{"id":10830,"date":"2010-03-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-25T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T22:37:10","slug":"march-25-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/26\/march-25-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"March 25 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The CA State Association of Counties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csac.counties.org\/blogs\/index.php\/2010\/03\/california-counties-say-no-to-prop-16\/\">said NO to Prop 16, the PG&#038;E Hidden Agendas Scheme<\/a>. The law would require a <b>2\/3<\/b> vote of the people to allow a community to start a community choice aggregation (CCA) programs. &nbsp;They&#8217;re planning on spending $35 million to pass the measure.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Mike Murphy, who has been paid nearly half a million dollars by Meg Whitman since he joined the campaign in November, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/25\/murphy-46-million-isnt-as-much-as-it-sounds-like-in-a-state-like-california\/\">$46 million isn&#8217;t really that much<\/a>. Riiiight.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Republicans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=59900\">standing tall for Medicare Advantage<\/a>, and they&#8217;re going to let everybody know that Barbara Boxer doesn&#8217;t. Thing is, Medicare Advantage is basically a program to shovel large amounts of cash into the pockets of insurance companies. It&#8217;s a private add-on program that survey after report after study has shown is a boondoggle and waste of money. And often, also <a href=\"http:\/\/cronespeaks.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/02\/the-failure-of-medicare-advantage\/\">something of a racket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Yes on 14 Campaign, the St. Abel Open primary measure, is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/open-primary-campaign-in-the-red.html\">in the red by about $90K<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The CA State Association of Counties <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csac.counties.org\/blogs\/index.php\/2010\/03\/california-counties-say-no-to-prop-16\/\">said NO to Prop 16, the PG&#038;E Hidden Agendas Scheme<\/a>. The law would require a <b>2\/3<\/b> vote of the people to allow a community to start a community choice aggregation (CCA) programs. &nbsp;They&#8217;re planning on spending $35 million to pass the measure.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Mike Murphy, who has been paid nearly half a million dollars by Meg Whitman since he joined the campaign in November, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/25\/murphy-46-million-isnt-as-much-as-it-sounds-like-in-a-state-like-california\/\">$46 million isn&#8217;t really that much<\/a>. Riiiight.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Republicans are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=59900\">standing tall for Medicare Advantage<\/a>, and they&#8217;re going to let everybody know that Barbara Boxer doesn&#8217;t. Thing is, Medicare Advantage is basically a program to shovel large amounts of cash into the pockets of insurance companies. It&#8217;s a private add-on program that survey after report after study has shown is a boondoggle and waste of money. And often, also <a href=\"http:\/\/cronespeaks.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/02\/the-failure-of-medicare-advantage\/\">something of a racket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Yes on 14 Campaign, the St. Abel Open primary measure, is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/open-primary-campaign-in-the-red.html\">in the red by about $90K<\/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-10830","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-2OG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","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=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}