{"id":10789,"date":"2010-01-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-28T03:24:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T03:24:16","slug":"january-27-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/28\/january-27-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"January 27 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;More talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=56133\">DiFi getting in the Governor&#8217;s race<\/a>. Apparently, she&#8217;s quite interested in playing around with the media until the filing deadline hits in six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Michaela Alioio-Pier is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/01\/27\/alioto-pier-quits-insurance-commissioner-race\/\">dropping out of the Insurance Commissioner race<\/a>. She has been going through some health issues. We all wish her a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A Santa Clarita city councilman <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/supporters-turn-out-for-santa-clarita-councilman-bob-kellar-proud-racist-remark.html\">who calls himself a &#8220;proud racist&#8221; got some love from other proud racists<\/a>. Given our country&#8217;s legacy of blood against those who are different, this is just disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A bill limiting gifts to legislators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2492308.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">won&#8217;t be making it to the Assembly floor<\/a>, at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;More talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=56133\">DiFi getting in the Governor&#8217;s race<\/a>. Apparently, she&#8217;s quite interested in playing around with the media until the filing deadline hits in six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Michaela Alioio-Pier is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/01\/27\/alioto-pier-quits-insurance-commissioner-race\/\">dropping out of the Insurance Commissioner race<\/a>. She has been going through some health issues. We all wish her a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A Santa Clarita city councilman <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/supporters-turn-out-for-santa-clarita-councilman-bob-kellar-proud-racist-remark.html\">who calls himself a &#8220;proud racist&#8221; got some love from other proud racists<\/a>. Given our country&#8217;s legacy of blood against those who are different, this is just disgusting.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A bill limiting gifts to legislators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2492308.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">won&#8217;t be making it to the Assembly floor<\/a>, at least for now.<\/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-10789","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-2O1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789","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=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}