{"id":10818,"date":"2010-03-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-10T06:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T06:21:18","slug":"march-9-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/10\/march-9-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 9 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;California Watch looks at Roy Ashburn&#8217;s record <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/roy-ashburn-more-extreme-gay-rights-bakersfield\">and considers whether he&#8217;s been more anti-gay than his district<\/a>. Meanwhile Bigot Randy Thomasson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/03\/conservative-ac.html\">is calling for him to resign<\/a>. Apparently Thomasson doesn&#8217;t believe anybody is &#8220;actually gay&#8221; and it&#8217;s all simply a matter of infidelity. Except, Ashburn has been divorced for several years, and won re-election after his divorce.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Randy Shaw thinks that there needs to be a plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/site\/?q=node\/7530\">for education activists beyond just protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Asm. Nathan Fletcher (R-San Diego) is pushing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=58760\">for a full review of our sex offender laws<\/a> following the murder of Chelsea King. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s hoping that we see a balanced approach that respects the rule of law while doing what is possible to make the community safe. &nbsp;This time, let&#8217;s try to make sure that we get laws that work, not ones that just sound tough.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the front group that hides where the money opposing marriage equality is coming from, kicked in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/09\/eastman-for-ag-gets-anti-same-sex-marriage\/\">$5000 to John Eastman&#8217;s campaign for AG<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;California Watch looks at Roy Ashburn&#8217;s record <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/roy-ashburn-more-extreme-gay-rights-bakersfield\">and considers whether he&#8217;s been more anti-gay than his district<\/a>. Meanwhile Bigot Randy Thomasson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/03\/conservative-ac.html\">is calling for him to resign<\/a>. Apparently Thomasson doesn&#8217;t believe anybody is &#8220;actually gay&#8221; and it&#8217;s all simply a matter of infidelity. Except, Ashburn has been divorced for several years, and won re-election after his divorce.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Randy Shaw thinks that there needs to be a plan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/site\/?q=node\/7530\">for education activists beyond just protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Asm. Nathan Fletcher (R-San Diego) is pushing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=58760\">for a full review of our sex offender laws<\/a> following the murder of Chelsea King. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s hoping that we see a balanced approach that respects the rule of law while doing what is possible to make the community safe. &nbsp;This time, let&#8217;s try to make sure that we get laws that work, not ones that just sound tough.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the front group that hides where the money opposing marriage equality is coming from, kicked in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/09\/eastman-for-ag-gets-anti-same-sex-marriage\/\">$5000 to John Eastman&#8217;s campaign for AG<\/a>.<\/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-10818","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-2Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818","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=10818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}