{"id":10796,"date":"2010-02-06T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-05T20:19:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:19:11","slug":"february-5-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/06\/february-5-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"February 5 Open Thread & Statewide Candidate Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of the statewide Candidates will be coming to the California Young Democrats Bay Area candidate forum on Saturday at 1PM in SF. Here’s the Facebook event<\/a>. If you can’t make it in person, you can watch it online on VidSF<\/a> or right here at Calitics.  Pretty sweet.  Anyway, I (Brian) will be there, so it’s sure to be a blast. <\/p>\n

Here are some links for your weekend:<\/p>\n

*  Jerry Brown’s office was cleared in wrongdoing<\/a> in the secret audio tapes made of calls with reporters.<\/p>\n

*  Tom Berryhill’s right-wing opponent, Heidi Fuller, in the senate primary to replace Dave Cogdill, is suing to block Berryhill from the ballot<\/a>. He’s just now moving to the district and Fuller says that doesn’t meet a one-year residency requirement.  Berryhill says that the one year rule is unconstitutional under a Supreme Court case striking down a similar law in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

*  The Republican primary for the Senate race could be getting really ugly. It seems the Demon Sheep has triggered something between Campbell and Fiorina<\/a>. Meanwhile, the radio right-wingers John and Ken surprised Carly Fiorina with a call from Chuck DeVore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*  Speaking of Campbell, he’s going around proposing a “revenue neutral” carbon tax<\/a> instead of cap and trade.  His proposal is to eliminate or restructure the federal payroll tax (FICA) and replace the revenue with the carbon tax. I (Brian) won’t argue with him that the carbon tax is more efficient than cap and trade, that much is abundantly clear. However, replacing FICA is a bit more troublesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of the statewide Candidates will be coming to the California Young Democrats Bay Area candidate forum on Saturday at 1PM in SF. Here’s the Facebook event<\/a>. If you can’t make it in person, you can watch it online on VidSF<\/a> or right here at Calitics.  Pretty sweet.  Anyway, I (Brian) will be there, so it’s sure to be a blast. <\/p>\n

Here are some links for your weekend:<\/p>\n

*  Jerry Brown’s office was cleared in wrongdoing<\/a> in the secret audio tapes made of calls with reporters.<\/p>\n

*  Tom Berryhill’s right-wing opponent, Heidi Fuller, in the senate primary to replace Dave Cogdill, is suing to block Berryhill from the ballot<\/a>. He’s just now moving to the district and Fuller says that doesn’t meet a one-year residency requirement.  Berryhill says that the one year rule is unconstitutional under a Supreme Court case striking down a similar law in Tennessee.<\/p>\n

*  The Republican primary for the Senate race could be getting really ugly. It seems the Demon Sheep has triggered something between Campbell and Fiorina<\/a>. Meanwhile, the radio right-wingers John and Ken surprised Carly Fiorina with a call from Chuck DeVore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*  Speaking of Campbell, he’s going around proposing a “revenue neutral” carbon tax<\/a> instead of cap and trade.  His proposal is to eliminate or restructure the federal payroll tax (FICA) and replace the revenue with the carbon tax. I (Brian) won’t argue with him that the carbon tax is more efficient than cap and trade, that much is abundantly clear. However, replacing FICA is a bit more troublesome.<\/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-10796","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-2O8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","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=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}