{"id":12577,"date":"2010-09-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-24T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T17:05:17","slug":"september-23-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/24\/september-23-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"September 23 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Meg thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/09\/22\/2088372\/whitman-fresno-looks-like-detroit.html\">Fresno is awful!<\/a> Worse than Detroit apparently. &nbsp;I&#8217;m sure when she&#8217;s running on Romney&#8217;s ticket, the people of Michigan are going to love that just as much as the people of Fresno liked it.<\/p>\n<p>* CalBuzz analyzes just how wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/09\/ap-story-was-dead-wrong-on-death-penalty\/\">AP&#8217;s story on Jerry Brown and the death penalty really was<\/a>. &nbsp;And by wrong, they mean totally out of the ballpark, nowhere near the truth, zero research wrong. &nbsp;AP edited and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gpgQEABQgbUuFS8XY4OJSgcXWtkgD9ICLHE00\">reissued the story<\/a>, but they owe not only Brown, but the truth and the people of California, an apology.<\/p>\n<p>* Stephen Colbert is going to testify on a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/comedian-colbert-ufw-push-migr.html\">UFW and Farm Bureau bill<\/a>. He interviewed Zoe Lofgren about the bill for last night&#8217;s show. &nbsp;For tonight, they&#8217;ll air a segment of Colbert working on a farm.<\/p>\n<p>* Jerry Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=72982\">challenges Meg Whitman to support climate change regulation<\/a>, and back off her pledge to suspend AB 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Meg thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/2010\/09\/22\/2088372\/whitman-fresno-looks-like-detroit.html\">Fresno is awful!<\/a> Worse than Detroit apparently. &nbsp;I&#8217;m sure when she&#8217;s running on Romney&#8217;s ticket, the people of Michigan are going to love that just as much as the people of Fresno liked it.<\/p>\n<p>* CalBuzz analyzes just how wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2010\/09\/ap-story-was-dead-wrong-on-death-penalty\/\">AP&#8217;s story on Jerry Brown and the death penalty really was<\/a>. &nbsp;And by wrong, they mean totally out of the ballpark, nowhere near the truth, zero research wrong. &nbsp;AP edited and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gpgQEABQgbUuFS8XY4OJSgcXWtkgD9ICLHE00\">reissued the story<\/a>, but they owe not only Brown, but the truth and the people of California, an apology.<\/p>\n<p>* Stephen Colbert is going to testify on a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/09\/comedian-colbert-ufw-push-migr.html\">UFW and Farm Bureau bill<\/a>. He interviewed Zoe Lofgren about the bill for last night&#8217;s show. &nbsp;For tonight, they&#8217;ll air a segment of Colbert working on a farm.<\/p>\n<p>* Jerry Brown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=72982\">challenges Meg Whitman to support climate change regulation<\/a>, and back off her pledge to suspend AB 32.<\/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-12577","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-3gR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577","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=12577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}