{"id":12194,"date":"2010-07-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-28T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T01:26:48","slug":"july-27-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/28\/july-27-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"July 27 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Looks like there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/post-16.html\">three debates between Whitman and Brown<\/a>. &nbsp;Brown had previously accepted ten invites, but Whitman was looking for a little less airtime.<\/p>\n<p>* The Democratic nominee (<a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/07\/thiesen_says_rubio_should_be_a.html\">well, sorta<\/a>) to replace Sen. Dean Florez in the Senate, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=68757\">dropped some campaign bucks on a radio ad blasting Prop 19<\/a>. There are even some cute cliches in there and everything. But, make no mistake, it&#8217;s still a campaign ad for his senate campaign. (<a href=\"http:\/\/media.fresnobee.com\/smedia\/2010\/07\/26\/14\/RubioSpot.source.prod_affiliate.8.mp3\">MP3 here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>* The LA Times is following up on the stories about Bell. First, there&#8217;s the story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-bell-cuts-20100727,0,5834864.story\">how the City was cutting services while giving top staff big increases<\/a>, and then the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0727-bell-paycut-m,0,3867836.story\">the city council cut their salaries down to $673\/month<\/a>, a 90% cut. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Guess who is giving money to both Carly Fiorina and Prop 23 (kill AB32)? &nbsp;Why, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/1-ohio-coal-company-donated-fiorina-also-gave-prop-23\">the coal interests<\/a>, of course. &nbsp;I mean, why not, Barbara Boxer is <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/greenhouse\/post\/2010\/06\/carly-fiorina-calls-climate-change-the-weather\/1\">always worrying about the &#8220;weather&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Marisa Lagos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/07\/27\/MND41EIE5G.DTL\">outlines the battle over funding municipalities and counties<\/a> and Prop 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Looks like there will be <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/post-16.html\">three debates between Whitman and Brown<\/a>. &nbsp;Brown had previously accepted ten invites, but Whitman was looking for a little less airtime.<\/p>\n<p>* The Democratic nominee (<a href=\"http:\/\/fresnobeehive.com\/news\/2010\/07\/thiesen_says_rubio_should_be_a.html\">well, sorta<\/a>) to replace Sen. Dean Florez in the Senate, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=68757\">dropped some campaign bucks on a radio ad blasting Prop 19<\/a>. There are even some cute cliches in there and everything. But, make no mistake, it&#8217;s still a campaign ad for his senate campaign. (<a href=\"http:\/\/media.fresnobee.com\/smedia\/2010\/07\/26\/14\/RubioSpot.source.prod_affiliate.8.mp3\">MP3 here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>* The LA Times is following up on the stories about Bell. First, there&#8217;s the story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-bell-cuts-20100727,0,5834864.story\">how the City was cutting services while giving top staff big increases<\/a>, and then the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0727-bell-paycut-m,0,3867836.story\">the city council cut their salaries down to $673\/month<\/a>, a 90% cut. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Guess who is giving money to both Carly Fiorina and Prop 23 (kill AB32)? &nbsp;Why, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/1-ohio-coal-company-donated-fiorina-also-gave-prop-23\">the coal interests<\/a>, of course. &nbsp;I mean, why not, Barbara Boxer is <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/greenhouse\/post\/2010\/06\/carly-fiorina-calls-climate-change-the-weather\/1\">always worrying about the &#8220;weather&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Marisa Lagos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/07\/27\/MND41EIE5G.DTL\">outlines the battle over funding municipalities and counties<\/a> and Prop 22.<\/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-12194","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-3aG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194","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=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}