{"id":10824,"date":"2010-03-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-18T02:44:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:44:53","slug":"march-17-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/18\/march-17-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 17 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/news\/2010\/03\/17\/oc-fairgrounds-no-sale-03172010\/\">rejected all the bids for the OC Fairgrounds<\/a>. The state had predicted they would get $180 million, but ended up with a max bid of $56 million. &nbsp;Yay for unrealistic budgeting!<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Jerry Brown tells unions to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/jerry-brown-urges-unions-to-attack.html\">attack&#8221; Whitman<\/a>. Whitman calls that <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/whitman-browns-style-of-politics-cynical-.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">cynical<\/a>, apparently thinking that attempting to buy the race is full of puppies and daffodils.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Speaking of cynical, Whitman had, in a previous bid of partisanship grandeur, pledged <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/meg-whitman-reconsiders-republican-only-hiring-policy.html\">to only hire Republicans for the top 300 spots in her Administration<\/a>. She&#8217;s now reconsidering that now that it appears she&#8217;s kicking Poizner&#8217;s butt.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/obama-to-raise-money-for-boxer.html\">is going to do a fundraiser for Sen. Boxer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Environmentalists are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/03\/16\/1861867\/environmentalists-target-pombo.html\">once again taking on Richard Pombo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpr.org\/news\/2010\/03\/17\/oc-fairgrounds-no-sale-03172010\/\">rejected all the bids for the OC Fairgrounds<\/a>. The state had predicted they would get $180 million, but ended up with a max bid of $56 million. &nbsp;Yay for unrealistic budgeting!<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Jerry Brown tells unions to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/jerry-brown-urges-unions-to-attack.html\">attack&#8221; Whitman<\/a>. Whitman calls that <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/whitman-browns-style-of-politics-cynical-.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\">cynical<\/a>, apparently thinking that attempting to buy the race is full of puppies and daffodils.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Speaking of cynical, Whitman had, in a previous bid of partisanship grandeur, pledged <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/meg-whitman-reconsiders-republican-only-hiring-policy.html\">to only hire Republicans for the top 300 spots in her Administration<\/a>. She&#8217;s now reconsidering that now that it appears she&#8217;s kicking Poizner&#8217;s butt.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/obama-to-raise-money-for-boxer.html\">is going to do a fundraiser for Sen. Boxer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Environmentalists are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/03\/16\/1861867\/environmentalists-target-pombo.html\">once again taking on Richard Pombo<\/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-10824","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-2OA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824","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=10824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}