{"id":11839,"date":"2010-06-09T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:31:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-09T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:31:51","slug":"why-prop-16-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/why-prop-16-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Prop. 16 Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PG&#038;E Service Area Map:<\/p>\n<p><a target='_blank' title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http:\/\/img34.imageshack.us\/i\/pgeserviceterritory.jpg\/'><img src='http:\/\/img34.imageshack.us\/img34\/5784\/pgeserviceterritory.jpg' border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prop 16 Results Map:<\/p>\n<p><a target='_blank' title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http:\/\/img218.imageshack.us\/i\/picture1wp.png\/'><img src='http:\/\/img218.imageshack.us\/img218\/3331\/picture1wp.png' border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that the residents of the &#8220;no&#8221; counties were effectively the ones fundraising for the $40 million that PG&#038;E spent on this election, given that several of these counties &#8211; San Francisco, Yolo, Sacramento, Marin, Sonoma &#8211; have already tried to get out from under PG&#038;E&#8217;s monopoly several times before, given that the San Joaquin counties were recently jobbed with the &#8220;smart&#8221; meter program that systematically overcharged ratepayers, and given that most of us still remember the bonuses paid to executives right before declaring bankruptcy after the Enron con job, this shouldn&#8217;t be surprising. <\/p>\n<p>And yet the match of the two maps is startlingly close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PG&#038;E Service Area Map:<\/p>\n<p><a target='_blank' title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http:\/\/img34.imageshack.us\/i\/pgeserviceterritory.jpg\/'><img src='http:\/\/img34.imageshack.us\/img34\/5784\/pgeserviceterritory.jpg' border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prop 16 Results Map:<\/p>\n<p><a target='_blank' title='ImageShack - Image And Video Hosting' href='http:\/\/img218.imageshack.us\/i\/picture1wp.png\/'><img src='http:\/\/img218.imageshack.us\/img218\/3331\/picture1wp.png' border='0'\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"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":[87],"tags":[8867,8876,8758],"class_list":["post-11839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-87","tag-8867","tag-8876","tag-8758"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-34X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}