{"id":10678,"date":"2009-12-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-17T18:53:15","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:53:15","slug":"december-17-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/18\/december-17-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 17 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/tony-quinn\/6083-a-switcheroo-tom-campbell\">a possible switch<\/a> from the Governor&#8217;s race to the Senate Race for Tom Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 California PUC Chair Michael Peevey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yhnefxbnhqxnxq\">was confirmed by Senate Rules Cmte.<\/a>. The nomination will go to the floor, where he should be confirmed easily. &nbsp;The nomination of Rachelle Chong still looks to be a longshot now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalPERS <a href=\"http:\/\/calpensions.com\/2009\/12\/17\/calpers-avoids-giving-state-1-billion-rate-shock\/\">lower than expected state fee increase<\/a> will do less damage than expected to the budget, but will put the fund at some risk with a low funded ratio.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Speaking of CalPERS, there was a recent election for a seat on the board, and J.J. Jelincic defeated Cathy Hackett, SEIU Local 1000&#8217;s candidate, by a hair. Jelinic had support from several other major unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/tony-quinn\/6083-a-switcheroo-tom-campbell\">a possible switch<\/a> from the Governor&#8217;s race to the Senate Race for Tom Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 California PUC Chair Michael Peevey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yhnefxbnhqxnxq\">was confirmed by Senate Rules Cmte.<\/a>. The nomination will go to the floor, where he should be confirmed easily. &nbsp;The nomination of Rachelle Chong still looks to be a longshot now.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalPERS <a href=\"http:\/\/calpensions.com\/2009\/12\/17\/calpers-avoids-giving-state-1-billion-rate-shock\/\">lower than expected state fee increase<\/a> will do less damage than expected to the budget, but will put the fund at some risk with a low funded ratio.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Speaking of CalPERS, there was a recent election for a seat on the board, and J.J. Jelincic defeated Cathy Hackett, SEIU Local 1000&#8217;s candidate, by a hair. Jelinic had support from several other major unions.<\/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-10678","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-2Me","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678","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=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}