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July 27 Open Thread

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News from around the state:

• To say public power is a politically explosive topic in SF is a huge understatement.  Today, PG&E wades into it again with a new committee.

• A small (126 members) band of Pomo Indians from Mendocino Country are trying to build a very large fancy casino in Richmond.  The City of Richmond supports the plan, but there are many who aren’t so enamored with the idea. There are a series of hoops left to jump through, so this is far from a done deal.

• Henry Waxman and the House Energy and Commerce Committee have released a district-by-district rundown of how the House health care bill will impact every single district.  The analysis “includes information on the impact of the legislation on small businesses, seniors in Medicare, health care providers, and the uninsured. It also includes an estimate of the impacts of the surtax that is used to pay for the legislation.” It’s a good resource for folks calling their Representatives.

• Sign of the times: the Osteopathic Medical Board cannot afford to buy toner for their only copier.  Once the real horror stories from this budget get out, this will be the least of our worries.

• Meg Whitman gets another endorsement, Bill Simon. Not sure if this one makes a huge difference, it’s not like Simon is really a huge name any more.

• Some longtime wingnut has served Alyson Huber with recall papers.  It isn’t clear to me exactly what she’s done wrong, but this was a contested district, and appears to just be a naked attempt to avoid a regular timeframe for a contested election in the hopes of stealing a seat in a low-turnout special.  We’ll see if enough people sign on.

• More negotiations between BART and the unions to try to make some progress in getting a labor deal.

• Sad news that Inola Henry, most recently a DNC member from California and the lead chair of the CDP Resolutions Committee, has passed away.  RIP.

5 thoughts on “July 27 Open Thread”

  1. I’m sure I’ll need a spreadsheet to keep track of the mess, but I’d like to find out how my legiscritters voted.  It’s not at leginfo dot ca dot gov, and it’s not on their pages.  Do I just need some patience or is there a resource?

  3. From today’s Salon:

    Finally, [Mad Birther Lady And Dentist Orli] Taitz claims that she was friended by Rep. Mary Bono Mack of California shortly after becoming active on Facebook. “Amazingly, Congresswoman Mary Bono asked to be my friend on Facebook.”

    A spokeswoman for Bono Mack told Salon that the Facebook friendship with Taitz doesn’t indicate support for Taitz, and is just a form of general, broad outreach. However, given three opportunities to agree on behalf of Bono Mack that the president was born in the United States and is qualified to command the armed forces, the spokeswoman refused to comment.

    Since 3 times wasn’t enough of an opportunity for Bono Mack’s spokesperson to say whether Obama is a natural born citizen or not, maybe some of us should ask too?

    In a similar vein — John Campbell was a no-show for today’s Hawaii vote.  Not only a birther, but a birther without conviction.  Chicken.

  4. Amazingly, Charles Reed came out publicly in favor of the CSU.  Maybe the no-confidence vote made a difference.  (Probably not.)

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    Opinion: California values prisoners over students

    By Chancellor Charles B. Reed

    During the budget debate, it became clear to me that something unthinkable has happened in California: Our fiscal meltdown has so distorted our legislative priorities that we are now a state that places a higher priority on prison than on higher education.

    ….

    http://www.fresnostatenews.com…

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