{"id":8485,"date":"2009-04-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T01:29:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T01:29:31","slug":"wednesday-4809-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/09\/wednesday-4809-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 4\/8\/09 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/embed><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>A stroll through California politics today…<\/p>\n

\u2022 We had a post on the first radio commercials yesterday, but Arnold’s Budget Reform Now ad didn’t make the cut.  It talks about stabilization over a background newsy tone about cuts for senior citizen health care.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It does appear the Governor will use stimulus funds for education for their intended purpose<\/a>, to fund education, instead of filling the budget gap.  That’s the right move.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hmm, what’s this? A catfight<\/a> between Jerry Brown and Anna Nicole Smith’s Rasputin character, Howard K. Stern. Brown is involved in the prosecution of Stern, so I guess it’s not so surprising.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Some hard medicine from CalBuzz to John Garamendi<\/a> and his governor’s campaign. They go through the possibilities of where his votes go if he leaves the race for the CA-10 race, and end up with “it doesn’t matter.” Ouch.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The LA City Council was poised to approve higher water rates<\/a> for those who don’t conserve at least 15% in the midst of the drought today, but at the last minute the measure was temporarily scuttled<\/a> until the Council has time to study it.  I hope this will be combined with an intense education campaign, since those who don’t know a thing about the conservation initiative are highly unlikely to conserve.  At that point you’re just raising water rates.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laura Richardson, Barbara Lee, and Fidel Castro<\/a>.  Is there a group picture?  Hopefully this greases the wheels for continued engagement with Cuba and an end to the failed isolation policy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Another hurdle in bringing an NFL team back to LA has been cleared. Diamond Bar has settled its lawsuit<\/a> over a proposed stadium in City of Industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/embed><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/param><\/object>A stroll through California politics today…<\/p>\n

\u2022 We had a post on the first radio commercials yesterday, but Arnold’s Budget Reform Now ad didn’t make the cut.  It talks about stabilization over a background newsy tone about cuts for senior citizen health care.  Enjoy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 It does appear the Governor will use stimulus funds for education for their intended purpose<\/a>, to fund education, instead of filling the budget gap.  That’s the right move.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Hmm, what’s this? A catfight<\/a> between Jerry Brown and Anna Nicole Smith’s Rasputin character, Howard K. Stern. Brown is involved in the prosecution of Stern, so I guess it’s not so surprising.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Some hard medicine from CalBuzz to John Garamendi<\/a> and his governor’s campaign. They go through the possibilities of where his votes go if he leaves the race for the CA-10 race, and end up with “it doesn’t matter.” Ouch.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The LA City Council was poised to approve higher water rates<\/a> for those who don’t conserve at least 15% in the midst of the drought today, but at the last minute the measure was temporarily scuttled<\/a> until the Council has time to study it.  I hope this will be combined with an intense education campaign, since those who don’t know a thing about the conservation initiative are highly unlikely to conserve.  At that point you’re just raising water rates.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Laura Richardson, Barbara Lee, and Fidel Castro<\/a>.  Is there a group picture?  Hopefully this greases the wheels for continued engagement with Cuba and an end to the failed isolation policy.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Another hurdle in bringing an NFL team back to LA has been cleared. Diamond Bar has settled its lawsuit<\/a> over a proposed stadium in City of Industry.<\/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-8485","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-2cR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485","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=8485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}