{"id":660881,"date":"2010-02-10T18:03:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:03:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:28:33","slug":"today-on-political-millions-promised-for-jerry-brown-diane-watson-to-retire-schwarzeneggers-steroid-use-causes-olympic-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/660881","title":{"rendered":"Today on PolitiCal: Millions promised for Jerry Brown. Diane Watson to retire. Schwarzenegger&#8217;s steroid use causes Olympic buzz."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the stories we&#8217;re following today on <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/\">PolitiCal,<\/a> our blog on all things California politics:<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/rep-diane-watson-to-retire.html\">Diane Watson (D-Los Angeles) is set to announce her retirement,<\/a> with Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) waiting in the wings to replace her.<\/p>\n<p>Two new committees to be funded by labor unions and wealthy Democratic benefactors have <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/second-major-independent-committee-expected-to-boost-jerry-brown.html\">pledged millions<\/a> to boost Jerry Brown&#8217;s gubernatorial hopes. <\/p>\n<p>A Senate panel <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/senate-budget-panel-makes-first-cuts-of-2010.html\">began making budget cuts today<\/a> but saved the tough decisions for later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/schwarzenegger-steroid-use-generates-olympic-buzz.html\">past steroid use<\/a> has become an issue as he prepares to carry the Olympic torch in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest headlines from California politics. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CApolitics2010\">Follow PolitiCal on Twitter<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the stories we&#8217;re following today on PolitiCal, our blog on all things California politics: Rep. Diane Watson (D-Los Angeles) is set to announce her retirement, with Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) waiting in the wings to replace her. Two new committees to be funded by labor unions and wealthy Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2LVn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762379,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660881\/revisions\/762379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}