{"id":504,"date":"2006-06-07T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T15:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2006-06-07T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T15:53:09","slug":"a-good-start-for-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/06\/07\/a-good-start-for-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Start for 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0606\/calmap.gif\" class=\"left\" \/>Yesterday, California held it&#8217;s primary elections. Of interest to us, locally, was the race pitting our over-developing mayor and city council against challengers who ran on a &#8220;less-development and fix the infrastructure first&#8221; platform.  Damsel and I often noted the outrageous development and resulting load to the streets, sewers and other services in the city. Today, we have a new mayor and two new members on the council, displacing cronies of, and the soon-to-be former mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest to us, were two propositions on the statewide ballot; one under the guise of &#8220;Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation,&#8221; and the other would place 4-year old children in &#8220;free&#8221; pre-schools for a year. Both would unnecessarily fleece taxpayers for progressive\/socialist purposes. In other words, pump more money into failed educational systems and increase debt. Fortunately, both went down to defeat.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a national interest in the results of Congressional District 50 to the south of us; the district vacated by &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham when he admitted to bribes. Republican Brian Bilbray emerged victorious after a costly and contentious special election race against Democrat Francine Busby, a local school board member. That&#8217;s a good thing since the Democrats would have been given a net gain had this woman been elected. And who knows what momentum it may have stirred up for them.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, we were satisfied with most of the election results, and look forward to re-electing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joinarnold.com\/site\/c.owL2KgN3LxH\/b.1461587\/k.BF40\/HOME.htm\">Arnold<\/a> as governor and electing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommcclintock.net\/startup.html\">Tom McClintock<\/a> as lieutenant governor in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, California held it&#8217;s primary elections. Of interest to us, locally, was the race pitting our over-developing mayor and city council against challengers who ran on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-congress","category-whacko-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}