{"id":12094,"date":"2010-07-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-08T01:47:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T01:47:50","slug":"july-7-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/08\/july-7-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"July 7 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Darrell Issa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/07\/us\/politics\/07issa.html?_r=1&#038;ref=politics\">gets written up in the NY Times<\/a> as the President&#8217;s &#8220;Annoyer-in-Chief.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>* The GOP Candidate in the seat of termed out-Sen. Dean Florez wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/07\/thiesen_says_rubio_should_be_a.html\">allow his Democratic opponent on the ballot<\/a>. &nbsp;Long story short, Democratic nominee Sup. Michael Rubio, lives one house outside of the district, but the Kern County elections officials had told him that he was in the district. &nbsp;It should get sorted out through litigation shortly.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of Sen. Florez, he&#8217;s working to get the Governor&#8217;s support for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/07\/07\/2873168\/farm-overtime-bills-fate-up-to.html\">overtime for farmworkers bill<\/a> that has passed through the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/07\/proposition-19-marijuana-costs.html\">RAND did a study<\/a> on the effects of Prop 19&#8217;s marijuana legalization efforts. Summary: costs down, usage up. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Darrell Issa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/07\/us\/politics\/07issa.html?_r=1&#038;ref=politics\">gets written up in the NY Times<\/a> as the President&#8217;s &#8220;Annoyer-in-Chief.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>* The GOP Candidate in the seat of termed out-Sen. Dean Florez wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/07\/thiesen_says_rubio_should_be_a.html\">allow his Democratic opponent on the ballot<\/a>. &nbsp;Long story short, Democratic nominee Sup. Michael Rubio, lives one house outside of the district, but the Kern County elections officials had told him that he was in the district. &nbsp;It should get sorted out through litigation shortly.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of Sen. Florez, he&#8217;s working to get the Governor&#8217;s support for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/07\/07\/2873168\/farm-overtime-bills-fate-up-to.html\">overtime for farmworkers bill<\/a> that has passed through the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/07\/proposition-19-marijuana-costs.html\">RAND did a study<\/a> on the effects of Prop 19&#8217;s marijuana legalization efforts. Summary: costs down, usage up. &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-12094","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-394","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094","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=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}