{"id":667799,"date":"2010-02-17T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877b14fe5970c"},"modified":"2010-02-17T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:51:10","slug":"from-political-karen-bass-off-and-running-gavin-newsom-get-closer-republican-primary-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667799","title":{"rendered":"From PolitiCal: Karen Bass off and running. Gavin Newsom get closer. Republican primary heats up."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the stories we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/\">following on PolitiCal<\/a>, our California politics blog:<\/p>\n<p>Backers of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/more-meg-whitman-backers-try-to-shove-steve-poizner-out-of-governors-race.html\">tried to shove Steve Poizner out of the governor&#8217;s race<\/a> Wednesday, while <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/sam-blakeslee-endorsement-steve-poizner-meg-whitman.html\">one former Poizner backer switched his support<\/a> to Whitman. <\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/gavin-newsom-inches-closer-to-lieutenant-governor-run.html\">Gavin Newsom inched closer to a run for lieutenant governor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/bass-says-shell-seek-watsons-congressional-seat-watson-backs-her.html\">Karen Bass made her run for Congress official<\/a> &#8212; and got an endorsement from Diane Watson. <\/p>\n<p>Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) promised <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2010\/02\/steinberg-no-more-allnighters.html\">no more late-night budget sessions. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the latest from California politics as it happens. <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/CApolitics2010\">Follow PolitiCal on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Anthony York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the stories we&#8217;re following on PolitiCal, our California politics blog: Backers of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman tried to shove Steve Poizner out of the governor&#8217;s race Wednesday, while one former Poizner backer switched his support to Whitman. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom inched closer to a run for lieutenant governor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-667799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NIX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667799","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=667799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}