{"id":9860,"date":"2009-08-18T19:06:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:06:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-18T19:06:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T19:06:05","slug":"the-sacbees-take-on-the-california-nn09-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/18\/the-sacbees-take-on-the-california-nn09-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"The SacBee&#8217;s take on the California NN09 Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/024735.html\">know what to think:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although Democrats enjoy strong majorities in both legislative houses and California&#8217;s congressional delegation &#8211; and hold all but two statewide offices &#8211; the left wing of the party is quite displeased, especially about cuts in health, welfare and education services to close a state budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>So what does the left want? A more aggressive legislative leadership and big changes in the state constitution, eliminating two-thirds votes for taxes and the budget are big on the agenda. Those and other goals were spelled out during a California-oriented panel discussion at the Netroots Nation convention in Pittsburgh, which featured several bloggers and policy wonks from the state.<\/p>\n<p>Dante Atkins posted a rough transcript of the discussion by Dave Daye [sic], Jean Ross, Robert Cruickshank and Kai Stinchcombe on the Calitics website, available here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I wonder why we&#8217;re displeased! &nbsp;Maybe, just maybe, it&#8217;s that <b>despite our overwhelming majorities, we can&#8217;t pass any sort of policy that reflects Democratic values?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just love how objective truth just flies out the window? &nbsp;Of course, the comments are even more hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I exactly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/024735.html\">know what to think:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although Democrats enjoy strong majorities in both legislative houses and California&#8217;s congressional delegation &#8211; and hold all but two statewide offices &#8211; the left wing of the party is quite displeased, especially about cuts in health, welfare and education services to close a state budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>So what does the left want? A more aggressive legislative leadership and big changes in the state constitution, eliminating two-thirds votes for taxes and the budget are big on the agenda. Those and other goals were spelled out during a California-oriented panel discussion at the Netroots Nation convention in Pittsburgh, which featured several bloggers and policy wonks from the state.<\/p>\n<p>Dante Atkins posted a rough transcript of the discussion by Dave Daye [sic], Jean Ross, Robert Cruickshank and Kai Stinchcombe on the Calitics website, available here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I wonder why we&#8217;re displeased! &nbsp;Maybe, just maybe, it&#8217;s that <b>despite our overwhelming majorities, we can&#8217;t pass any sort of policy that reflects Democratic values?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you just love how objective truth just flies out the window? &nbsp;Of course, the comments are even more hilarious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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":[5684,64],"class_list":["post-9860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-5684","tag-64"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2z2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}