{"id":90,"date":"2002-02-04T14:09:30","date_gmt":"2002-02-04T21:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/02\/peyton-place-2002-the-california-legislature-\/"},"modified":"2002-02-04T14:09:30","modified_gmt":"2002-02-04T21:09:30","slug":"peyton-place-2002-the-california-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/04\/peyton-place-2002-the-california-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Peyton Place, 2002: The California Legislature &#8212;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/content\/politics\/story\/1579441p-1655686c.html\">Dan Walters: Legislature&#8217;s bipartisan gerrymander generates intraparty battles<\/a> this story on the dynastic and identity-politics battles for legislative seats in California. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 80th Assembly District, which sprawls over the vast Southern California desert, meanwhile, Gregory Pettis, a gay Cathedral City councilman, and a once-close friend, construction supervisor Joey Acuna Jr., are locked in what has become a bitter tussle. Pettis entered the race first and former Assemblywoman Denise Ducheny recruited Acuna because she considered the 80th to be a designated Latino district.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what term-limits does for you, and nothing more: a slew of rookie politicians beholden to the machines that finance them, clueless in the face of lobbyists. It was a bad idea, and it needs to be repealed.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dan Walters: Legislature&#8217;s bipartisan gerrymander generates intraparty battles this story on the dynastic and identity-politics battles for legislative seats in California. In the 80th Assembly District, which sprawls over the vast Southern California desert, meanwhile, Gregory Pettis, a gay Cathedral City councilman, and a once-close friend, construction supervisor Joey Acuna Jr., are locked in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/02\/04\/peyton-place-2002-the-california-legislature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peyton Place, 2002: The California Legislature &#8212;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}