{"id":12225,"date":"2010-07-31T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-31T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T02:05:00","slug":"july-30-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/31\/july-30-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"July 30 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Dan Lungren <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/lungren-has-speeding-interview.html\">got busted for speeding while doing an interview<\/a> on the radio this morning.<\/p>\n<p>* Jerry Brown announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrybrown.org\/fightingforyou\">some plans for education and the environment on his website<\/a>, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/07\/if-a-candidate-announces-a-plan-in-the-woods-and-no-one-hears-it-.html\">nobody was paying attention<\/a>. &nbsp;I guess you have to put out a 40 page glossy magazine to a million people to get any attention these days.<\/p>\n<p>* Mark Leno <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/15840232?video=1553738956&#038;play=1\">appeared on CNBC to talk about cell phone radiation<\/a>. The cell phone industry group (CTIA) has been fighting point of purchase disclosure for some time now. &nbsp;Apparently the truth won&#8217;t set you free at your local Radio Shack.<\/p>\n<p>* The Federal government <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/federal-government-blocks-edfu.html\">blocked the sale of EdFund<\/a>. So much for another budget gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>* Some of the gaming tribes are among the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/committe-backed-tribes-announces-intent-raise-unlimited-cash-71-4\">to use the <i>Citizens United<\/i> loopholes<\/a>. &nbsp;They used some of their cash to support Jeff Denham&#8217;s Congressional bid.<\/p>\n<p>* Arnold: Well&#8230;maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/29\/governor-state-budget-can-pass-term-ends\/\">we can pass a budget this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* The Bay Area Council <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahsrblog.com\/2010\/07\/bay-area-council-slams-pcc\/\">slams a group of Peninsula cities<\/a> for obstructing the high speed rail project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Dan Lungren <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/lungren-has-speeding-interview.html\">got busted for speeding while doing an interview<\/a> on the radio this morning.<\/p>\n<p>* Jerry Brown announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrybrown.org\/fightingforyou\">some plans for education and the environment on his website<\/a>, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/07\/if-a-candidate-announces-a-plan-in-the-woods-and-no-one-hears-it-.html\">nobody was paying attention<\/a>. &nbsp;I guess you have to put out a 40 page glossy magazine to a million people to get any attention these days.<\/p>\n<p>* Mark Leno <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/15840232?video=1553738956&#038;play=1\">appeared on CNBC to talk about cell phone radiation<\/a>. The cell phone industry group (CTIA) has been fighting point of purchase disclosure for some time now. &nbsp;Apparently the truth won&#8217;t set you free at your local Radio Shack.<\/p>\n<p>* The Federal government <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/07\/federal-government-blocks-edfu.html\">blocked the sale of EdFund<\/a>. So much for another budget gimmick.<\/p>\n<p>* Some of the gaming tribes are among the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/committe-backed-tribes-announces-intent-raise-unlimited-cash-71-4\">to use the <i>Citizens United<\/i> loopholes<\/a>. &nbsp;They used some of their cash to support Jeff Denham&#8217;s Congressional bid.<\/p>\n<p>* Arnold: Well&#8230;maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/29\/governor-state-budget-can-pass-term-ends\/\">we can pass a budget this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* The Bay Area Council <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cahsrblog.com\/2010\/07\/bay-area-council-slams-pcc\/\">slams a group of Peninsula cities<\/a> for obstructing the high speed rail project.<\/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-12225","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-3bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225","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=12225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}