Thank you to all of our readers. Whether you agree or disagree with us, it is an honor to present our view of the California political world every day.<\/p>\n
Now, for some links.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Capitol Weekly has a profile of Chris Norby<\/a>, the leading vote getter in the special election to replace Mike Duvall. He’s a right-wing ideologue. A thoughtful ideologue, but an ideologue just the same.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hey, look at that. It’s easy to start the initiative process, but expensive to carry it through<\/a>. And shockingly, drug testing for legislators didn’t get all the necessary signatures.<\/p>\n \u2022 Garry South is a fan of new Meg Whitman hire Mike Murphy’s work<\/a>, saying that he “brings a centrist perspective that befits the political climate in California pretty well.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Real estate market news: Home starts are up in the Sacramento area<\/a>, and home prices increased in San Diego, but the rate decreased<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thank you to all of our readers. Whether you agree or disagree with us, it is an honor to present our view of the California political world every day.<\/p>\n Now, for some links.<\/p>\n \u2022 Capitol Weekly has a profile of Chris Norby<\/a>, the leading vote getter in the special election to replace Mike Duvall. He’s a right-wing ideologue. A thoughtful ideologue, but an ideologue just the same.<\/p>\n \u2022 Hey, look at that. It’s easy to start the initiative process, but expensive to carry it through<\/a>. And shockingly, drug testing for legislators didn’t get all the necessary signatures.<\/p>\n \u2022 Garry South is a fan of new Meg Whitman hire Mike Murphy’s work<\/a>, saying that he “brings a centrist perspective that befits the political climate in California pretty well.”<\/p>\n \u2022 Real estate market news: Home starts are up in the Sacramento area<\/a>, and home prices increased in San Diego, but the rate decreased<\/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-10588","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-2KM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588","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=10588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}