{"id":9987,"date":"2009-09-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-03T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T07:58:34","slug":"september-2-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/03\/september-2-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=y8pbzg1dc4hst8&#038;xid=y8pbiylgjvtp2m&#038;done=.y8pbzg1dc50st8\">LA Stadium proposal<\/a> is bouncing around the Legislature. Apparently the developer is trying to get around environmental and other complaints from the Town of Walnut.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/2009\/09\/assembly_passes_5.html\">passed a resolution<\/a> calling on Barack Obama and Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. &nbsp;It drew 47 out of 49 Democratic votes, too (Anthony Portantino, Mike Davis and Anna Caballero abstained or were absent from the vote; independent Juan Arambula voted yes). &nbsp;On this issue, California Democrats stood basically firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Burton tossed out the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/025141.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">Richard Riordan<\/a> to replace Lt. Gov. John Garamendi. He&#8217;d likely cruise through the leg, especially if he says he doesn&#8217;t plan on running again. I&#8217;m not sure if I would want the job if I were him though.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 You may remember Howard Kaloogian, he was the Republican running for the Duke-Stir&#8217;s seat in CA-50 who in 2006 claimed he had been to Iraq and saw everything was fine, and as photographic proof <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2006\/03\/kaloogian_im_sorry_photo_was_a.php\">passed off pictures of Istanbul<\/a>, Turkey. &nbsp;Not that you were the least bit interested in what he&#8217;s doing now, but he and other California GoOPers are <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/09\/legendary_gop_bamboozler_hitches_wagon_to_tea_part.php\">funding the Tea Party Express tour<\/a>. &nbsp;That makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This supposed &#8220;recall&#8221; of Alyson Huber has now <a href=\"http:\/\/bayneweb.com\/blog\/archives\/4957\">stalled twice<\/a>. &nbsp;Even should Democrats fail, we can always count on the fact that the Yacht Party is filled to bursting with incompetents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More news from the right-wing freak-out: a bunch of gun nuts <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/sep\/01\/bn01guns-open-carry\/?northcounty\">took their firearms to an Escondido mall<\/A> and scared the crap out of everybody. &nbsp;For freedom!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Another indication that California Democrats aren&#8217;t quite pleased with the field of candidates for the governor gig: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/025140.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">Steve Westly is once again denying that he is going to enter the race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jerry Brown&#8217;s plans, you ask? &nbsp;He hasn&#8217;t technically entered the race, so he&#8217;s going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article6806426.ece\">retreat to a monastery<\/a> for a few weeks to &#8220;consider my options.&#8221; &nbsp;Um.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 eMeg made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/09\/stop-the-presses-emeg-speaks-sort-of\/\">rare audible appearance<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=y8pbzg1dc4hst8&#038;xid=y8pbiylgjvtp2m&#038;done=.y8pbzg1dc50st8\">LA Stadium proposal<\/a> is bouncing around the Legislature. Apparently the developer is trying to get around environmental and other complaints from the Town of Walnut.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiaprogressreport.com\/2009\/09\/assembly_passes_5.html\">passed a resolution<\/a> calling on Barack Obama and Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. &nbsp;It drew 47 out of 49 Democratic votes, too (Anthony Portantino, Mike Davis and Anna Caballero abstained or were absent from the vote; independent Juan Arambula voted yes). &nbsp;On this issue, California Democrats stood basically firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Burton tossed out the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/025141.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">Richard Riordan<\/a> to replace Lt. Gov. John Garamendi. He&#8217;d likely cruise through the leg, especially if he says he doesn&#8217;t plan on running again. I&#8217;m not sure if I would want the job if I were him though.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 You may remember Howard Kaloogian, he was the Republican running for the Duke-Stir&#8217;s seat in CA-50 who in 2006 claimed he had been to Iraq and saw everything was fine, and as photographic proof <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2006\/03\/kaloogian_im_sorry_photo_was_a.php\">passed off pictures of Istanbul<\/a>, Turkey. &nbsp;Not that you were the least bit interested in what he&#8217;s doing now, but he and other California GoOPers are <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/09\/legendary_gop_bamboozler_hitches_wagon_to_tea_part.php\">funding the Tea Party Express tour<\/a>. &nbsp;That makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This supposed &#8220;recall&#8221; of Alyson Huber has now <a href=\"http:\/\/bayneweb.com\/blog\/archives\/4957\">stalled twice<\/a>. &nbsp;Even should Democrats fail, we can always count on the fact that the Yacht Party is filled to bursting with incompetents.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More news from the right-wing freak-out: a bunch of gun nuts <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/sep\/01\/bn01guns-open-carry\/?northcounty\">took their firearms to an Escondido mall<\/A> and scared the crap out of everybody. &nbsp;For freedom!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Another indication that California Democrats aren&#8217;t quite pleased with the field of candidates for the governor gig: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/025140.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20Alert\">Steve Westly is once again denying that he is going to enter the race<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jerry Brown&#8217;s plans, you ask? &nbsp;He hasn&#8217;t technically entered the race, so he&#8217;s going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article6806426.ece\">retreat to a monastery<\/a> for a few weeks to &#8220;consider my options.&#8221; &nbsp;Um.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 eMeg made a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/09\/stop-the-presses-emeg-speaks-sort-of\/\">rare audible appearance<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/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-9987","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-2B5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987","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=9987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}