{"id":10279,"date":"2009-10-15T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-15T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T03:00:08","slug":"october-14-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/15\/october-14-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 14 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Well, well, this is interesting to see some whispers making into the press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=49573\">Carla Marinucci asks<\/a> Rep. Jane Harman about whether she&#8217;s looking at the governor&#8217;s race. She gets a non-denial denial. &nbsp;Something to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 First Lady Maria Shriver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_13561619?source=rss\">apologized for once again violating the cell phone law<\/a>. &nbsp;Apology, schmapology, we need the $100 worth of fines!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tom Campbell is usually pretty wonky, and usually gets the facts straight, even if he comes to different conclusions than most progressives. &nbsp;However, today, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/10\/14\/schwarzenegger-same-sex-marriage-bill-called-unconstitutional\/\">he just stank it up<\/a>. &nbsp;He not only gets the name of the state&#8217;s <b>domestic partnership<\/b> program wrong (calling it civil union), but also misunderstanding that out of state marriages are essentially domestic partnerships under SB 54.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124819242712168973.html\">CalPERS had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year<\/a>. It lost 23.4%. Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Garamendi attacked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/13\/garamendi-mailer-quotes-wrong-david-harmer\/\">the wrong David Harmer<\/a> in a mailer. &nbsp;He attributed a quote to Harmer that was in fact a different David Harmer. I don&#8217;t really understand the whole going negative thing, but sheesh, at least get it right. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Well, well, this is interesting to see some whispers making into the press: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=49573\">Carla Marinucci asks<\/a> Rep. Jane Harman about whether she&#8217;s looking at the governor&#8217;s race. She gets a non-denial denial. &nbsp;Something to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 First Lady Maria Shriver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_13561619?source=rss\">apologized for once again violating the cell phone law<\/a>. &nbsp;Apology, schmapology, we need the $100 worth of fines!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tom Campbell is usually pretty wonky, and usually gets the facts straight, even if he comes to different conclusions than most progressives. &nbsp;However, today, <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/10\/14\/schwarzenegger-same-sex-marriage-bill-called-unconstitutional\/\">he just stank it up<\/a>. &nbsp;He not only gets the name of the state&#8217;s <b>domestic partnership<\/b> program wrong (calling it civil union), but also misunderstanding that out of state marriages are essentially domestic partnerships under SB 54.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124819242712168973.html\">CalPERS had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year<\/a>. It lost 23.4%. Ouch!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Garamendi attacked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/13\/garamendi-mailer-quotes-wrong-david-harmer\/\">the wrong David Harmer<\/a> in a mailer. &nbsp;He attributed a quote to Harmer that was in fact a different David Harmer. I don&#8217;t really understand the whole going negative thing, but sheesh, at least get it right. &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-10279","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-2FN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279","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=10279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}