{"id":11410,"date":"2010-04-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-20T04:46:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T04:46:46","slug":"april-19-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/20\/april-19-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 19 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/19\/2689871\/obama-heads-west-to-boost-democratic.html\">President Obama rallies Democrats in LA today<\/a> to work hard to re-elect Senator Barbara Boxer. There were rumors flying that Obama would be at the CDP convention, but obviously that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/action.jerrybrown.org\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=1665\">Jerry Brown launches an online petition<\/a> calling on Meg Whitman to debate himself and Steve Poizner. We&#8217;ll see if it entices eMeg to change her mind and give the public a chance to assess the candidates together. If debates were good enough for Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, surely they&#8217;re good enough for Meg Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Capistrano Unified teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/capistranoinsider.typepad.com\/beyond_the_blackboard\/2010\/04\/cuea-offers-to-accept-brysons-offer-yes-could-avert-strike.html\">issue their demands to avert a strike<\/a>, as the teachers lead the fight against a right-wing school board determined to use CUSD as a proving ground for right-wing ideologies. More from <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=11545\">Ellinorianne here at Calitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The fight over the CA-36 endorsement isn&#8217;t over yet, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=10150169968035206\">Marcy Winograd questions the accuracy of the vote count<\/a> at yesterday&#8217;s CDP convention floor session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/04\/19\/2689871\/obama-heads-west-to-boost-democratic.html\">President Obama rallies Democrats in LA today<\/a> to work hard to re-elect Senator Barbara Boxer. There were rumors flying that Obama would be at the CDP convention, but obviously that didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/action.jerrybrown.org\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=1665\">Jerry Brown launches an online petition<\/a> calling on Meg Whitman to debate himself and Steve Poizner. We&#8217;ll see if it entices eMeg to change her mind and give the public a chance to assess the candidates together. If debates were good enough for Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan, surely they&#8217;re good enough for Meg Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Capistrano Unified teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/capistranoinsider.typepad.com\/beyond_the_blackboard\/2010\/04\/cuea-offers-to-accept-brysons-offer-yes-could-avert-strike.html\">issue their demands to avert a strike<\/a>, as the teachers lead the fight against a right-wing school board determined to use CUSD as a proving ground for right-wing ideologies. More from <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=11545\">Ellinorianne here at Calitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The fight over the CA-36 endorsement isn&#8217;t over yet, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note.php?note_id=10150169968035206\">Marcy Winograd questions the accuracy of the vote count<\/a> at yesterday&#8217;s CDP convention floor session.<\/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-11410","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-2Y2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410","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=11410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}