Linda Sanchez

Gov. Jon Corzine at the convention.: Politicker photo 

DENVER - The clash of speaking styles could not have been more dramatic.

There was U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-Paterson), consigning Karl Rove to the most fiery furnaces of Dante’s Inferno, and putting extra incisors in the teeth of the party attack dog on the tail end of a Thursday breakfast in which half the crowd had appeared asleep before Pascrell arrived and roused them.

Then came Gov. Jon Corzine, and one could almost imagine the house lights again going way down as he began his morning remarks.

On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "I Have a Dream" speech, the governor went to that oratorical touchstone to refer back to something even earlier, which King had also invoked in his 1963 speech: the words "All men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence.

"We now have an opportunity as a nation and as a human race to make that real," Corzine told the crowd. "We will be as hard as Joe Biden’s mother told him to be, but we shouldn’t lose track of the fact that there is a vision for a better world."

It was a quintessential Corzine statement, delivered in the most self-effacing Midwestern tones. Every time he slid a Jersey edge into his rhetoric, as when he roared moments later that Democrats are in the hardest fight of their lives and have one hell of a chance, he still carried the thought to a idealistic conclusion.

Below is a list of notable Californians scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday. All times are local to Denver (MDT).

A handful of Californians are scheduled to speak today during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

House Speaker and Permanent Chair of the 2008 Democratic National Convention Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento), one of the convention parliamentarians, will both address the convention on Monday.

Dean Andal, the Republican candidate in the 11th Congressional District, and Assemblywoman Nicole Para (D-Hanford) both suffered considerable setbacks this week. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), however, banked big and earned a spot on the winner list. See who else made this week's Winners & Losers. | CLICK HERE

At least three members of California's Democratic congressional delegation are expected to speak on the second night of the Democratic convention in Denver.

California's Congressional "Sister Act" may soon have the last laugh.

After years of enduring both patronizing comments and propositions, Loretta and Linda Sanchez announced this week that they have written a joint memoir, "Dream in Color: How the Sanchez sisters are making history in Congress." The book is due to be published early next month.

Three members of the House Judiciary Committee have recently written a letter to U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking him to begin a probe of alleged leaks from law enforcement officials to the news media on the federal corruption probe of state Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata.

In a July 31 letter to Mukasey, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mi.) and California House members Linda Sanchez (D-Cerritos) and Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) complained about alleged leaks from the Perata investigation appearing recently in newspapers around California and in particular, the San Francisco Chronicle.

Their letter to Mukasey sums up this way: