Welcome to October, but don’t expect the open thread to do any changin’ just because the calendar rolled over. To the links!<\/p>\n
\u2022 Assembly Member Anna Caballero officially launched<\/a> her campaign for Jeff Denham’s senate seat. Now, if we could only nab another Senate seat…<\/p>\n \u2022 While Carly Fiorina is supposed to be the high-spending candidate it is Chuck DeVore that’s been the one spending money so far<\/a> in the Republican Senate primary. Meanwhile, DeVore accused Fiorina of selling nuclear parts to Iran<\/a>. Ummm…just, wow.<\/p>\n \u2022 The DreamWorks crew (Geffen, Katzenberg and Spielberg) are all endorsing Jerry Brown for Governor and throwing him a fundraiser<\/a>. Joe Garofoli thinks it may have something to do with a feud between Bill Clinton, who endorsed Newsom, and the David Geffen.<\/p>\n \u2022 Meg Whitman seemingly can’t dig herself out<\/a> of this whole not voting for twenty years thing. She essentially accused the Bee of making up the quote where she tells the Bee to “go find” her voting registration information. To whit, the Bee editorial board said, we have the tape. The whole thins is really quite shocking. I mean why would voters want a governor who thought governance was important enough to fill out a ballot for five minutes?<\/p>\n \u2022 Lots of rich Californians<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 John Boehner disses the public option by calling it “unpopular as a garlic milkshake.” That didn’t sit too well with Brian Bowe<\/a>, executive director of the Gilroy Garlic Festival<\/a>:<\/p>\n “I would invite him to our festival and would urge him to try the garlic ice cream,” Bowe, er, sniffed. “It’s the longest line of people at the festival every year. Everyone loves it.”<\/p>\n Bowe squashed Boehner’s doubts about garlic’s attributes as defly as a chef removing the skin from a clove. “That’s off base,” he told me. “Garlic is one of the healthiest herbs out there. It does wonders for the body and that’s proven. Whether it’s in a milk shake or not, you can’t go wrong with garlic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I [Robert] can attest to the utter deliciousness of Gilroy garlic ice cream. And apparently all America can attest to the idiocy that is John Boehner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to October, but don’t expect the open thread to do any changin’ just because the calendar rolled over. To the links!<\/p>\n \u2022 Assembly Member Anna Caballero officially launched<\/a> her campaign for Jeff Denham’s senate seat. Now, if we could only nab another Senate seat…<\/p>\n \u2022 While Carly Fiorina is supposed to be the high-spending candidate it is Chuck DeVore that’s been the one spending money so far<\/a> in the Republican Senate primary. Meanwhile, DeVore accused Fiorina of selling nuclear parts to Iran<\/a>. Ummm…just, wow.<\/p>\n \u2022 The DreamWorks crew (Geffen, Katzenberg and Spielberg) are all endorsing Jerry Brown for Governor and throwing him a fundraiser<\/a>. Joe Garofoli thinks it may have something to do with a feud between Bill Clinton, who endorsed Newsom, and the David Geffen.<\/p>\n \u2022 Meg Whitman seemingly can’t dig herself out<\/a> of this whole not voting for twenty years thing. She essentially accused the Bee of making up the quote where she tells the Bee to “go find” her voting registration information. To whit, the Bee editorial board said, we have the tape. The whole thins is really quite shocking. I mean why would voters want a governor who thought governance was important enough to fill out a ballot for five minutes?<\/p>\n \u2022 Lots of rich Californians<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 John Boehner disses the public option by calling it “unpopular as a garlic milkshake.” That didn’t sit too well with Brian Bowe<\/a>, executive director of the Gilroy Garlic Festival<\/a>:<\/p>\n “I would invite him to our festival and would urge him to try the garlic ice cream,” Bowe, er, sniffed. “It’s the longest line of people at the festival every year. Everyone loves it.”<\/p>\n Bowe squashed Boehner’s doubts about garlic’s attributes as defly as a chef removing the skin from a clove. “That’s off base,” he told me. “Garlic is one of the healthiest herbs out there. It does wonders for the body and that’s proven. Whether it’s in a milk shake or not, you can’t go wrong with garlic.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I [Robert] can attest to the utter deliciousness of Gilroy garlic ice cream. 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