{"id":11415,"date":"2010-04-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-27T03:08:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T03:08:35","slug":"april-26-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/27\/april-26-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 26 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckdevore.com\/billboard\/\">Chuck DeVore has an awesome billboard<\/a> that you can help fund. &nbsp;It&#8217;s even got We the People in it, so it must be good, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;What&#8217;s the old Rovian saying, attack your opponents strengths? Well, perhaps eMeg got the memo backward or something. She&#8217;s now attacking Brown on her own weaknesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/tables-turned-whitman-criticizes-brown-his-ties-goldman-sachs\">by going after some tangential connections to Goldman Sachs<\/a>. For a former board member of Goldman Sachs, that seems rich.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;More from the great new site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/california-companies-spend-66-million-lobbying-first-quarter\">California Watch. They have a review of top poltical spenders<\/a> for the first quarter. Tops on the list, by a lot? None other than PG&#038;E. Their $25M+ is well more than 8 times any other corporate lobby effort.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14957825?source=rss\">Polling shows a lead for the Yes position<\/a>in the Santa Clara bond measure that would bring the &#8220;San Francisco&#8221; 49ers to Santa Clara. It&#8217;s at 52-36 right now.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;The state may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/ci_14956570?source=rss\">expand a system that rates preschools<\/a> that began in LA&#8217;s South Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckdevore.com\/billboard\/\">Chuck DeVore has an awesome billboard<\/a> that you can help fund. &nbsp;It&#8217;s even got We the People in it, so it must be good, right? Right?<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;What&#8217;s the old Rovian saying, attack your opponents strengths? Well, perhaps eMeg got the memo backward or something. She&#8217;s now attacking Brown on her own weaknesses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/tables-turned-whitman-criticizes-brown-his-ties-goldman-sachs\">by going after some tangential connections to Goldman Sachs<\/a>. For a former board member of Goldman Sachs, that seems rich.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;More from the great new site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/california-companies-spend-66-million-lobbying-first-quarter\">California Watch. They have a review of top poltical spenders<\/a> for the first quarter. Tops on the list, by a lot? None other than PG&#038;E. Their $25M+ is well more than 8 times any other corporate lobby effort.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_14957825?source=rss\">Polling shows a lead for the Yes position<\/a>in the Santa Clara bond measure that would bring the &#8220;San Francisco&#8221; 49ers to Santa Clara. 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