{"id":11752,"date":"2010-05-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-26T17:35:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:35:04","slug":"may-26-2010-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/27\/may-26-2010-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"May 26, 2010 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* The San Luis Obispo county Board of Supervisors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2010\/05\/25\/1153762\/divided-county-supervisors-vote.html\">voted to oppose PG&#038;E&#8217;s Prop 16 power grab<\/a>, citing its monopolistic and anti-democratic goals.<\/p>\n<p>* Reps. Gary Miller and David Dreier are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_15160744?source=rss\">facing primary challenges from the Tea baggers<\/a>. Both challengers are underfunded, but both are showing signs of nerves.<\/p>\n<p>* Shane Goldmacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-treas-controller-20100526,0,216255.story\">looks at the Controller and Treasurer races<\/a>. &nbsp;Mimi Walters is running against Lockyer for Treasurer, but with Lockyer&#8217;s huge war chest, he should have no problems. &nbsp;John Chiang has been praised both among the financial community and the labor community. Meanwhile, Tony Stickland has to love this closing sentence at a time of the worst oil spill in history: &#8220;Strickland said that, if elected, he would push for the oil drilling proposal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The City of Dana Point and the Coastal Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0526-beach-access-20100526,0,2886924.story\">are in a big fight<\/a> over access paths to the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* The San Luis Obispo county Board of Supervisors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2010\/05\/25\/1153762\/divided-county-supervisors-vote.html\">voted to oppose PG&#038;E&#8217;s Prop 16 power grab<\/a>, citing its monopolistic and anti-democratic goals.<\/p>\n<p>* Reps. Gary Miller and David Dreier are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_15160744?source=rss\">facing primary challenges from the Tea baggers<\/a>. Both challengers are underfunded, but both are showing signs of nerves.<\/p>\n<p>* Shane Goldmacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-treas-controller-20100526,0,216255.story\">looks at the Controller and Treasurer races<\/a>. &nbsp;Mimi Walters is running against Lockyer for Treasurer, but with Lockyer&#8217;s huge war chest, he should have no problems. &nbsp;John Chiang has been praised both among the financial community and the labor community. Meanwhile, Tony Stickland has to love this closing sentence at a time of the worst oil spill in history: &#8220;Strickland said that, if elected, he would push for the oil drilling proposal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* The City of Dana Point and the Coastal Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0526-beach-access-20100526,0,2886924.story\">are in a big fight<\/a> over access paths to the coast.<\/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-11752","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-33y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752","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=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}