and put new people on," Garcia said. "We add people to it as we get more people but unless somebody says, 'Please remove my name,' we don't remove them. Typically when people endorse her they kind of always endorse her."

Which should leave everyone wondering who's actually endorsing Bono for 2006 and who's left over from the last election cycle.