{"id":10374,"date":"2009-10-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-29T23:17:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T23:17:51","slug":"october-29-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/30\/october-29-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"October 29 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"350\" height=\"226\" align=right><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/322363015124\" \/><\/object>To the links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/news\/ci_13665226?source=rss\">Lots<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ydgw3dwvc41ngd\">lots<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2009\/10\/water_vote_math_is_not_easy.html\">lots<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/29\/new-canal-pushed-various-interests\/?uniontrib\">stories about the stalling<\/a> of water legislation. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I (Brian) am quite proud to be doing some work for SF District Attorney Kamala Harris. She recently <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33509559\/ns\/today-today_books\/\/\">wrote a book about her approach to law enforcement, Smart on Crime<\/a>. And today, she chatted with Matt Lauer about it. It&#8217;s actually a pretty interesting read, not that tough to get through. &nbsp;Anyway, check the video of her appearance to the right &#8211;><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Awww&#8230;poor birthers, lose another case <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/10\/birthers-lawsuit-challenging-obamas-election-dismissed.html\">in federal court<\/a>. Apparently they think this is a fun past time, because it isn&#8217;t getting them anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ydgx3rmadmxu5x\">Capitol Weekly finds some fun facts in the Registration #s<\/a>. Even the most Republican seat is about ten points less partisan than the tenth most Democratic seat. There is not a single seat in the Assembly with 50% Republican registration. Interesting, the Republican brand stinks, huh?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/29\/kehoe-seeks-probe-finances\/?p\">Sen. Kehoe (D-SD) may have had a bunch of money<\/a> stolen from her campaign account in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Despite being strapped for cash, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberaloc.com\/2009\/10\/29\/oc-water-district-chief-gets-a-10-raise\/\">OC Water District handed out a raise to its head honcho<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"350\" height=\"226\" align=right><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/322363015124\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/322363015124\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"226\"><\/embed><\/object>To the links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/news\/ci_13665226?source=rss\">Lots<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ydgw3dwvc41ngd\">lots<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2009\/10\/water_vote_math_is_not_easy.html\">lots<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/29\/new-canal-pushed-various-interests\/?uniontrib\">stories about the stalling<\/a> of water legislation. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I (Brian) am quite proud to be doing some work for SF District Attorney Kamala Harris. She recently <a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33509559\/ns\/today-today_books\/\/\">wrote a book about her approach to law enforcement, Smart on Crime<\/a>. And today, she chatted with Matt Lauer about it. It&#8217;s actually a pretty interesting read, not that tough to get through. &nbsp;Anyway, check the video of her appearance to the right &#8211;><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Awww&#8230;poor birthers, lose another case <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/10\/birthers-lawsuit-challenging-obamas-election-dismissed.html\">in federal court<\/a>. Apparently they think this is a fun past time, because it isn&#8217;t getting them anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ydgx3rmadmxu5x\">Capitol Weekly finds some fun facts in the Registration #s<\/a>. Even the most Republican seat is about ten points less partisan than the tenth most Democratic seat. There is not a single seat in the Assembly with 50% Republican registration. Interesting, the Republican brand stinks, huh?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/oct\/29\/kehoe-seeks-probe-finances\/?p\">Sen. Kehoe (D-SD) may have had a bunch of money<\/a> stolen from her campaign account in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Despite being strapped for cash, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberaloc.com\/2009\/10\/29\/oc-water-district-chief-gets-a-10-raise\/\">OC Water District handed out a raise to its head honcho<\/a>.<\/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-10374","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-2Hk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","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=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}