{"id":11115,"date":"2010-02-17T17:07:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:07:24","slug":"cagov-zsa-zsa-gabors-8th-husband-is-in-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/17\/cagov-zsa-zsa-gabors-8th-husband-is-in-the-race\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-Gov: Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 8th husband is in the race!"},"content":{"rendered":"

WTF???  Prince Frederic von Anhalt<\/a>, better known as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 8th husband, has declared he’s running as an independent for the Governorship.  It looks like he’s running on a pretty liberal platform, what with being in favor of gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, and raising taxes on certain products.<\/p>\n

He already has a platform (titled “Return the Good Life to California”) that is sure to win favor with a certain segment of California’s electorate. He wants to lift the import ban on Cuban cigars, then tax them, and reduce vehicle-registration fees, making up the difference in part by taxing “bad drivers.”<\/p>\n

He also is offering what he says are realistic proposals that will have an immediate effect on California’s $20 billion budget deficit.<\/p>\n

One proposal is a “sin tax” on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, as well as marijuana and prostitution, which, under his platform, would be legalized.<\/p>\n

“Marijuana is a big industry already,” von Anhalt said in a telephone interview from his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air, where he cares for his 93-year-old wife. “Let’s legalize it, tax it, make some money and put less people in jail.”<\/p>\n

A statewide initiative to legalize and tax marijuana is likely to appear on the November ballot.<\/p>\n

He also favors repealing the ban on gay marriage, which voters wrote into the state constitution in 2008.<\/p>\n

“I believe in marriage between men and women, but I am also a defender of the constitution, which says equal rights for all,” he said in his platform. “Let them be as miserable as the rest of us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, why am I finding out about this in the Boston Globe, rather than the L.A. Times or the San Francisco Chronicle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WTF???  Prince Frederic von Anhalt<\/a>, better known as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 8th husband, has declared he’s running as an independent for the Governorship.  It looks like he’s running on a pretty liberal platform, what with being in favor of gay marriage, legalizing marijuana, and raising taxes on certain products.<\/p>\n

He already has a platform (titled “Return the Good Life to California”) that is sure to win favor with a certain segment of California’s electorate. He wants to lift the import ban on Cuban cigars, then tax them, and reduce vehicle-registration fees, making up the difference in part by taxing “bad drivers.”<\/p>\n

He also is offering what he says are realistic proposals that will have an immediate effect on California’s $20 billion budget deficit.<\/p>\n

One proposal is a “sin tax” on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes, as well as marijuana and prostitution, which, under his platform, would be legalized.<\/p>\n

“Marijuana is a big industry already,” von Anhalt said in a telephone interview from his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air, where he cares for his 93-year-old wife. “Let’s legalize it, tax it, make some money and put less people in jail.”<\/p>\n

A statewide initiative to legalize and tax marijuana is likely to appear on the November ballot.<\/p>\n

He also favors repealing the ban on gay marriage, which voters wrote into the state constitution in 2008.<\/p>\n

“I believe in marriage between men and women, but I am also a defender of the constitution, which says equal rights for all,” he said in his platform. “Let them be as miserable as the rest of us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, why am I finding out about this in the Boston Globe, rather than the L.A. Times or the San Francisco Chronicle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"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":[415,8424],"class_list":["post-11115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-8424"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Th","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115","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\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}