{"id":75,"date":"2008-05-22T06:46:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/big-news\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T23:15:59","slug":"big-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/big-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Big news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After having read Paul Rogers&#8217; article in yesterday&#8217;s <i>Mercury<\/i> about raises to the District Counsel and Clerk of the Board, Assemblymember Ira Ruskin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/localnewsheadlines\/ci_9343631\">pulled AB2122<\/a>, the amended District Act.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSaying he no longer wanted &#8220;to be associated with the board&#8221; of the Santa Clara Valley Water District, state Assemblyman Ira Ruskin on Wednesday pulled a bill aimed at changing the way the district elects its board members.<\/p>\n<p>Ruskin, D-Los Altos, said he was disappointed by the board&#8217;s unanimous vote Tuesday to boost the salaries of top staffers as board members voiced their opposition to placing a measure on the November ballot subjecting them to term limits.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nRuskin said Wednesday he still thought seven members was an &#8220;ideal number,&#8221; but decided to withdraw his bill because he felt the board was being insensitive by raising salaries during tough economic times, in addition to &#8220;prejudging&#8221; the term-limit issue.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, while it really does pale in comparison to that news, I&#8217;m proud that Scott Herhold has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/localnewsheadlines\/ci_9343574\">endorsed me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b>Best bet:<\/b> Foss. With a background in science and a commitment to curbing excessive spending, the Willow Glen resident offers the best chance for badly needed change at the Golden Spigot.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nAfter having read Paul Rogers&#8217; article in yesterday&#8217;s Mercury about raises to the District Counsel and Clerk of the Board,&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/big-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Big news&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}