{"id":10815,"date":"2010-03-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-05T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:21:00","slug":"march-4-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/05\/march-4-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 4 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Two officials on the rather obscure <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2010\/03\/sf_officials_fired_for_complic.php\">San Francisco State Building Authority<\/a> after they had objected to the sale of several buildings on the grounds that the people who owned the buildings would have undue influence over the process. &nbsp;Both were Republicans, but, you know, dissent is for suckers.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Also in SF, the Board of Supervisors is looking at handing $200 million of contracts on the Central Subway to a firm that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2010\/03\/ex_muni_brass_linked_to_200_mi.php\">hired the previous MTA executive director Stuart Sunshine<\/a>. Well, there&#8217;s some nice revolving door BS for you.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;LA County Sheriff Lee Baca&#8217;s office <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/la-sheriff-gives-early-release-to-200-inmates-saying-there-was-no-place-to-house-them.html\">released 200 prisoners<\/a> because they simply didn&#8217;t have room for them.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The corruption investigation into the failed Assembly candidacy of Jim Ayres continues. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/politics\/miller\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_investigate04.46e4d78.html\">consultants in the Sacramento area got raided<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Sen. Roy Ashburn <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/03\/ashburn_on_personal_leave_a_da.html\">is out on personal leave<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/11216\/sen-ashburns-glass-closet-door-shatters\">no-good awful last week<\/a> he&#8217;s had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Two officials on the rather obscure <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2010\/03\/sf_officials_fired_for_complic.php\">San Francisco State Building Authority<\/a> after they had objected to the sale of several buildings on the grounds that the people who owned the buildings would have undue influence over the process. &nbsp;Both were Republicans, but, you know, dissent is for suckers.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Also in SF, the Board of Supervisors is looking at handing $200 million of contracts on the Central Subway to a firm that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2010\/03\/ex_muni_brass_linked_to_200_mi.php\">hired the previous MTA executive director Stuart Sunshine<\/a>. Well, there&#8217;s some nice revolving door BS for you.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;LA County Sheriff Lee Baca&#8217;s office <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/03\/la-sheriff-gives-early-release-to-200-inmates-saying-there-was-no-place-to-house-them.html\">released 200 prisoners<\/a> because they simply didn&#8217;t have room for them.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The corruption investigation into the failed Assembly candidacy of Jim Ayres continues. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/politics\/miller\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_investigate04.46e4d78.html\">consultants in the Sacramento area got raided<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Sen. Roy Ashburn <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/03\/ashburn_on_personal_leave_a_da.html\">is out on personal leave<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/11216\/sen-ashburns-glass-closet-door-shatters\">no-good awful last week<\/a> he&#8217;s had.<\/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-10815","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-2Or","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815","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=10815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}