{"id":11908,"date":"2010-06-19T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-19T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:38:37","slug":"june-19-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/19\/june-19-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"June 19 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Hey, I (Brian) am helping to organize the big Pride Breakfast for my local LGBT Democratic club here in San Francisco, the Alice B Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. &nbsp;If you are in SF, I hope you will consider attending, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/breakfast.alicebtoklas.org\">buy tickets here<\/a>. &nbsp;I&#8217;m told some of our Democratic legislative leaders as well as most of the Democratic statewide ticket will be there. &nbsp;And, it is right next to the beginning of the Pride parade at Yank Sing, so you can just leave the breakfast and you&#8217;ll be ready to go. &nbsp;Email me if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Will there be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/06\/19\/2833880\/was-this-furlough-friday-californias.html\">more furlough Fridays<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* Ooh&#8230;CSU Stanislaus is going to let media to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/06\/18\/2833553\/calif-university-will-allow-media.html#mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">Sarah Palin fundraiser<\/a>. &nbsp;Perhaps Calitics will send a delegation.<\/p>\n<p>* Are you a CalPERS member? Well, if so&#8230;congratulations! You now own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/06\/18\/2832944\/calpers-buys-share-of-londons.html\">part of London Gatwick airport<\/a>. As Robert suggests over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahsrblog.com\/2010\/06\/chsra-expects-bids-to-begin-in-2011\/\">California High Speed Rail Blog<\/a> CalPERS should consider doing the same with the high speed rail project.<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/06\/19\/MNQ41E1BNS.DTL\">Legislature is moving to remove a provision in the water bond<\/a> that would have allowed private entities to own and manage water facilities. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Hey, I (Brian) am helping to organize the big Pride Breakfast for my local LGBT Democratic club here in San Francisco, the Alice B Toklas LGBT Democratic Club. &nbsp;If you are in SF, I hope you will consider attending, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/breakfast.alicebtoklas.org\">buy tickets here<\/a>. &nbsp;I&#8217;m told some of our Democratic legislative leaders as well as most of the Democratic statewide ticket will be there. &nbsp;And, it is right next to the beginning of the Pride parade at Yank Sing, so you can just leave the breakfast and you&#8217;ll be ready to go. &nbsp;Email me if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Will there be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/06\/19\/2833880\/was-this-furlough-friday-californias.html\">more furlough Fridays<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* Ooh&#8230;CSU Stanislaus is going to let media to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/06\/18\/2833553\/calif-university-will-allow-media.html#mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">Sarah Palin fundraiser<\/a>. &nbsp;Perhaps Calitics will send a delegation.<\/p>\n<p>* Are you a CalPERS member? Well, if so&#8230;congratulations! You now own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/06\/18\/2832944\/calpers-buys-share-of-londons.html\">part of London Gatwick airport<\/a>. As Robert suggests over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahsrblog.com\/2010\/06\/chsra-expects-bids-to-begin-in-2011\/\">California High Speed Rail Blog<\/a> CalPERS should consider doing the same with the high speed rail project.<\/p>\n<p>* The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/06\/19\/MNQ41E1BNS.DTL\">Legislature is moving to remove a provision in the water bond<\/a> that would have allowed private entities to own and manage water facilities. &nbsp;<\/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-11908","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-364","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908","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=11908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}