It’s been a busy day around the state. Here are a few links:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Arnold Schwarzenegger thought better of eliminating survivors’ benefits for police and firefighters who died in the line of duty<\/a>, calling it a “terrible screw-up.” You know, one thing you can’t pin on Arnold, he doesn’t really mind admitting that he was wrong. Trouble is that he’s wrong a lot more than he’s right.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont) thinks President Obama’s faith based initiatives might be unconstitutional<\/a>. There certainly is a strong argument that the state shouldn’t be dealing so closely with religious institutions.(h\/t Carla Marinucci<\/a>) Incidentally, what is up with Politico and their crazy Obama headlines<\/a>?<\/p>\n \u2022 Because Curren Price is moving to the Senate, here are the changing Assembly Committee rosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 A terrific column on the misry created by the budget and economic crisis,<\/a> from Peter Shrag.<\/p>\n \u2022 Arnold wants you to tell him where the government waste is<\/a>. Terrific, isn’t this what that whole California Performance Review<\/a> was for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a busy day around the state. Here are a few links:<\/p>\n \u2022 Arnold Schwarzenegger thought better of eliminating survivors’ benefits for police and firefighters who died in the line of duty<\/a>, calling it a “terrible screw-up.” You know, one thing you can’t pin on Arnold, he doesn’t really mind admitting that he was wrong. Trouble is that he’s wrong a lot more than he’s right.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont) thinks President Obama’s faith based initiatives might be unconstitutional<\/a>. There certainly is a strong argument that the state shouldn’t be dealing so closely with religious institutions.(h\/t Carla Marinucci<\/a>) Incidentally, what is up with Politico and their crazy Obama headlines<\/a>?<\/p>\n \u2022 Because Curren Price is moving to the Senate, here are the changing Assembly Committee rosters<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 A terrific column on the misry created by the budget and economic crisis,<\/a> from Peter Shrag.<\/p>\n \u2022 Arnold wants you to tell him where the government waste is<\/a>. Terrific, isn’t this what that whole California Performance Review<\/a> was for?<\/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-9101","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-2mN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101","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=9101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}