{"id":11400,"date":"2010-04-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-06T01:14:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T01:14:29","slug":"april-5-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/06\/april-5-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 5 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;If you are in the Bay Area, on 4\/10, the Commonwealth Club&#8217;s Inforum program will be <a href=\"http:\/\/tickets.commonwealthclub.org\/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&#038;shcode=1717\">hosting Democracy Now&#8217;s Amy Goodman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Tom Campbell announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/05\/campbell-raises-1-6-million-for-senate-bid\/33017\/\">he raised $1.6 million for his Senate bid<\/a>, which is substantially more than he raised for his run for Governor. That doesn&#8217;t change that he wants to repeal the health care reform measure.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Tea baggers haven&#8217;t really gained steam in California, so <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/04\/poll-shows-california-is-a-hard-sell-for-conservative-movement.html\">writes Anthony York<\/a>. DeVore still languishes far behind in the Senate race, and Poizner&#8217;s pandering to the base hasn&#8217;t yet worked for him.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Former Dem. state Sen. Al Rodda <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/05\/2656467\/rodda-longtime-democratic-senator.html\">passed away yesterday<\/a>. He served in the Senate for 22 years and was known as a champion of liberal causes.<\/p>\n<p>* Poizner is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2010\/04\/05\/even-if-its-amnesty-is-it-okay\/\">attack Whitman on immigration<\/a>, and it looks like it&#8217;s going to get ugly.<\/p>\n<p>* This is really bad news. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/04\/la-could-run-out-of-cash-by-may-10-controller-warns.html\">Los Angeles will run out of money by early May<\/a> and will deplete the reserve funds before the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;If you are in the Bay Area, on 4\/10, the Commonwealth Club&#8217;s Inforum program will be <a href=\"http:\/\/tickets.commonwealthclub.org\/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=1&#038;shcode=1717\">hosting Democracy Now&#8217;s Amy Goodman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Tom Campbell announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/05\/campbell-raises-1-6-million-for-senate-bid\/33017\/\">he raised $1.6 million for his Senate bid<\/a>, which is substantially more than he raised for his run for Governor. That doesn&#8217;t change that he wants to repeal the health care reform measure.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Tea baggers haven&#8217;t really gained steam in California, so <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/04\/poll-shows-california-is-a-hard-sell-for-conservative-movement.html\">writes Anthony York<\/a>. DeVore still languishes far behind in the Senate race, and Poizner&#8217;s pandering to the base hasn&#8217;t yet worked for him.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Former Dem. state Sen. Al Rodda <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/05\/2656467\/rodda-longtime-democratic-senator.html\">passed away yesterday<\/a>. He served in the Senate for 22 years and was known as a champion of liberal causes.<\/p>\n<p>* Poizner is going to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2010\/04\/05\/even-if-its-amnesty-is-it-okay\/\">attack Whitman on immigration<\/a>, and it looks like it&#8217;s going to get ugly.<\/p>\n<p>* This is really bad news. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/04\/la-could-run-out-of-cash-by-may-10-controller-warns.html\">Los Angeles will run out of money by early May<\/a> and will deplete the reserve funds before the next fiscal year.<\/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-11400","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-2XS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400","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=11400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}