{"id":14184,"date":"2012-02-10T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-10T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:24:27","slug":"cdp-convention-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/10\/cdp-convention-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CDP Convention Begins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>New platform and gearing up for the Presidential election is on tap in San Diego<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to head down to San Diego for the annual installment of CDP convention madness. Or as I like to call it, a weekend with some fellow political nerds.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve probably <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/14174\/campaign-contributions-raise-troubling-questions-for-speaker-john-perez-and-sacramento-democrats\">read on these pages<\/a>, there are some issues of party endorsements going on. &nbsp;AD-50 (Bloom, Butler, Osborn) has been a very competitive fight, with legislators moving delegates into the district and accusations of club packing. And the bruising battle between the &#8220;-ermans&#8221;, Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, in CD-30 has meant that I&#8217;ve received more mail for a CDP convention than I ever thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable events include the ratification of the state party platform. &nbsp;The platform committee will be meeting all day today to nail down the wording, and you can drop on by to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be around all weekend, come find me and say hi! &nbsp;I&#8217;ll be doing most of my updating 140 characters at a time, so follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brianleubitz\">my twitter account<\/a> to get the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>New platform and gearing up for the Presidential election is on tap in San Diego<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about to head down to San Diego for the annual installment of CDP convention madness. Or as I like to call it, a weekend with some fellow political nerds.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ve probably <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/14174\/campaign-contributions-raise-troubling-questions-for-speaker-john-perez-and-sacramento-democrats\">read on these pages<\/a>, there are some issues of party endorsements going on. &nbsp;AD-50 (Bloom, Butler, Osborn) has been a very competitive fight, with legislators moving delegates into the district and accusations of club packing. And the bruising battle between the &#8220;-ermans&#8221;, Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, in CD-30 has meant that I&#8217;ve received more mail for a CDP convention than I ever thought possible.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable events include the ratification of the state party platform. &nbsp;The platform committee will be meeting all day today to nail down the wording, and you can drop on by to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be around all weekend, come find me and say hi! &nbsp;I&#8217;ll be doing most of my updating 140 characters at a time, so follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/brianleubitz\">my twitter account<\/a> to get the latest updates.<\/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":[921],"class_list":["post-14184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-921"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3GM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184","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=14184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}