{"id":406054,"date":"2010-03-08T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a916ef77970b"},"modified":"2010-03-08T18:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:57:55","slug":"today-on-political-roy-ashburn-comes-out-analyst-says-ok-to-oil-drilling-corporate-tax-fight-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406054","title":{"rendered":"Today on PolitiCal: Roy Ashburn comes out. Analyst says OK to oil drilling. Corporate tax fight heats up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the stories we&#8217;re following today on PolitiCal:<\/p>\n<p>State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/a-republican-state-senator-from-bakersfield-came-out-of-the-closet-in-a-radio-interview-monday-morning-in-the-wake-of-a-repor.html\">confirmed rumors that he was gay<\/a> in the wake of a drunk driving arrest last week. Ashburn said &quot;through my own actions, I made my personal life public.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers passed a bill that would <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/state-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-unemployment-for-local-elected-officials.html\">eliminate the ability of elected officials to receive unemployment benefits<\/a> once they leave office. <\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s nonpartisan budget analyst has endorsed a plan by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/state-should-restart-offshore-oil-drilling-analyst-says.html\">resume oil drilling off the coast of California. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teachers unions coughed up another $500,000 to place a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/03\/teachers-union-gives-another-500000-to-roll-back-corporate-tax-cuts.html\">rollback of corporate tax breaks<\/a> on the November ballot. <\/p>\n<p>Get the very latest on California politics. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/capolitics2010\">Follow PolitiCal on Twitter.<\/a><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the stories we&#8217;re following today on PolitiCal: State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Bakersfield) confirmed rumors that he was gay in the wake of a drunk driving arrest last week. Ashburn said &quot;through my own actions, I made my personal life public.&quot; State lawmakers passed a bill that would eliminate the ability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5550,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406054","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\/5550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}