Things are obviously a bit quiet around here, but feel free to say what’s on your mind here. Some news-y links:<\/p>\n
\u2022 John Wildermuth picks Sen. Steinberg as his Californian of the Year<\/a>. While progressives across the state have disagreed with the Sen. President Pro Tem, it is hard to argue that he has anything but the best of intentions. Wildermuth also takes shots at the Fiorina campaign for announcing that Sen. Boxer is…umm…a Democrat<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The NRCC is doing some holiday robocalls, nothing like a little anti-stimulus jibber jabber to wash down the egg nog. The OC Register caught one against Loretta Sanchez<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod digs her moderate tag<\/a>. Apparently, it is super awesome that a Democrat got a 5 out of 15 on the Sierra Club Scorecard.<\/p>\n \u2022 Delecia Holt, who ran in several Congressional elections, was convicted of a number charges<\/a>, including writing bad checks.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Con environmentalist perspective on the Tranquillion Ridge project<\/a>. CalBuzz had the pro perspective yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Things are obviously a bit quiet around here, but feel free to say what’s on your mind here. Some news-y links:<\/p>\n \u2022 John Wildermuth picks Sen. Steinberg as his Californian of the Year<\/a>. While progressives across the state have disagreed with the Sen. President Pro Tem, it is hard to argue that he has anything but the best of intentions. Wildermuth also takes shots at the Fiorina campaign for announcing that Sen. Boxer is…umm…a Democrat<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 The NRCC is doing some holiday robocalls, nothing like a little anti-stimulus jibber jabber to wash down the egg nog. The OC Register caught one against Loretta Sanchez<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod digs her moderate tag<\/a>. Apparently, it is super awesome that a Democrat got a 5 out of 15 on the Sierra Club Scorecard.<\/p>\n \u2022 Delecia Holt, who ran in several Congressional elections, was convicted of a number charges<\/a>, including writing bad checks.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Con environmentalist perspective on the Tranquillion Ridge project<\/a>. CalBuzz had the pro perspective yesterday<\/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-10682","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-2Mi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682","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=10682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}