{"id":11403,"date":"2010-04-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-09T03:29:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T03:29:21","slug":"april-8-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/09\/april-8-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 8 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Here is some good news: the latest attempt to silence labor <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/08\/drive-to-limit-unions-political-efforts-is-abandoned\/33297\/\">failed to gather enough signatures<\/a> and won&#8217;t be on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Disagree with Arnold on wanting to sell off state buildings? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/business\/ci_14846537\">Say adios to that shiny commission appointment<\/a>. Arnold got rid of two commissioners who opposed his plan to do a firesale on state buildings.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Public Utilities Commission told PG&#038;E and the other utilities to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/puc-tells-utili.html\">stop hindering the formation of community choice aggregation (CCA) programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Chris Kelly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/-he-takes-credi.html\">thinks that the electorate won&#8217;t hold it against him and Meg Whitman that they are trying to spend their way to victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Here is some good news: the latest attempt to silence labor <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/08\/drive-to-limit-unions-political-efforts-is-abandoned\/33297\/\">failed to gather enough signatures<\/a> and won&#8217;t be on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Disagree with Arnold on wanting to sell off state buildings? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/business\/ci_14846537\">Say adios to that shiny commission appointment<\/a>. Arnold got rid of two commissioners who opposed his plan to do a firesale on state buildings.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The Public Utilities Commission told PG&#038;E and the other utilities to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/puc-tells-utili.html\">stop hindering the formation of community choice aggregation (CCA) programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Chris Kelly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/-he-takes-credi.html\">thinks that the electorate won&#8217;t hold it against him and Meg Whitman that they are trying to spend their way to victory<\/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-11403","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-2XV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","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=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}