{"id":10797,"date":"2010-02-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-09T00:11:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T00:11:25","slug":"february-8-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/09\/february-8-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"February 8 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Patty Berg is officially out of the Insurance Commissioner Race. She hadn&#8217;t been really campaigning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cal-access.sos.ca.gov\/Campaign\/Committees\/Detail.aspx?id=1292557&#038;session=2009\">her campaign account shows less than $3,000<\/a>. Her listed consultants are now informing reporters that she is officially out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>* CalBuzz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/02\/memo-to-poiz-go-nascar-to-beat-emegs-money\/\">suggests Steve Poizner go blue-collar<\/a> populist against MoneyBags Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CaliforniaWatch tells us that <a href=\"http:\/\/leubitz.tk\/4\">Meg Whitman dumped a bunch of money on radio during Raiders games<\/a>. Bet that was productive.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Folks in Tom McClintock&#8217;s distract are saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2520372.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">his anti-earmark stance is hurting the district&#8217;s bottom line<\/a>. Hey, maybe John Doolittle will come back for them&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Patty Berg is officially out of the Insurance Commissioner Race. She hadn&#8217;t been really campaigning, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cal-access.sos.ca.gov\/Campaign\/Committees\/Detail.aspx?id=1292557&#038;session=2009\">her campaign account shows less than $3,000<\/a>. Her listed consultants are now informing reporters that she is officially out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>* CalBuzz <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/02\/memo-to-poiz-go-nascar-to-beat-emegs-money\/\">suggests Steve Poizner go blue-collar<\/a> populist against MoneyBags Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CaliforniaWatch tells us that <a href=\"http:\/\/leubitz.tk\/4\">Meg Whitman dumped a bunch of money on radio during Raiders games<\/a>. Bet that was productive.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Folks in Tom McClintock&#8217;s distract are saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2520372.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">his anti-earmark stance is hurting the district&#8217;s bottom line<\/a>. Hey, maybe John Doolittle will come back for them&#8230;<\/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-10797","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-2O9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797","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=10797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}