{"id":8720,"date":"2009-05-01T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-01T02:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T02:59:42","slug":"april-30-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/april-30-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"April 30 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And off we go:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Interestingly enough, despite all the economic troubles, Dan Walters points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/021952.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">California&#8217;s population is still increasing<\/a>. The best estimate of population is now 38,293,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cleve Jones and Robert Haaland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebar.com\/openforum\/opforum.php?sec=guest_op\">explain why LGBTs should support labor<\/a> and the Employee Free Choice Act. &nbsp;We need more progressive coalitions like this. &nbsp;And Dianne Feinstein, take note of who you&#8217;re pissing off here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Following up on <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8717\/prejean-the-plumber\">Miss California Carrie Prejean&#8217;s<\/a> new gig as a spokesmodel for anti-gay marriage forces, Digby <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/time-travel-by-digby-so-our-lovely-miss.html\">has a great history lesson<\/a> on fellow beauty pageant contestant Anita Bryant and what happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/04\/30\/BA8V17C8PA.DTL&#038;feed=rss.news\">bomb scare at the Capitol today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oooh, an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/calpensions.com\/2009\/04\/30\/labor-tangles-in-race-for-calpers-seat\/\">campaign for a seat on the CalPERS board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0The Governor is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/021887.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">finally pushing<\/a> for a bill offering education breaks to state National Guard members. &nbsp;We&#8217;re the only state in the union that doesn&#8217;t do this. &nbsp;Schwarzenegger also has a crush on Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 TPMMuckraker&#8217;s Zachary Roth has been doing great work on the Jane Harman story, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/04\/evidence_growing_that_goss_camp_is_behind_harman_leak.php\">delves further<\/a> into the evidence that former CIA Director Porter Goss was behind this recent leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And off we go:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Interestingly enough, despite all the economic troubles, Dan Walters points out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/021952.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">California&#8217;s population is still increasing<\/a>. The best estimate of population is now 38,293,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Cleve Jones and Robert Haaland <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebar.com\/openforum\/opforum.php?sec=guest_op\">explain why LGBTs should support labor<\/a> and the Employee Free Choice Act. &nbsp;We need more progressive coalitions like this. &nbsp;And Dianne Feinstein, take note of who you&#8217;re pissing off here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Following up on <a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/8717\/prejean-the-plumber\">Miss California Carrie Prejean&#8217;s<\/a> new gig as a spokesmodel for anti-gay marriage forces, Digby <a href=\"http:\/\/digbysblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/time-travel-by-digby-so-our-lovely-miss.html\">has a great history lesson<\/a> on fellow beauty pageant contestant Anita Bryant and what happened to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/04\/30\/BA8V17C8PA.DTL&#038;feed=rss.news\">bomb scare at the Capitol today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Oooh, an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/calpensions.com\/2009\/04\/30\/labor-tangles-in-race-for-calpers-seat\/\">campaign for a seat on the CalPERS board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0The Governor is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/021887.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">finally pushing<\/a> for a bill offering education breaks to state National Guard members. &nbsp;We&#8217;re the only state in the union that doesn&#8217;t do this. &nbsp;Schwarzenegger also has a crush on Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 TPMMuckraker&#8217;s Zachary Roth has been doing great work on the Jane Harman story, and he <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/04\/evidence_growing_that_goss_camp_is_behind_harman_leak.php\">delves further<\/a> into the evidence that former CIA Director Porter Goss was behind this recent leak.<\/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-8720","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-2gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720","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=8720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}