{"id":12347,"date":"2010-08-18T04:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:27:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-18T04:27:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:27:20","slug":"august-17-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/18\/august-17-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"August 17 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re waiting for results on the Laird race, but in the mean time, Links:<\/p>\n<p>* For two candidates running for statewide office, you would think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalnewsline.com\/news\/228356-harris-says-calif.-ag-opponent-should-oppose-oil-initiative\">Steve Cooley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/the_swarm\/2010\/08\/carly-fiorina-doesnt-a-stand-o.html\">Carly Fiorina<\/a> would take a stand on Proposition 23, but no. &nbsp;The effort to repeal AB 32&#8217;s historic greenhouse gas pollution regulations apparently don&#8217;t rise to the level of importance to take a stand.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of Steve Cooley, <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/discord-3-complaints-intimidation-under-district-attorney-cooley-151\">California Watch exposed some punitive measures against his deputy DA&#8217;s union<\/a>. &nbsp;A recent lawsuit alleges that he punitively transfered deputy DAs who dared to organize, and even harassed an external media outfit working with the union. (Note: Brian does some work for Kamala Harris.)<\/p>\n<p>* Roger Niello is officially running to replace the late Sen. Dave Cox, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/niello-jumps-in-sd-1-race-with.html\">now received some favorable words from Cox&#8217;s widow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Republican SoS candidate Damon Dunn got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70309\">profile on the Sean Hannity show<\/a>. &nbsp;And according to the Hannity folks, he was endorsed by Willie Brown. &nbsp;Except, Willie himself called that idea &#8220;crazy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hell no..are you crazy?&#8221; he said. &#8220;I do training of folks with my Institute, and I have absolutely talked to him. But I would never be for Damon Dunn against Debra Bowen, who is one of my chief operatives. One of the things I recommended to Damon Dunn is that he not run against Debra Bowen.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70309#ixzz0wv8aNQaw\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re waiting for results on the Laird race, but in the mean time, Links:<\/p>\n<p>* For two candidates running for statewide office, you would think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legalnewsline.com\/news\/228356-harris-says-calif.-ag-opponent-should-oppose-oil-initiative\">Steve Cooley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/the_swarm\/2010\/08\/carly-fiorina-doesnt-a-stand-o.html\">Carly Fiorina<\/a> would take a stand on Proposition 23, but no. &nbsp;The effort to repeal AB 32&#8217;s historic greenhouse gas pollution regulations apparently don&#8217;t rise to the level of importance to take a stand.<\/p>\n<p>* Speaking of Steve Cooley, <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/discord-3-complaints-intimidation-under-district-attorney-cooley-151\">California Watch exposed some punitive measures against his deputy DA&#8217;s union<\/a>. &nbsp;A recent lawsuit alleges that he punitively transfered deputy DAs who dared to organize, and even harassed an external media outfit working with the union. (Note: Brian does some work for Kamala Harris.)<\/p>\n<p>* Roger Niello is officially running to replace the late Sen. Dave Cox, and has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/niello-jumps-in-sd-1-race-with.html\">now received some favorable words from Cox&#8217;s widow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Republican SoS candidate Damon Dunn got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70309\">profile on the Sean Hannity show<\/a>. &nbsp;And according to the Hannity folks, he was endorsed by Willie Brown. &nbsp;Except, Willie himself called that idea &#8220;crazy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hell no..are you crazy?&#8221; he said. &#8220;I do training of folks with my Institute, and I have absolutely talked to him. But I would never be for Damon Dunn against Debra Bowen, who is one of my chief operatives. One of the things I recommended to Damon Dunn is that he not run against Debra Bowen.&#8221;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70309#ixzz0wv8aNQaw\">SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\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-12347","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-3d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347","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=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}