{"id":10578,"date":"2009-11-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-24T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T20:12:48","slug":"november-24-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/25\/november-24-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"November 24 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/11\/seiu-could-sever-ties-with-california-democratic-party.html\">battle between SEIU and NUHW comes to the CDP<\/a>. John Burton doesn&#8217;t normally take too well to threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalBuzz has it on good authority that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/11\/sources-mike-murphy-to-join-emeg-gravy-train\/\">Mike Murphy will be joining the Meg Whitman &#8220;gravy train<\/a>&#8220;. Murphy has done work for Arnold, McCain, and many other conservatives that try to play both sides of the ideological field without actually having to do anything that pisses off the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/news\/ci_13852378?source=rss\">Rep. George Miller is undecided<\/a> on the water bonds for now. If he does endorse the measure, he would certainly be the biggest Delta area elected leader to support the bonds.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arnold and our two senators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=52247\">sent a letter asking President Obama for more High-speed rail funding<\/a> for the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tesla is moving closer to building its first big factory to build electric cars. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/news\/ci_13852027?source=rss\">The leading contender is Downey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/11\/seiu-could-sever-ties-with-california-democratic-party.html\">battle between SEIU and NUHW comes to the CDP<\/a>. John Burton doesn&#8217;t normally take too well to threats.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalBuzz has it on good authority that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/11\/sources-mike-murphy-to-join-emeg-gravy-train\/\">Mike Murphy will be joining the Meg Whitman &#8220;gravy train<\/a>&#8220;. Murphy has done work for Arnold, McCain, and many other conservatives that try to play both sides of the ideological field without actually having to do anything that pisses off the base.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/news\/ci_13852378?source=rss\">Rep. George Miller is undecided<\/a> on the water bonds for now. If he does endorse the measure, he would certainly be the biggest Delta area elected leader to support the bonds.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arnold and our two senators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=52247\">sent a letter asking President Obama for more High-speed rail funding<\/a> for the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tesla is moving closer to building its first big factory to build electric cars. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/news\/ci_13852027?source=rss\">The leading contender is Downey<\/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-10578","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-2KC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","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=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}