{"id":10799,"date":"2010-02-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-10T20:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:45:58","slug":"february-10-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/11\/february-10-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"February 10 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;iCarly News! She <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/fiorina-suggests-california-declare-bankruptcy.html\">endorsed bankruptcy for the state<\/a>, apparently unaware that it isn&#8217;t possible under federal bankruptcy law. &nbsp;Oh well, but it sounds very serious. &nbsp;In other news, she&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/09\/bn09fiorina\/\">endorsed the &#8220;paycheck protection&#8221; plan to cut unions out of politics<\/a>. You think she&#8217;s going to support the measure to require corporations get approval from their shareholders when they want to spend on politics?<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Steve Lopez has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/columnists\/la-me-lopez10-2010feb10,0,4242651.column\">good column calling out Mercury Insurance<\/a> for their initiative (Prop 17) to legalize their already sketchy practices.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-money10-2010feb10,0,6917936.story\">Top 10 Political Givers of the last decade<\/a>. &nbsp;Bing and Poizner are the top two.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The San Diego Republican Central Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2525885.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">booted out one of its members<\/a> for helping state GOP chair Ron Nehring trying to cover up his domestic violence problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;iCarly News! She <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/fiorina-suggests-california-declare-bankruptcy.html\">endorsed bankruptcy for the state<\/a>, apparently unaware that it isn&#8217;t possible under federal bankruptcy law. &nbsp;Oh well, but it sounds very serious. &nbsp;In other news, she&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/feb\/09\/bn09fiorina\/\">endorsed the &#8220;paycheck protection&#8221; plan to cut unions out of politics<\/a>. You think she&#8217;s going to support the measure to require corporations get approval from their shareholders when they want to spend on politics?<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Steve Lopez has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/columnists\/la-me-lopez10-2010feb10,0,4242651.column\">good column calling out Mercury Insurance<\/a> for their initiative (Prop 17) to legalize their already sketchy practices.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-money10-2010feb10,0,6917936.story\">Top 10 Political Givers of the last decade<\/a>. &nbsp;Bing and Poizner are the top two.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The San Diego Republican Central Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/2525885.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">booted out one of its members<\/a> for helping state GOP chair Ron Nehring trying to cover up his domestic violence problems.<\/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-10799","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-2Ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","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=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}