{"id":10519,"date":"2009-11-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-18T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T21:26:09","slug":"november-18-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/19\/november-18-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"November 18 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29650.html\">Rep. Xavier Beccera got into a bit of trouble<\/a> with Speaker Pelosi about comments on giving up on the robust public option.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hey, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/18\/us\/18hollywood.html?_r=1&#038;ref=us\">New York times took some interest<\/a> in the California&#8217;s governors race to &#8230; notice that Hollywood supports the Democrat. A big revelation for its readers, I&#8217;m sure. Nary a look at the polcies of any of the candidates in the story, but J.J. Abrams gave some money to Jerry Brown, so headlines must ensue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ron Dellums tenure as Oakland mayor has been tumultuous, to put it mildly. He&#8217;s now dealing with a scandal involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_13811318?source=rss\">failing to report a trip to South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Joe Mathews argues the biggest beneficiary of a contested Democratic primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/joe-mathews\/5854-two-reasons-whitman-needs-another-democrat\">would be Meg Whitman<\/a>. This analysis doesn&#8217;t include Brown&#8217;s issues with generating enthusiasm among the Democratic base, something a contested primary could resolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29650.html\">Rep. Xavier Beccera got into a bit of trouble<\/a> with Speaker Pelosi about comments on giving up on the robust public option.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hey, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/18\/us\/18hollywood.html?_r=1&#038;ref=us\">New York times took some interest<\/a> in the California&#8217;s governors race to &#8230; notice that Hollywood supports the Democrat. A big revelation for its readers, I&#8217;m sure. Nary a look at the polcies of any of the candidates in the story, but J.J. Abrams gave some money to Jerry Brown, so headlines must ensue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ron Dellums tenure as Oakland mayor has been tumultuous, to put it mildly. He&#8217;s now dealing with a scandal involving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_13811318?source=rss\">failing to report a trip to South Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Joe Mathews argues the biggest beneficiary of a contested Democratic primary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/joe-mathews\/5854-two-reasons-whitman-needs-another-democrat\">would be Meg Whitman<\/a>. This analysis doesn&#8217;t include Brown&#8217;s issues with generating enthusiasm among the Democratic base, something a contested primary could resolve.<\/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-10519","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-2JF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519","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=10519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}