{"id":13117,"date":"2011-02-08T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T01:03:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-08T01:14:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T01:14:02","slug":"ca36-run-debra-bowen-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/08\/ca36-run-debra-bowen-run\/","title":{"rendered":"CA-36: Run, Debra Bowen, Run!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As was noted by the the Sacramento Bee’s Capital Alert<\/a> and the The Oakland Tribune’s Josh Richman<\/a>, legendary online communicator Debra Bowen took to twitter to say she was “giving serious thought”<\/a> to running in the special election for the 36th congressional district seat being vacated by Rep. Jane Harman.<\/p>\n

And netroots and progressive leaders immediately began signing a petition urging her to run<\/a>. Calitics readers will recognize many of the names, people like Brian Leubitz  and Robert Cruickshank and David Dayen and Dante Atkins and Matt Lockshin.<\/p>\n

Here are the benchmark numbers online:<\/p>\n

Twitter:<\/b>
\n
Janice Hahn: 635 Followers
\n
Debra Bowen: 3,693 Followers<\/p>\n

Facebook:<\/b>
\n
Janice Hahn: 916 “likes”
\n
Debra Bowen: 5,054 “likes” (or loves?)<\/p>\n

As Dayen pointed out<\/a>, about “progressive favorite” Debra Bowen:<\/p>\n

She would have the highest name recognition and the most passionate support if she entered the race, without question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. If you’re on twitter, you can sign the petition here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As was noted by the the Sacramento Bee’s Capital Alert<\/a> and the The Oakland Tribune’s Josh Richman<\/a>, legendary online communicator Debra Bowen took to twitter to say she was “giving serious thought”<\/a> to running in the special election for the 36th congressional district seat being vacated by Rep. Jane Harman.<\/p>\n

And netroots and progressive leaders immediately began signing a petition urging her to run<\/a>. Calitics readers will recognize many of the names, people like Brian Leubitz  and Robert Cruickshank and David Dayen and Dante Atkins and Matt Lockshin.<\/p>\n

Here are the benchmark numbers online:<\/p>\n

Twitter:<\/b>
\n
Janice Hahn: 635 Followers
\n
Debra Bowen: 3,693 Followers<\/p>\n

Facebook:<\/b>
\n
Janice Hahn: 916 “likes”
\n
Debra Bowen: 5,054 “likes” (or loves?)<\/p>\n

As Dayen pointed out<\/a>, about “progressive favorite” Debra Bowen:<\/p>\n

She would have the highest name recognition and the most passionate support if she entered the race, without question.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed. If you’re on twitter, you can sign the petition here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[172,9614,125,5822],"class_list":["post-13117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-172","tag-9614","tag-125","tag-5822"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}