{"id":10785,"date":"2010-01-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-21T21:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T21:58:41","slug":"january-21-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/22\/january-21-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"January 21 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Former Senators Martha Escutia and Joe Dunn are teaming up with a leader of Sacramento&#8217;s <strike>good ol&#8217; boy<\/strike> old-school consulting class, Richie Ross, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ykmlt7rww7pzxd\">form another lobbying firm<\/a>. Just what we need!<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Fresno Bee&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/01\/so_far_29th_assembly_is_low_ke.html\">takes a look at the Republican race to replace Mike Villines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The California Supreme Court invalidated a law that attempted to limit amounts of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;26 legislators were fined for <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/01\/26-lawmakers-admit-not-disclosing-gifts.html\">not disclosing gifts they received<\/a> while in office. &nbsp;The legislators were of both parties, and included some heavyweights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Former Senators Martha Escutia and Joe Dunn are teaming up with a leader of Sacramento&#8217;s <strike>good ol&#8217; boy<\/strike> old-school consulting class, Richie Ross, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=ykmlt7rww7pzxd\">form another lobbying firm<\/a>. Just what we need!<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Fresno Bee&#8217;s blog <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/01\/so_far_29th_assembly_is_low_ke.html\">takes a look at the Republican race to replace Mike Villines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The California Supreme Court invalidated a law that attempted to limit amounts of medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;26 legislators were fined for <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/01\/26-lawmakers-admit-not-disclosing-gifts.html\">not disclosing gifts they received<\/a> while in office. &nbsp;The legislators were of both parties, and included some heavyweights.<\/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-10785","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-2NX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785","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=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}