{"id":11142,"date":"2010-02-19T22:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-19T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:50:18","slug":"meg-confuses-us-with-the-facts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/19\/meg-confuses-us-with-the-facts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg Confuses Us With the &#8220;Facts&#8221; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In her latest radio screed decrying the size of state government, Meg Whitman complains that (gasp):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;there are more than 3,400 lawyers on the state payroll. That&#8217;s twice as many as in the nation&#8217;s largest law firm!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, duh, in a state with more than 30 million people and a multi-billion-dollar economy, doesn&#8217;t it stand to reason that we might need a few more lawyers than a law firm? Kinda like comparing apples and bowling balls.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, but just like her longevity in California E(exaggeration) Meg never lets the facts get in the way of a good sound bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her latest radio screed decrying the size of state government, Meg Whitman complains that (gasp):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;there are more than 3,400 lawyers on the state payroll. That&#8217;s twice as many as in the nation&#8217;s largest law firm!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, duh, in a state with more than 30 million people and a multi-billion-dollar economy, doesn&#8217;t it stand to reason that we might need a few more lawyers than a law firm? Kinda like comparing apples and bowling balls.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, but just like her longevity in California E(exaggeration) Meg never lets the facts get in the way of a good sound bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"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":[],"class_list":["post-11142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2TI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142","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\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}