{"id":10679,"date":"2009-12-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-18T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:07:19","slug":"december-18-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/19\/december-18-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 18 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links for your weekend:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The federal court case regarding Prop 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/17\/MNKM1B623E.DTL\">might end up being broadcast on TV<\/a>. It&#8217;s part of an experimental program, so it&#8217;s not final yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/joel-fox\/6098-who-wants-be-redistricting-commission-you-may-be-surprised-or-not\">Joel Fox gives his take<\/a> on the latest stats on who is applying for the redistricting commission. You can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/application.wedrawthelines.ca.gov\/statistics\">full stats here<\/a>, but we need to see a lot more diversity on this panel. A lot more, or we&#8217;re going to end up with a totally unrepresentative body.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An LA Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-perez18-2009dec18,0,5471564.story\">profile of Speaker-elect John Perez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Under a recent Supreme Court ruling, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/17\/BA991B5F74.DTL\">we should be seeing more judges recusing themselves<\/a> based on campaign contributions and financial interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links for your weekend:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The federal court case regarding Prop 8 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/17\/MNKM1B623E.DTL\">might end up being broadcast on TV<\/a>. It&#8217;s part of an experimental program, so it&#8217;s not final yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhoundsdaily.com\/blog\/joel-fox\/6098-who-wants-be-redistricting-commission-you-may-be-surprised-or-not\">Joel Fox gives his take<\/a> on the latest stats on who is applying for the redistricting commission. You can view the <a href=\"https:\/\/application.wedrawthelines.ca.gov\/statistics\">full stats here<\/a>, but we need to see a lot more diversity on this panel. A lot more, or we&#8217;re going to end up with a totally unrepresentative body.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An LA Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-perez18-2009dec18,0,5471564.story\">profile of Speaker-elect John Perez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Under a recent Supreme Court ruling, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/12\/17\/BA991B5F74.DTL\">we should be seeing more judges recusing themselves<\/a> based on campaign contributions and financial interests.<\/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-10679","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-2Mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","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=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}