{"id":12516,"date":"2010-09-16T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-16T06:07:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T06:07:41","slug":"september-15-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/16\/september-15-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"September 15 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Meg Whitman dumped <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/meg-whitman-puts-in-another-15\">another $15 million into her campaign<\/a>, breaking the all-time record in self-funding for a campaign, previously set by Michael Bloomberg in his 2009 reelection. She plans to spend $150 million.<\/p>\n<p>* Meg also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/at-yelp-whitman-gets-mixed-rev.html#more\">got an earful at Yelp<\/a> while talking to their employees.<\/p>\n<p>* And oh yeah, she is telling <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/09\/whitman-says-penion-reform-calls-dont-apply-to-police-firefighters.html\">the cops what they want to hear<\/a>. Apparently, cops and firefighters aren&#8217;t subject to her pension plans&#8230;just because. Teachers? Yup.<\/p>\n<p>* Jerry Brown is investigating <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/09\/brown-to-subpoena-vernon-officials-in-salary-probe.html\">a legal consultant for taking big payouts from public coffers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links: &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Meg Whitman dumped <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/meg-whitman-puts-in-another-15\">another $15 million into her campaign<\/a>, breaking the all-time record in self-funding for a campaign, previously set by Michael Bloomberg in his 2009 reelection. She plans to spend $150 million.<\/p>\n<p>* Meg also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/at-yelp-whitman-gets-mixed-rev.html#more\">got an earful at Yelp<\/a> while talking to their employees.<\/p>\n<p>* And oh yeah, she is telling <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/09\/whitman-says-penion-reform-calls-dont-apply-to-police-firefighters.html\">the cops what they want to hear<\/a>. Apparently, cops and firefighters aren&#8217;t subject to her pension plans&#8230;just because. Teachers? Yup.<\/p>\n<p>* Jerry Brown is investigating <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/09\/brown-to-subpoena-vernon-officials-in-salary-probe.html\">a legal consultant for taking big payouts from public coffers<\/a>.<\/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-12516","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-3fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516","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=12516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}