{"id":10773,"date":"2010-01-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-06T02:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T02:54:38","slug":"january-5-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/06\/january-5-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"January 5 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;RIP Bobby Salcedo. The El Monte School Board Member was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-el-monte5-2010jan05,0,7990747.story\">murdered while visiting his wife&#8217;s family in the Mexican state of Durango<\/a>. The family is asking for donations to the Bobby Salcedo foundation for scholarships to needy families in lieu of flowers. Here&#8217;s the details on that: Rio Hondo College Foundation, Attn: Bobby Salcedo Foundation, P.O. Box 4218, El Monte, California 91734<\/p>\n<p>* The Race to the Top legislation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/01\/05\/MNCB1BDGC3.DTL\">is rapidly making its way through the Legislature<\/a>. In the interim, the administration is asking districts to sign a memorandum of understanding binding them to meeting Race to the top standards.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/gov-invites-entire-legislature-to-lunch-following-state-of-the-state-speech.html\">Arnold, a rubber chicken, and some kumbaya<\/a>. How couldn&#8217;t this make everything all better.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Facebook privacy guru Chris Kelly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/01\/ag-hopeful-chri.html\">dropped $2 million into his AG Campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Frank Schubert, the guy who masterminded the Prop 8 Campaign, is supporting his sister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/site\/?q=node\/7292\">for superior court judge<\/a>. Not all that interesting until you find out that his sister in a registered domestic partnership with her female partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;RIP Bobby Salcedo. The El Monte School Board Member was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-el-monte5-2010jan05,0,7990747.story\">murdered while visiting his wife&#8217;s family in the Mexican state of Durango<\/a>. The family is asking for donations to the Bobby Salcedo foundation for scholarships to needy families in lieu of flowers. Here&#8217;s the details on that: Rio Hondo College Foundation, Attn: Bobby Salcedo Foundation, P.O. Box 4218, El Monte, California 91734<\/p>\n<p>* The Race to the Top legislation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/01\/05\/MNCB1BDGC3.DTL\">is rapidly making its way through the Legislature<\/a>. In the interim, the administration is asking districts to sign a memorandum of understanding binding them to meeting Race to the top standards.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/gov-invites-entire-legislature-to-lunch-following-state-of-the-state-speech.html\">Arnold, a rubber chicken, and some kumbaya<\/a>. How couldn&#8217;t this make everything all better.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Facebook privacy guru Chris Kelly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/01\/ag-hopeful-chri.html\">dropped $2 million into his AG Campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Frank Schubert, the guy who masterminded the Prop 8 Campaign, is supporting his sister <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/site\/?q=node\/7292\">for superior court judge<\/a>. Not all that interesting until you find out that his sister in a registered domestic partnership with her female partner.<\/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-10773","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-2NL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773","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=10773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}