{"id":11661,"date":"2010-05-12T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-12T04:16:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T04:16:31","slug":"may-11-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/12\/may-11-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"May 11 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" align=right hspace=5><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11606569&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>* Some grassroots activists are starting a new website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noprop16films.org\/\">NoProp16Films.org<\/a>. The video to the right is the first project.<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/11606569\">COMMUNITY SPEAKS<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3758393\">No on Prop16 Films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Arnold: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/05\/schwarzenegger-california-budget-absolutely-terrible-cuts.html\">Everything is on the table<\/a>. Just not additional revenue. Even according to his staff, the cuts will be &#8220;absolutely terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Boeing workers in Long Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-boeing-strike-20100512,0,7143388.story\">are going on strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Immigration in the GOP primary has become quite the little issue. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/05\/poizner-makes-a-run-for-the-border.html\">Steve Poizner is making speeches from the border<\/a>, and Meg Whitman is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/05\/pete-wilson-to.html\">Pete &#8220;Prop 187&#8221; Wilson to cut some ads for her<\/a>. &nbsp;And they keep drifting to the right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* A candidate in the CA-11 GOP Primary, Brad Goehring, (not Hermann) decided that it would be a good idea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/11\/cd11-goehring-wants-to-thin-liberal-herd\/\">to post on his facebook page<\/a> that it should be &#8220;open season on liberals&#8221; and that he &#8220;needed to thin the herd.&#8221; &nbsp;He says it was a joke. I say it is outrageously offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" align=right hspace=5><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11606569&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11606569&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>* Some grassroots activists are starting a new website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noprop16films.org\/\">NoProp16Films.org<\/a>. The video to the right is the first project.<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/11606569\">COMMUNITY SPEAKS<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3758393\">No on Prop16 Films<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Arnold: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/05\/schwarzenegger-california-budget-absolutely-terrible-cuts.html\">Everything is on the table<\/a>. Just not additional revenue. Even according to his staff, the cuts will be &#8220;absolutely terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* Boeing workers in Long Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-boeing-strike-20100512,0,7143388.story\">are going on strike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Immigration in the GOP primary has become quite the little issue. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/05\/poizner-makes-a-run-for-the-border.html\">Steve Poizner is making speeches from the border<\/a>, and Meg Whitman is getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/05\/pete-wilson-to.html\">Pete &#8220;Prop 187&#8221; Wilson to cut some ads for her<\/a>. &nbsp;And they keep drifting to the right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* A candidate in the CA-11 GOP Primary, Brad Goehring, (not Hermann) decided that it would be a good idea <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/11\/cd11-goehring-wants-to-thin-liberal-herd\/\">to post on his facebook page<\/a> that it should be &#8220;open season on liberals&#8221; and that he &#8220;needed to thin the herd.&#8221; &nbsp;He says it was a joke. I say it is outrageously offensive.<\/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-11661","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-325","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661","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=11661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}