{"id":11886,"date":"2010-06-16T04:16:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T04:16:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-16T04:16:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T04:16:54","slug":"june-15-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/16\/june-15-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"June 15 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it&#8217;s the constitutional deadline for a legislative budget. Moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Michelle Obama and the kids <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/06\/michelle-obama-and-the-kids-take-on-la-pizza-mozza-pinks-lakers.html\">visited LA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* During the June cycle, the California Democratic Party raised over $11.3 million. The California Republican Party raised $3.3 million. &nbsp;Today, CRP chair Ron Nehring did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/06\/15\/rnc-state-gop-chairs-outline-path-to-victory\/\">conference call with RNC chair Michael Steele<\/a> to talk dollars. Coincidence? You decide.<\/p>\n<p>* Ho-hum. Another day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_15297568?source=rss&#038;nclick_check=1\">another $20 million check<\/a> from eMeg to her campaign. <\/p>\n<p>* Really? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/06\/license-plate-advertising-eyed.html\">License plates that change<\/a> when standing still so the DMV can sell space on them? <\/p>\n<p>* Mike Villines cut into the lead of Brian FitzGerald in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/06\/villines-halves-fitzgeralds-le.html\">GOP nomination for InsComm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, it&#8217;s the constitutional deadline for a legislative budget. Moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Michelle Obama and the kids <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/06\/michelle-obama-and-the-kids-take-on-la-pizza-mozza-pinks-lakers.html\">visited LA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* During the June cycle, the California Democratic Party raised over $11.3 million. The California Republican Party raised $3.3 million. &nbsp;Today, CRP chair Ron Nehring did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/politics\/2010\/06\/15\/rnc-state-gop-chairs-outline-path-to-victory\/\">conference call with RNC chair Michael Steele<\/a> to talk dollars. Coincidence? You decide.<\/p>\n<p>* Ho-hum. Another day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/bay-area-news\/ci_15297568?source=rss&#038;nclick_check=1\">another $20 million check<\/a> from eMeg to her campaign. <\/p>\n<p>* Really? <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/06\/license-plate-advertising-eyed.html\">License plates that change<\/a> when standing still so the DMV can sell space on them? <\/p>\n<p>* Mike Villines cut into the lead of Brian FitzGerald in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/06\/villines-halves-fitzgeralds-le.html\">GOP nomination for InsComm<\/a>.<\/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-11886","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-35I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","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=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}