{"id":9009,"date":"2009-05-30T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-30T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T02:31:28","slug":"may-29-weekend-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/30\/may-29-weekend-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"May 29 Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should be a great weekend in Fresno for Meet in the Middle for Equality<\/a>. Bring a hat and sunscreen, Fresno will be around 90 degrees<\/a>.  Anyway, to the links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 John McCain<\/a>: “Meg Whitman is the future of the GOP.” Wow, I can’t wait for the GOP ads featuring slave labor<\/a>, theft<\/a>, maquiladoras and inequality<\/a>. They will be fantastic!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Anthony Portantino’s AB 53<\/a>, which Brian has written about<\/a>, was shelved by the Appropriations Cmte<\/a> in the Senate.  Manuel Perez’s AB 1501<\/a>, a bill to restructure payment for boards and commissions, went down as well in similar fashion. <\/p>\n

\u2022 As for the rest, most bills which involved any amount of spending<\/a> were not moved, as we face the budget crisis.  That includes SB 810, by the way, the single-payer bill, estimated at $210 billion annually (which seems very exorbitant, who scored that?).<\/p>\n

\u2022 John Wildermuth lays out his take on the closing of the courts<\/a> for one day each month. Basically, he doesn’t buy the arguments about delaying justice, seeing it instead as a money thing. Well…he’s kind of right, everything is about money these days. However, he is a bit too quick to cast aside the argument about speedy justice…it is in the Constitution and all. While his argument is a bit shaky, it is good to see that John will continue to monitor state politics. Hey, John, if you ever want to write something for Calitics, let us know!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jeff Denham has the same “close San Quentin” op-ed every week<\/a> these days.  None of them bother to mention that cash collected by the sale of surplus property cannot be used to balance the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bonnie Lowenthal’s AB 1340<\/a> passed out of the Assembly<\/a>. The bill would make it easier for troops deployed overseas to vote by extending some deadlines.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oooh, video of Arnold making fun of Limbaugh<\/a>, which was in yesterday’s open thread. “Some people say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800 pound gorilla in the Republican party. But I think that’s mean-spirited to say that, because I think he’s down to 650 pounds.” Aww, snap!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Should be a great weekend in Fresno for Meet in the Middle for Equality<\/a>. Bring a hat and sunscreen, Fresno will be around 90 degrees<\/a>.  Anyway, to the links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 John McCain<\/a>: “Meg Whitman is the future of the GOP.” Wow, I can’t wait for the GOP ads featuring slave labor<\/a>, theft<\/a>, maquiladoras and inequality<\/a>. They will be fantastic!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Anthony Portantino’s AB 53<\/a>, which Brian has written about<\/a>, was shelved by the Appropriations Cmte<\/a> in the Senate.  Manuel Perez’s AB 1501<\/a>, a bill to restructure payment for boards and commissions, went down as well in similar fashion. <\/p>\n

\u2022 As for the rest, most bills which involved any amount of spending<\/a> were not moved, as we face the budget crisis.  That includes SB 810, by the way, the single-payer bill, estimated at $210 billion annually (which seems very exorbitant, who scored that?).<\/p>\n

\u2022 John Wildermuth lays out his take on the closing of the courts<\/a> for one day each month. Basically, he doesn’t buy the arguments about delaying justice, seeing it instead as a money thing. Well…he’s kind of right, everything is about money these days. However, he is a bit too quick to cast aside the argument about speedy justice…it is in the Constitution and all. While his argument is a bit shaky, it is good to see that John will continue to monitor state politics. Hey, John, if you ever want to write something for Calitics, let us know!<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jeff Denham has the same “close San Quentin” op-ed every week<\/a> these days.  None of them bother to mention that cash collected by the sale of surplus property cannot be used to balance the budget<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bonnie Lowenthal’s AB 1340<\/a> passed out of the Assembly<\/a>. The bill would make it easier for troops deployed overseas to vote by extending some deadlines.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Oooh, video of Arnold making fun of Limbaugh<\/a>, which was in yesterday’s open thread. “Some people say that Rush Limbaugh is the 800 pound gorilla in the Republican party. But I think that’s mean-spirited to say that, because I think he’s down to 650 pounds.” Aww, snap!  <\/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-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","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=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}