{"id":9138,"date":"2009-06-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-17T03:45:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T03:45:38","slug":"june-16-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/17\/june-16-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"June 16 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian will be on KALW&#8217;s Your Call Radio again at 11 AM to talk budget. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/9138\/june-16-open-thread\">Listen live or grab the podcast here<\/a>.Links!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/californiascapitol.com\/blog\/?p=403\">Greg Lucas has a good story on the &#8220;Tax Commission&#8221;<\/a>. Apparently the big plan is to RAISE taxes on people earning less than $100,000 and decrease taxes on people earning more than $100,000 by imposing a flat 6% income tax. That is freaking insane, immoral, and just plain wrong. Simply put, the idea is a non-starter. &nbsp;If this commission had any courage whatsoever, they would simply say what no Republican dares to say, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/15\/AR2009061503249_2.html\">Washington Post<\/a> did today: Fix Prop 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=41821\">Jerry Brown sent out a very campaign-y email<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/1951744.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">denies that he asked President Obama to fire<\/a> a federal inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 George Tsakopolous, noted developer, Phil Angelides supporter, and patriach of the Tsakopolous clan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/1950922.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">died at the age of<\/a> 81.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arnold <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2009\/06\/16\/did-dems-promise-no-more-tax-hikes\/\">seems to think he had a deal with the legislative Dems<\/a> not to raise taxes again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian will be on KALW&#8217;s Your Call Radio again at 11 AM to talk budget. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calitics.com\/diary\/9138\/june-16-open-thread\">Listen live or grab the podcast here<\/a>.Links!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/californiascapitol.com\/blog\/?p=403\">Greg Lucas has a good story on the &#8220;Tax Commission&#8221;<\/a>. Apparently the big plan is to RAISE taxes on people earning less than $100,000 and decrease taxes on people earning more than $100,000 by imposing a flat 6% income tax. That is freaking insane, immoral, and just plain wrong. Simply put, the idea is a non-starter. &nbsp;If this commission had any courage whatsoever, they would simply say what no Republican dares to say, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/15\/AR2009061503249_2.html\">Washington Post<\/a> did today: Fix Prop 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?blogid=14&#038;entry_id=41821\">Jerry Brown sent out a very campaign-y email<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/1951744.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">denies that he asked President Obama to fire<\/a> a federal inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 George Tsakopolous, noted developer, Phil Angelides supporter, and patriach of the Tsakopolous clan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/1950922.html?mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">died at the age of<\/a> 81.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Arnold <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/capitalnotes\/2009\/06\/16\/did-dems-promise-no-more-tax-hikes\/\">seems to think he had a deal with the legislative Dems<\/a> not to raise taxes again.<\/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-9138","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-2no","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","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=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}