{"id":8395,"date":"2009-03-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-27T01:31:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T01:31:22","slug":"thursday-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/27\/thursday-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your links, sir and madam. &nbsp;I hope you enjoy them, if you need anything else, just holler:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Appellate lawyer Tracy Emblem <a href=\"http:\/\/bayneweb.com\/blog\/archives\/3674\">will challenge Brian Bilbray<\/a> in CA-50. &nbsp;My feeling is that CA-50 is a tease of a district where Democratic candidates always peter out at 45-46%, but Obama did beat McCain there, so theoretically a better candidate could yield results. &nbsp;Emblem is focusing on, and this will floor you, health care, infrastructure and clean energy! &nbsp;She also is calling for bankruptcy courts to be able to cram down loan modifications on the lenders. &nbsp;Hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to bring you more from Tracy Emblem in the coming months. &nbsp;The article announcing her candidacy is <a href=\"http:\/\/eastcountymagazine.org\/?q=node\/782\">here<\/a> and her website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracyemblemforcongress.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Yacht Party members often bleat about all the surplus property owned by the state that could be the magic bullet to get us out of the budget mess. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ve checked the recent property prices or not, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2008-502.pdf\">new report<\/a> by the California State Auditor shows that substantial barriers exist to selling this land. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2009\/03\/26\/when-is-surplus-property-surplus\/\">John Myers<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Have I mentioned lately that Darrell Issa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0309\/Regulating_the_First_Lady.html#comments\">is a dick<\/a>? &nbsp;His latest move is to &#8220;regulate the first lady,&#8221; which has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with embarrassing the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Maria Shriver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/1729609.html?mi_rss=State%2520Politics\">was on Capitol Hill<\/a> yesterday, pushing for increases in Alzheimer&#8217;s research. &nbsp;The hearing was the result of a bipartisan study into the disease and the exorbitant cost of treating it currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 That Fran Pavley is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=xv0m6nlm67pv4h\">back on greenhouse gas patrol<\/a> working to reduce emissions should be a breath of fresh air, literally, for every Californian. &nbsp;She&#8217;s currently digging into how the state will use the money likely to be gained by auctioning carbon credits under AB 32.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your links, sir and madam. &nbsp;I hope you enjoy them, if you need anything else, just holler:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Appellate lawyer Tracy Emblem <a href=\"http:\/\/bayneweb.com\/blog\/archives\/3674\">will challenge Brian Bilbray<\/a> in CA-50. &nbsp;My feeling is that CA-50 is a tease of a district where Democratic candidates always peter out at 45-46%, but Obama did beat McCain there, so theoretically a better candidate could yield results. &nbsp;Emblem is focusing on, and this will floor you, health care, infrastructure and clean energy! &nbsp;She also is calling for bankruptcy courts to be able to cram down loan modifications on the lenders. &nbsp;Hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to bring you more from Tracy Emblem in the coming months. &nbsp;The article announcing her candidacy is <a href=\"http:\/\/eastcountymagazine.org\/?q=node\/782\">here<\/a> and her website is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracyemblemforcongress.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Yacht Party members often bleat about all the surplus property owned by the state that could be the magic bullet to get us out of the budget mess. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;ve checked the recent property prices or not, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsa.ca.gov\/pdfs\/reports\/2008-502.pdf\">new report<\/a> by the California State Auditor shows that substantial barriers exist to selling this land. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2009\/03\/26\/when-is-surplus-property-surplus\/\">John Myers<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Have I mentioned lately that Darrell Issa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0309\/Regulating_the_First_Lady.html#comments\">is a dick<\/a>? &nbsp;His latest move is to &#8220;regulate the first lady,&#8221; which has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with embarrassing the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Maria Shriver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/politics\/story\/1729609.html?mi_rss=State%2520Politics\">was on Capitol Hill<\/a> yesterday, pushing for increases in Alzheimer&#8217;s research. &nbsp;The hearing was the result of a bipartisan study into the disease and the exorbitant cost of treating it currently.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 That Fran Pavley is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=xv0m6nlm67pv4h\">back on greenhouse gas patrol<\/a> working to reduce emissions should be a breath of fresh air, literally, for every Californian. &nbsp;She&#8217;s currently digging into how the state will use the money likely to be gained by auctioning carbon credits under 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":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2bp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","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=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}