{"id":11398,"date":"2010-04-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-02T00:04:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T00:04:24","slug":"april-1-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/02\/april-1-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 1 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Chuck DeVore really can&#8217;t take a joke. &nbsp;Apparently, he didn&#8217;t like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberaloc.com\/2010\/04\/01\/surprisng-guests-at-rnc-voyeur-night-club-young-eagles-outing\/\">idea that he was at the Voyeur Club at the heart of the recent RNC dustup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The California Accountability Project has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaaccountability.com\/blog\/meg-whitmans-rhetoric-latinos-doesnt-match-reality-video\">some information on Meg Whitman&#8217;s record with Latinos<\/a>. And, as an added bonus, don&#8217;t forget that Pete Wilson, Prop 187 Champion, is her campaign chair.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Speaking of Whitman, she&#8217;s now spent over $40 Million, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/04\/emegs-wish-list-what-40-million-could-buy\/\">CalBuzz has some suggestions for other uses for that kind of dough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=60326\">Whitman appeared on Hannity, sans Poizner<\/a>. She went all cliche, and alluded to the Tea Party\/Glenn Beck slogan. Which is good, because apparently she&#8217;s all about repeal of the health care bill now. &nbsp;Yay for her!<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/01\/2647983\/critics-want-to-know-palins-fee.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">is coming to CSU Stanislaus with her &#8220;populism for pay&#8221; schtick<\/a>. The question is, how much is she being paid? And couldn&#8217;t that money have better gone to serving students instead of ideology. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Chuck DeVore really can&#8217;t take a joke. &nbsp;Apparently, he didn&#8217;t like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliberaloc.com\/2010\/04\/01\/surprisng-guests-at-rnc-voyeur-night-club-young-eagles-outing\/\">idea that he was at the Voyeur Club at the heart of the recent RNC dustup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The California Accountability Project has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaaccountability.com\/blog\/meg-whitmans-rhetoric-latinos-doesnt-match-reality-video\">some information on Meg Whitman&#8217;s record with Latinos<\/a>. And, as an added bonus, don&#8217;t forget that Pete Wilson, Prop 187 Champion, is her campaign chair.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Speaking of Whitman, she&#8217;s now spent over $40 Million, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/04\/emegs-wish-list-what-40-million-could-buy\/\">CalBuzz has some suggestions for other uses for that kind of dough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=60326\">Whitman appeared on Hannity, sans Poizner<\/a>. She went all cliche, and alluded to the Tea Party\/Glenn Beck slogan. Which is good, because apparently she&#8217;s all about repeal of the health care bill now. &nbsp;Yay for her!<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Sarah Palin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/01\/2647983\/critics-want-to-know-palins-fee.html#mi_rss=State%20Politics\">is coming to CSU Stanislaus with her &#8220;populism for pay&#8221; schtick<\/a>. The question is, how much is she being paid? And couldn&#8217;t that money have better gone to serving students instead of ideology. &nbsp;<\/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-11398","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-2XQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","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=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}