{"id":14652,"date":"2012-10-29T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-10-29T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:30:57","slug":"calitics-ballot-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/29\/calitics-ballot-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Calitics Ballot Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Sorry for the late notice!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;d like to suggest the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/s\/download-the-progressive-voter-guide\">Courage Campaign&#8217;s Progressive Voter Guide<\/a>. But, here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m voting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes on 30, 34, 36, 37, 39, and 40<\/p>\n<p>No on 31, 32, 33, 35, and 38<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, that&#8217;s pretty close to the Courage Campaign&#8217;s progressive consensus. However, I differ on Prop 35, the &#8220;human trafficking&#8221; measure. Now, I think it is important to provide resources to fight human trafficking. However, the measure would have been better written and more thoroughly vetted by proceeding through the legislature. Legislation that can be passed through the legislature, like measures to fight human trafficking, should go through that vetting process.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody else have any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>Sorry for the late notice!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>by Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;d like to suggest the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/s\/download-the-progressive-voter-guide\">Courage Campaign&#8217;s Progressive Voter Guide<\/a>. But, here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m voting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes on 30, 34, 36, 37, 39, and 40<\/p>\n<p>No on 31, 32, 33, 35, and 38<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, that&#8217;s pretty close to the Courage Campaign&#8217;s progressive consensus. However, I differ on Prop 35, the &#8220;human trafficking&#8221; measure. Now, I think it is important to provide resources to fight human trafficking. However, the measure would have been better written and more thoroughly vetted by proceeding through the legislature. Legislation that can be passed through the legislature, like measures to fight human trafficking, should go through that vetting process.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody else have any thoughts?<\/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":[514],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-514"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3Ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652","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=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}