{"id":3822,"date":"2010-02-16T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3822"},"modified":"2010-02-16T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T19:05:04","slug":"now-california-politicians-cant-even-agree-to-reject-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3822\/now-california-politicians-cant-even-agree-to-reject-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, California Politicians Can&#8217;t Even Agree to Reject Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State may now be the world\u2019s largest banana republic.\u00a0 After being approved by the state Senate, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s pick to be Lieutenant Governor <a href=\" http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/governor-back-from-sports-weekend-to-reappoint-maldonado.html \" target=\"_blank\">didn\u2019t receive enough votes in the state Assembly<\/a> to secure approval or rejection.\u00a0 The result spawned name calling, threats of constitutional litigation, and the possibility that Schwarzenegger would seat his nominee personally and dare legislators to oppose him.\u00a0 He has since backed down and will re-nominate his candidate, thus restarting the process.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, why not pistols at dawn?\u00a0 Anyone killed or unable to work thereafter wouldn\u2019t be replaced, thus thinning the cancerous governmental herd feasting on tax dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden State may now be the world\u2019s largest banana republic.\u00a0 After being approved by the state Senate, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s pick to be Lieutenant Governor didn\u2019t receive enough votes in the state Assembly to secure approval or rejection.\u00a0 The result spawned name calling, threats of constitutional litigation, and the possibility that Schwarzenegger would seat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[868,299,699],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arnold-schwar","tag-california","tag-governor-arnold-schwarzenegger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3826,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}