{"id":308969,"date":"2010-02-11T19:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/confirm-maldonado-39334\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T00:15:03","slug":"confirm-maldonado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/308969","title":{"rendered":"Confirm Maldonado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div align=\"center\"><b>Confirm Maldonado<\/b><br \/>\nFebruary 11, 2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Editorial <\/p>\n<p>There is great frustration with the intransigence and obstructionism in Washington D.C.. The narrow view of partisan politics that would rather block than be constructive is an evil afflicting both the federal Congress and the State Legislature in Sacramento. The nomination of Abel Maldonado for the position of Lieutenant Governor should not fall victim to this bad behavior.<\/p>\n<p>\u0085<\/p>\n<p>The nomination should be confirmed by the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>\u0085<\/p>\n<p>We believe that Maldonado has repeatedly demonstrated independent judgment that has led him to vote for what he believes is best for California, rather than aligning his actions with the intransigent posturing of his fellow Republicans. The most recent example of this took place during the stalemate over the budget, where he broke partisan ranks to vote for a plan with a tax increase.<\/p>\n<p>Maldonado has proven throughout his career that he is a moderate, pragmatic Republican when it comes to making decisions: a different kind of lawmaker in an increasingly polarized party.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u0085 this is the ideal nomination to show a conciliatory, bipartisan spirit. It is the occasion for California Democrats to distance themselves from the destructive obstructionism of the federal Congress.<\/p>\n<p>(This article can be read at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impre.com\/printpage\/mainprintpage.html?publication=opinion\" ><font color=\"#0000ff\">www.impre.com\/printpage\/mainprintpage.html?publication=opinion<\/font><\/a>) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><b><font face=\"Arial\">Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/font><\/b><font face=\"Arial\"> <br \/>\nState Capitol Building<br \/>\nSacramento, CA 95814 <\/font><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirm Maldonado February 11, 2010 Editorial There is great frustration with the intransigence and obstructionism in Washington D.C.. The narrow view of partisan politics that would rather block than be constructive is an evil afflicting both the federal Congress and the State Legislature in Sacramento. The nomination of Abel Maldonado for the position of Lieutenant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}