{"id":10610,"date":"2009-12-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-08T00:49:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:49:07","slug":"december-7-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/08\/december-7-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 7 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links and stuff<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2375220.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">Bee looks at the abstain tactic<\/a> as a way to kill bills. It turns out that you need half of the total number of possible votes, so simply not voting is akin to voting no.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/12\/three-key-questions-about-the-governors-race\/\">CalBuzz looks at three questions<\/a> about the governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Democratic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/12\/07\/hahn-to-raise-ltgov-in-oakland-florez-in-la\/\">LG Candidates are raising cash today<\/a>. Hahn is in Oakland, Florez is in LA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is a great new tool from the Bee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/votingrecord\/\">The voting record<\/a> of all legislators during the session. It&#8217;s about time that somebody came up with this. Good work, SacBee folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links and stuff<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2375220.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">Bee looks at the abstain tactic<\/a> as a way to kill bills. It turns out that you need half of the total number of possible votes, so simply not voting is akin to voting no.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/12\/three-key-questions-about-the-governors-race\/\">CalBuzz looks at three questions<\/a> about the governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Democratic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2009\/12\/07\/hahn-to-raise-ltgov-in-oakland-florez-in-la\/\">LG Candidates are raising cash today<\/a>. Hahn is in Oakland, Florez is in LA.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is a great new tool from the Bee: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/votingrecord\/\">The voting record<\/a> of all legislators during the session. It&#8217;s about time that somebody came up with this. Good work, SacBee folks.<\/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-10610","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-2L8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610","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=10610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}