{"id":10794,"date":"2010-02-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-04T02:29:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T02:29:57","slug":"february-3-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/04\/february-3-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"February 3 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A judge ruled today that the State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2511167.html\">could eliminate two paid holidays for state workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Andy Pugno is running for AD-05, yes, Andy Pugno of Prop 8. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2511167.html\">leading the money race for all non-incumbents<\/a>. He raised nearly $400,000, and kicked in another $100K personal loan. The Democratic candidate is <a href=\"https:\/\/panforassembly.com\/\">Richard Pan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;In the OC, Democratic Assembly candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberaloc.com\/2010\/01\/31\/hundreds-turn-out-for-phu-nguyens-assembly-campaign-fundraiser\/\">Phu Ngyuyen looks like he could be competitive in AD-68<\/a>, where Van Tran is termed out. (And running a half-hearted campaign against Loretta Sanchez.)<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Lots of reaction in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14320181?source=rss\">Whitman vs. Poizner deathmatch<\/a>. Yumm, popcorn!<\/p>\n<p>* Is Gavin Newsom thinking of running for Lt. Governor? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/03\/BAGK1BRFEN.DTL&#038;feed=rss.matierandross\">Matier and Ross have a poll today<\/a> showing Gavin up big over Janice Hahn and Dean Florez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A judge ruled today that the State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2511167.html\">could eliminate two paid holidays for state workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Andy Pugno is running for AD-05, yes, Andy Pugno of Prop 8. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2511167.html\">leading the money race for all non-incumbents<\/a>. He raised nearly $400,000, and kicked in another $100K personal loan. The Democratic candidate is <a href=\"https:\/\/panforassembly.com\/\">Richard Pan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;In the OC, Democratic Assembly candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberaloc.com\/2010\/01\/31\/hundreds-turn-out-for-phu-nguyens-assembly-campaign-fundraiser\/\">Phu Ngyuyen looks like he could be competitive in AD-68<\/a>, where Van Tran is termed out. (And running a half-hearted campaign against Loretta Sanchez.)<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Lots of reaction in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_14320181?source=rss\">Whitman vs. Poizner deathmatch<\/a>. Yumm, popcorn!<\/p>\n<p>* Is Gavin Newsom thinking of running for Lt. Governor? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/02\/03\/BAGK1BRFEN.DTL&#038;feed=rss.matierandross\">Matier and Ross have a poll today<\/a> showing Gavin up big over Janice Hahn and Dean Florez.<\/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-10794","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-2O6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","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=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}