{"id":10611,"date":"2009-12-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-08T14:16:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:16:38","slug":"december-8-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/09\/december-8-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 8 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What else is going on?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Secretary of State&#8217;s office has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_13946295?source=rss\">approved Alameda County&#8217;s ranked choice voting system<\/a>, so it will go into effect for next year&#8217;s elections. That will likely include the evenutal election of Ron Dellums&#8217; successor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It&#8217;s telcos v consumer groups on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ygvbey2hykdmgk\">confirmation to the PUC of Rachelle Chong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Several <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=10650\">major nurses unions have joined forces<\/a> to increase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/08\/MNAC1AQ0UK.DTL\">their national influence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Who is going to answer the <a href=\"http:\/\/taxdollars.freedomblogging.com\/2009\/12\/07\/help-wanted-lawyer-for-the-oc-fair\/45965\/\">OC Fair Board&#8217;s legal questions<\/a> now that they&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=10642\">dropped by the AG&#8217;s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What else is going on?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Secretary of State&#8217;s office has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_13946295?source=rss\">approved Alameda County&#8217;s ranked choice voting system<\/a>, so it will go into effect for next year&#8217;s elections. That will likely include the evenutal election of Ron Dellums&#8217; successor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It&#8217;s telcos v consumer groups on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ygvbey2hykdmgk\">confirmation to the PUC of Rachelle Chong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Several <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=10650\">major nurses unions have joined forces<\/a> to increase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/08\/MNAC1AQ0UK.DTL\">their national influence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Who is going to answer the <a href=\"http:\/\/taxdollars.freedomblogging.com\/2009\/12\/07\/help-wanted-lawyer-for-the-oc-fair\/45965\/\">OC Fair Board&#8217;s legal questions<\/a> now that they&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=10642\">dropped by the AG&#8217;s office<\/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-10611","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-2L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","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=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}