Bob Filner

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is announcing the endorsements of five new California superdelegates: U.S. Reps. Bob Filner, Sam Farr, and Jerry McNerney and Democratic National Committee members Rachel Binah and Christine Pelosi.

Earlier in the day, Obama’s campaign announced the endorsements of Democratic National Committee members John Perez and Kamil Hasan and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters.

15 undeclared California superdelegates remain.

U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, an undeclared superdelegate, appears likely to endorse in the Democratic presidential race Tuesday evening.

“He will be releasing a statement on the presidential race later tonight,” says a spokeswoman.

Filner is an eight term Democrat from San Diego.

Two other state superdelegates, meanwhile, indicated they were not prepared to endorse today.

“She has said he will be waiting for all the primaries to be over,” said a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Susan Davis.

Bob Mulholland, a campaign adviser to the California Democratic Party, was more direct when asked if he would making a decision Tuesday.

“No,” he said.

Politically targeted security contractor Blackwater is staying in San Diego despite recently withdrawing controversial plans to build an 824-acre training camp near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Blackwater has become a Democratic Party symbol of the Bush administration’s Iraq quagmire. San Diego peace activists mobilized with local residents in rural Potrero last year to fight Blackwater’s proposed training camp there, culminating in five members of Potrero’s community planning board being recalled. Congressional critics have included San Diego’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Bob Filner of Chula Vista.

Blackwater now has a city permit for a border-adjacent, Navy-focused, 61,600-square-foot indoor training facility in a warehouse district in San Diego’s Otay Mesa neighborhood. City officials gave Blackwater the permit in mid-March, the Union-Tribune reported this week.

Politically targeted security contractor Blackwater is staying in San Diego despite recently withdrawing controversial plans to build an 824-acre training camp near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Blackwater has become a Democratic Party symbol of the Bush administration’s Iraq quagmire. San Diego peace activists mobilized with local residents in rural Potrero last year to fight Blackwater’s proposed training camp there, culminating in five members of Potrero’s community planning board being recalled. Congressional critics have included San Diego’s Democratic U.S. Rep. Bob Filner of Chula Vista.

Blackwater now has a city permit for a border-adjacent, Navy-focused, 61,600-square-foot indoor training facility in a warehouse district in San Diego’s Otay Mesa neighborhood. City officials gave Blackwater the permit in mid-March, the Union-Tribune reported this week.