{"id":11406,"date":"2010-04-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-14T01:44:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T01:44:48","slug":"april-13-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/14\/april-13-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 13 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Carly Fiorina is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/carly-fiorina-l.html\">leading the Republican money race in the Senate primary<\/a>. All three candidates are trailing Sen. Boxer.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Gov. Schwarzenegger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/carly-fiorina-l.html\">is not pleased with Poizner&#8217;s latest ad<\/a>, which goes after Arnold on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CSU-Stanislaus is in a fight with, well, everybody, over the speaking fees for Sarah Palin&#8217;s appearance. Today, the big news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/13\/2675768\/csu-stanislaus-students-find-palin.html\">a contract was found in the dumpster, partially shredded<\/a>. &nbsp;The university&#8217;s position is rather untenable here. They are arguing that it&#8217;s a private foundation, yet the foundation is staffed by almost all faculty or administration. They can get whomever they want to speak, but they need to be honest with the state of California.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Care to take a guess at who pays the highest tax rate? It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/13\/californias-poor-pay-the-highest-tax-rate\/33613\/\">the poorest 20%<\/a>. &nbsp;With sales taxes, that quintile pays the highest percentage of their income to taxes. Meanwhile, the Cal Chamber cries crocodile tears about the high tax rates on income over a million dollars. You can find the details in a <a href=\"http:\/\/cbp.org\/pdfs\/2010\/100412_pp_who_pays_taxes.pdf\">CA Budget Project Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Carly Fiorina is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/carly-fiorina-l.html\">leading the Republican money race in the Senate primary<\/a>. All three candidates are trailing Sen. Boxer.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Gov. Schwarzenegger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/carly-fiorina-l.html\">is not pleased with Poizner&#8217;s latest ad<\/a>, which goes after Arnold on immigration.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;CSU-Stanislaus is in a fight with, well, everybody, over the speaking fees for Sarah Palin&#8217;s appearance. Today, the big news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/13\/2675768\/csu-stanislaus-students-find-palin.html\">a contract was found in the dumpster, partially shredded<\/a>. &nbsp;The university&#8217;s position is rather untenable here. They are arguing that it&#8217;s a private foundation, yet the foundation is staffed by almost all faculty or administration. They can get whomever they want to speak, but they need to be honest with the state of California.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Care to take a guess at who pays the highest tax rate? It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com\/2010\/04\/13\/californias-poor-pay-the-highest-tax-rate\/33613\/\">the poorest 20%<\/a>. &nbsp;With sales taxes, that quintile pays the highest percentage of their income to taxes. Meanwhile, the Cal Chamber cries crocodile tears about the high tax rates on income over a million dollars. You can find the details in a <a href=\"http:\/\/cbp.org\/pdfs\/2010\/100412_pp_who_pays_taxes.pdf\">CA Budget Project Report<\/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-11406","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-2XY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406","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=11406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}