{"id":10817,"date":"2010-03-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-09T04:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:38:02","slug":"march-8-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/09\/march-8-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 8 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=58704&#038;tsp=1\">Teabaggers plan to visit the California Republican Party convention this weekend<\/a>, proving once again that the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; movement is nothing more than the same right-wing movement we&#8217;ve experienced for 50 years putting on new clothing.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CSEA filed suit to change the wording of Prop 14, the top-two primary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-open-primary8-2010mar08,0,1913305.story\">They&#8217;ve apparently succeeded<\/a>, but proponents are resisting the settlement out of fear that taking out the bogus &#8220;give voters more choice&#8221; statements might make it harder to get voters to approve it.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/03\/adapt-or-die-how-jerry-sees-political-evolution\/\">Calbuzz sits down with Jerry Brown<\/a> to talk about his &#8220;political evolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A recently discovered fault near PG&#038;E&#8217;s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2010\/03\/07\/1058240\/diablo-license-renewal-may-be.html\">is delaying renewal of the plant&#8217;s license<\/a>. Building nuclear power plants in earthquake country never really was all that bright an idea to begin with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=58704&#038;tsp=1\">Teabaggers plan to visit the California Republican Party convention this weekend<\/a>, proving once again that the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; movement is nothing more than the same right-wing movement we&#8217;ve experienced for 50 years putting on new clothing.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CSEA filed suit to change the wording of Prop 14, the top-two primary. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-open-primary8-2010mar08,0,1913305.story\">They&#8217;ve apparently succeeded<\/a>, but proponents are resisting the settlement out of fear that taking out the bogus &#8220;give voters more choice&#8221; statements might make it harder to get voters to approve it.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/03\/adapt-or-die-how-jerry-sees-political-evolution\/\">Calbuzz sits down with Jerry Brown<\/a> to talk about his &#8220;political evolution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;A recently discovered fault near PG&#038;E&#8217;s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in San Luis Obispo County <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2010\/03\/07\/1058240\/diablo-license-renewal-may-be.html\">is delaying renewal of the plant&#8217;s license<\/a>. Building nuclear power plants in earthquake country never really was all that bright an idea to begin with.<\/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-10817","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-2Ot","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","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=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}