{"id":11407,"date":"2010-04-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-15T02:35:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T02:35:11","slug":"april-14-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/15\/april-14-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 14 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;FPPC Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/fair-political.html\">Ross Johnson is stepping down at the end of April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Apparently Justice Carlos Moreno <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-scotus14-2010apr14,0,5302828.story\">is on the &#8220;short list&#8221; for the Supreme Court<\/a>. He&#8217;s a little older than you&#8217;d like, he&#8217;s 61, but he really is a very solid jurist. &nbsp;Obama could do a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Roy Ashburn was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=61269\">sentenced to two days in jail<\/a> for his DUI arrest that eventually caused him to come out as a gay, well, a gay Roy Ashburn.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Interestingly, LA City Council members <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uscannenberg.org\/neontommy\/2010\/04\/greuel-mostgifted-city-leader.html\">are not very wealthy<\/a>. Also what is Tony Cardenas&#8217; wife&#8217;s business? It&#8217;s described as &#8220;Dog Psych Center&#8221; consulting services.<\/p>\n<p>* Tom Del Beccarro, the Vice-Chair of the CA Republicans, swears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=61289\">he&#8217;s not a birther and his quote was totally out of context<\/a>. How much you wanna bet <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/apr\/13\/local\/la-me-taxday14-2010apr14\">that the original reporter has tape<\/a>. Seriously, why are people so dumb as to go with the &#8220;out of context&#8221; defense? This isn&#8217;t 1955 anymore, digital audio is everywhere people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;FPPC Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/04\/fair-political.html\">Ross Johnson is stepping down at the end of April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Apparently Justice Carlos Moreno <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-scotus14-2010apr14,0,5302828.story\">is on the &#8220;short list&#8221; for the Supreme Court<\/a>. He&#8217;s a little older than you&#8217;d like, he&#8217;s 61, but he really is a very solid jurist. &nbsp;Obama could do a lot worse.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Roy Ashburn was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=61269\">sentenced to two days in jail<\/a> for his DUI arrest that eventually caused him to come out as a gay, well, a gay Roy Ashburn.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Interestingly, LA City Council members <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uscannenberg.org\/neontommy\/2010\/04\/greuel-mostgifted-city-leader.html\">are not very wealthy<\/a>. Also what is Tony Cardenas&#8217; wife&#8217;s business? It&#8217;s described as &#8220;Dog Psych Center&#8221; consulting services.<\/p>\n<p>* Tom Del Beccarro, the Vice-Chair of the CA Republicans, swears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=61289\">he&#8217;s not a birther and his quote was totally out of context<\/a>. How much you wanna bet <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/apr\/13\/local\/la-me-taxday14-2010apr14\">that the original reporter has tape<\/a>. Seriously, why are people so dumb as to go with the &#8220;out of context&#8221; defense? This isn&#8217;t 1955 anymore, digital audio is everywhere people.<\/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-11407","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-2XZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","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=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}