• $500
  billion amount the state owes in
  pensions, according to a Stanford
  University study
• 2,000%
  increase the amount California’s
  pension burden increased between 1999 and 2009 source

• » Why is this bad for California? David Crane of the L.A. Times notes that this pension burden is what’s really holding the state back. Because they have this huge albatross on their back, they’re forced to cut other, arguably more important things, like education.

• $46M the amount the former eBay chairwoman has spent on her California gubernatorial campaign
• 40% the size of the lead she has over her GOP primary challenger Steve “Steamrolled” Poizner
• seven the number of months she has before the election; she leads Jerry Brown, too source

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• “Strong earthquake in the Los Angeles area”: Talk about a phrase we could go without hearing. While the quake was powerful, it definitely wasn’t an end-of-the-world situation by any stretch. Mediaite has the initial reports from CNN, which they totally got the jump on over MSNBC and Fox News, including the use of Twitter. source

• one Encourage students to take summer classes and graduate in three years.
• two Double the number of out-of-state students in the university system to 10 percent.
• three Charge more for the most popular campuses – UCLA and UC Berkeley particularly.
• four Increase online classes offerings so people don’t have to look at each other. source

• two number of women stung in the freak incident
• 100 number of stings each had; they were covered head to toe source

• 46% support the former eBay chief executive in the governor race
• 43% support the current California Attorney General
• 11% support the pollster not asking so many questions source

• YES his parents said something to California police source