{"id":9801,"date":"2009-08-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-08T00:08:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T00:08:40","slug":"august-7-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/08\/august-7-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"August 7 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some links for your weekend:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/08\/press-clips-why-is-npr-in-thrall-to-prince-gavin\/\">CalBuzz has some complaints<\/a> about why NPR chose to focus a 9 minute story about the California governor&#8217;s race on Gavin Newsom. &nbsp;They have an excellent point, where were the interviews of the other candidates?, And why did Garry South (seemingly) write the piece?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nothing like building up expectations. A group of about 600, the Pasadena Patriots, claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_13010391?source=rss\">they are going to flood Rep. Adam Schiff&#8217;s town hall panel next week<\/a> to complain about the &#8220;socialized medicine.&#8221; &nbsp;In other news, don&#8217;t let the Government take over my Medicare!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-fi-jobs8-2009aug08,0,5584063.story?track=rss\">unemployment rate went down<\/a>. &nbsp; California&#8217;s is still hovering around 11.5%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Brian Dennert has an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.venturacountystar.com\/dennert\/archives\/2009\/08\/thursday-night-6.html\">interview with AD-35 candidate Das Williams via blog comment at his site<\/a>. It&#8217;s an interesting read, and a cool use of the format.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_13009176?source=rss\">A good summary of the package being offered NUMMI<\/a> to keep their plant open in Fremont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some links for your weekend:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/08\/press-clips-why-is-npr-in-thrall-to-prince-gavin\/\">CalBuzz has some complaints<\/a> about why NPR chose to focus a 9 minute story about the California governor&#8217;s race on Gavin Newsom. &nbsp;They have an excellent point, where were the interviews of the other candidates?, And why did Garry South (seemingly) write the piece?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nothing like building up expectations. A group of about 600, the Pasadena Patriots, claims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgvtribune.com\/news\/ci_13010391?source=rss\">they are going to flood Rep. Adam Schiff&#8217;s town hall panel next week<\/a> to complain about the &#8220;socialized medicine.&#8221; &nbsp;In other news, don&#8217;t let the Government take over my Medicare!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-fi-jobs8-2009aug08,0,5584063.story?track=rss\">unemployment rate went down<\/a>. &nbsp; California&#8217;s is still hovering around 11.5%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Brian Dennert has an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.venturacountystar.com\/dennert\/archives\/2009\/08\/thursday-night-6.html\">interview with AD-35 candidate Das Williams via blog comment at his site<\/a>. It&#8217;s an interesting read, and a cool use of the format.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/oaklandtribune\/localnews\/ci_13009176?source=rss\">A good summary of the package being offered NUMMI<\/a> to keep their plant open in Fremont.<\/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-9801","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-2y5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801","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=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}