{"id":12382,"date":"2010-08-25T02:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-25T02:16:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T02:16:24","slug":"90-years-how-quickly-meg-forgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/25\/90-years-how-quickly-meg-forgets\/","title":{"rendered":"90 Years, How Quickly Meg Forgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"192\" align=right><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UATouX2njgM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object>Hey do you vote? &nbsp;Well, if you are reading this, the answer is probably yes. &nbsp;And you would assume that pretty much anybody who was really interested in politics would have done so for pretty much every election. &nbsp;Not so with Meg Whitman. &nbsp;She&#8217;s less interested in such trivial matters when she can go ahead and just plunk another $104 million into the game. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, some really good people fought like hell to give her that right to vote that she has chosen to cast away. &nbsp;So, a few groups have banded together to remind her of said fight, on the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whitman&#8217;s spotty voting record, of course, has been an issue in the gubernatorial campaign, and the candidate herself has called it &#8220;atrocious.&#8221; But the California Nurses Association, the Courage Campaign &nbsp;and a host of labor groups intend to remind voters again, insisting they&#8217;ll deliver the largest and possibly most colorful anti-Whitman rally ever on the 90th anniversary of the day the 19th amendment was signed into law. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The 4 p.m. rally near the Capitol steps will include folks in period costumes, historical characters, newsboys and Elizabth Jenkins-Sahlin, the great great grandaughter of the women&#8217;s rights pionner Elizabeth Cady Stanton,says CNA spokesman Chuck Idelson. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70771#ixzz0xZRjdsrV\">SFGate<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should be fun for the whole family, don your best bonnet if you are in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"320\" height=\"192\" align=right><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UATouX2njgM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UATouX2njgM&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"320\" height=\"192\" align=right><\/embed><\/object>Hey do you vote? &nbsp;Well, if you are reading this, the answer is probably yes. &nbsp;And you would assume that pretty much anybody who was really interested in politics would have done so for pretty much every election. &nbsp;Not so with Meg Whitman. &nbsp;She&#8217;s less interested in such trivial matters when she can go ahead and just plunk another $104 million into the game. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But, some really good people fought like hell to give her that right to vote that she has chosen to cast away. &nbsp;So, a few groups have banded together to remind her of said fight, on the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whitman&#8217;s spotty voting record, of course, has been an issue in the gubernatorial campaign, and the candidate herself has called it &#8220;atrocious.&#8221; But the California Nurses Association, the Courage Campaign &nbsp;and a host of labor groups intend to remind voters again, insisting they&#8217;ll deliver the largest and possibly most colorful anti-Whitman rally ever on the 90th anniversary of the day the 19th amendment was signed into law. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>The 4 p.m. rally near the Capitol steps will include folks in period costumes, historical characters, newsboys and Elizabth Jenkins-Sahlin, the great great grandaughter of the women&#8217;s rights pionner Elizabeth Cady Stanton,says CNA spokesman Chuck Idelson. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70771#ixzz0xZRjdsrV\">SFGate<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Should be fun for the whole family, don your best bonnet if you are in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[415,4467,136],"class_list":["post-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467","tag-136"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3dI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}