Just to comment on some non-Prop 8 things (and a couple Prop. 8 things too) happening around the state:<\/p>\n
\u2022 I’m very excited that Assemblymember Noreen Evans, chair of the Budget Committee, has started a Budget Blog<\/a> to give her perspective on the process as it moves forward. Evans put together and narrated the video<\/a> detailing the nature of the crisis and slaying the myths about the budget. She’ll be a welcome addition to the ‘sphere.<\/p>\n \u2022 Welcome to California, where migrant workers toil to cover watermelons from the heat without any cover for themselves<\/a>. Cal-OSHA shut down eight factory farms in a week for disgusting practices like this.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rep. Doris Matsui has a guest post<\/a> up at the Center for American Progress’ The Wonk Room, talking about the importance of planting shade trees – not just for the shade (see above), but to save electricity and clean the air.<\/p>\n \u2022 Stories like these, about Meg Whitman<\/a> accepting over 100 exclusive IPO offers, making her millions, from a firm that she picked to handle eBay’s IPO, reinforce my belief that she will be toast in a high-profile political campaign, no matter how much of her personal fortune she deploys. Can you say Mitt Romney, Part II?<\/p>\n \u2022 John Aravosis<\/a> has an interesting reaction to the Prop. 8 ruling, noting that the upholding of the 18,000 settled same-sex marriages will eventually lead to a forced reckoning on the protection of all gay couples, married or barred from marrying, under the law. And he points to fascinating footnote #48<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n \u2022 I know you’ll be surprised by a national conservative publication getting the California crisis wrong, but Commentary Magazine<\/a> provides another example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just to comment on some non-Prop 8 things (and a couple Prop. 8 things too) happening around the state:<\/p>\n \u2022 I’m very excited that Assemblymember Noreen Evans, chair of the Budget Committee, has started a Budget Blog<\/a> to give her perspective on the process as it moves forward. Evans put together and narrated the video<\/a> detailing the nature of the crisis and slaying the myths about the budget. She’ll be a welcome addition to the ‘sphere.<\/p>\n \u2022 Welcome to California, where migrant workers toil to cover watermelons from the heat without any cover for themselves<\/a>. Cal-OSHA shut down eight factory farms in a week for disgusting practices like this.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rep. Doris Matsui has a guest post<\/a> up at the Center for American Progress’ The Wonk Room, talking about the importance of planting shade trees – not just for the shade (see above), but to save electricity and clean the air.<\/p>\n \u2022 Stories like these, about Meg Whitman<\/a> accepting over 100 exclusive IPO offers, making her millions, from a firm that she picked to handle eBay’s IPO, reinforce my belief that she will be toast in a high-profile political campaign, no matter how much of her personal fortune she deploys. Can you say Mitt Romney, Part II?<\/p>\n \u2022 John Aravosis<\/a> has an interesting reaction to the Prop. 8 ruling, noting that the upholding of the 18,000 settled same-sex marriages will eventually lead to a forced reckoning on the protection of all gay couples, married or barred from marrying, under the law. And he points to fascinating footnote #48<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n