{"id":9226,"date":"2009-06-27T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-27T01:20:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T01:20:16","slug":"final-june-weekend-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/27\/final-june-weekend-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Final June Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/object>To all my SF area compatriots, happy Pride weekend.  If you are up in SF, think about coming to the Alice Pride Breakfast<\/a> on Sunday morning before the parade. Many of the local and statewide politicos will be in attendance, including both Democratic candidates for Governor. Get your tickets here<\/a> or at the door on Sunday morning. Now to the links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 {From Brian} Another event you might be interested in: a SF fundraiser for Anthony Woods featuring Lt. Dan Choi<\/a>. Should be a good time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 (From Dante) My brother David–a fellow author here on Calitics–hosts a weekly half-hour progressive radio show every Friday at 11:00am in Ventura on KVTA-1520, together with Brian Leshon, Communications Committee chair of the Ventura County Democratic Party.  I was an in-studio guest this week as we talked about Sen. Tony Strickland, local tax measures and what the May 19 special really meant.  check out the podcast here<\/a>, and be sure to return every Friday afternoon for future shows.  It feels good to be bringing a progressive message to Ventura County.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Senate GOP Caucus rejected<\/a> Arnold’s surcharge to fund CalFire as well as a Vehicle fee to fund parks.  At this point, I’m not sure if they know what that green button does.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ellen Tauscher was confirmed as Undersecretary for the Dept. of State<\/a>.  Gov. Schwarzenegger now has to select a special election date, which, I believe has to be within 90 days from today. I’ll try to get confirmation on that last part.  Her final speech in the House in the video to the right.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The ACLU and the National Center for Lesbian Rights hopped on board the federal challenge to Prop 8<\/a>. In filings to the court, they said they supported the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Deposed Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines is officially running for Insurance Commissioner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object>To all my SF area compatriots, happy Pride weekend.  If you are up in SF, think about coming to the Alice Pride Breakfast<\/a> on Sunday morning before the parade. Many of the local and statewide politicos will be in attendance, including both Democratic candidates for Governor. Get your tickets here<\/a> or at the door on Sunday morning. Now to the links:<\/p>\n

\u2022 {From Brian} Another event you might be interested in: a SF fundraiser for Anthony Woods featuring Lt. Dan Choi<\/a>. Should be a good time.<\/p>\n

\u2022 (From Dante) My brother David–a fellow author here on Calitics–hosts a weekly half-hour progressive radio show every Friday at 11:00am in Ventura on KVTA-1520, together with Brian Leshon, Communications Committee chair of the Ventura County Democratic Party.  I was an in-studio guest this week as we talked about Sen. Tony Strickland, local tax measures and what the May 19 special really meant.  check out the podcast here<\/a>, and be sure to return every Friday afternoon for future shows.  It feels good to be bringing a progressive message to Ventura County.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Senate GOP Caucus rejected<\/a> Arnold’s surcharge to fund CalFire as well as a Vehicle fee to fund parks.  At this point, I’m not sure if they know what that green button does.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ellen Tauscher was confirmed as Undersecretary for the Dept. of State<\/a>.  Gov. Schwarzenegger now has to select a special election date, which, I believe has to be within 90 days from today. I’ll try to get confirmation on that last part.  Her final speech in the House in the video to the right.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The ACLU and the National Center for Lesbian Rights hopped on board the federal challenge to Prop 8<\/a>. In filings to the court, they said they supported the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Deposed Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines is officially running for Insurance Commissioner<\/a>.<\/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-9226","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-2oO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226","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=9226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}