{"id":10262,"date":"2009-10-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-13T00:52:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T00:52:18","slug":"october-12-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/13\/october-12-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 12 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The San Francisco Young Democrats are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=160333619424\">holding a panel on the constitutional convention<\/a> featuring none other than our own Robert Cruickshank. He&#8217;ll be joined my moderate Asm. Fiona Ma and representatives from the Bay Area Council, the New America Foundation, and California <strike>Backward<\/strike> Forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 George Skelton asks an interesting question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap12-2009oct12,0,4543621.column\">What if Tom Campbell had money<\/a>? &nbsp;It&#8217;s a really intersting question, but he would be a pretty dangerous candidate. His policies might be slightly to the left of Schwarzenegger, and trading the showmanship for some wonkiness. &nbsp;However, unless he does get some money, he&#8217;s going to find it tough to win the primary. &nbsp;If he gets through the primary, I (Brian) think he&#8217;s the strongest GOP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheehy2010.com\/\">Jeff Sheehy<\/a> officially launched his bid for the seat of termed out Roger Niello. The seat (AD-5) went for Obama by 5 points in the 2008 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalBuzz calls President Clinton&#8217;s endorsement of Gavin Newsom a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/10\/gavin-gets-wussy-endorsement-pipes-tony-robbins\/\">wussy endorsement<\/a>.&#8221; Comparing the Newsom endorsement to some others he has made recently, including that of &nbsp;John Garamendi for Congress, and you see a somewhat tepid tone from the Big Dog.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 UC is looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-extra-fees12-2009oct12,0,551900.story?track=rss\">charging more for some undergraduate majors than others<\/a>, based upon expected earnings and costs of faculty. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The California Faculty Association is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2246976.html\">conducting &#8220;teach-ins&#8221; across the CSU campuses<\/a> to &nbsp;advocate for the oil extraction for higher education bill as well as point out how the budget cuts have hurt the state. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The San Francisco Young Democrats are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=160333619424\">holding a panel on the constitutional convention<\/a> featuring none other than our own Robert Cruickshank. He&#8217;ll be joined my moderate Asm. Fiona Ma and representatives from the Bay Area Council, the New America Foundation, and California <strike>Backward<\/strike> Forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 George Skelton asks an interesting question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap12-2009oct12,0,4543621.column\">What if Tom Campbell had money<\/a>? &nbsp;It&#8217;s a really intersting question, but he would be a pretty dangerous candidate. His policies might be slightly to the left of Schwarzenegger, and trading the showmanship for some wonkiness. &nbsp;However, unless he does get some money, he&#8217;s going to find it tough to win the primary. &nbsp;If he gets through the primary, I (Brian) think he&#8217;s the strongest GOP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheehy2010.com\/\">Jeff Sheehy<\/a> officially launched his bid for the seat of termed out Roger Niello. The seat (AD-5) went for Obama by 5 points in the 2008 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalBuzz calls President Clinton&#8217;s endorsement of Gavin Newsom a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/10\/gavin-gets-wussy-endorsement-pipes-tony-robbins\/\">wussy endorsement<\/a>.&#8221; Comparing the Newsom endorsement to some others he has made recently, including that of &nbsp;John Garamendi for Congress, and you see a somewhat tepid tone from the Big Dog.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 UC is looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-extra-fees12-2009oct12,0,551900.story?track=rss\">charging more for some undergraduate majors than others<\/a>, based upon expected earnings and costs of faculty. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The California Faculty Association is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2246976.html\">conducting &#8220;teach-ins&#8221; across the CSU campuses<\/a> to &nbsp;advocate for the oil extraction for higher education bill as well as point out how the budget cuts have hurt the state. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}