Friday, March 05, 2010
ToDaZeD California *facepalm*
so proud… so confident...
David Miller, [Sen. Pat Wiggins’ [Dumbass] Santa Rosa] press aide, declined comment Thursday, but told the Sacramento Bee that it’s not “a secret that she (Wiggins) has a medical condition for which she’s being treated.”
Miller added that the condition “does not affect her ability to do her job as a senator. But it can make her irritable, and when she’s irritable, she lets it be known.”
A California state senator [Sen. Roy Ashburn [R] Bakersfield] who reportedly has voted against every gay rights measure since he took office eight years ago was charged with driving under the influence [0.14] on Wednesday, reportedly after leaving a gay nightclub [Faces] in Sacramento.
Last summer an editor heard that a Sacramento publication with a gay audience might “out” state Sen. Roy Ashburn as being gay.
So I called Ashburn and asked him flat-out: “Are you gay?”
His response: “Why would that be anyone’s business? Including The Californian’s?
“I think there are certain subjects that are simply not relevant and this is one of them. It has no bearing on the job I do."
It must be tough when just about everything anybody says about you is prefaced with the words “disgraced former assemblyman.” But that’s what Mike Duvall lives with every day. ... is benefiting from being away from the non-stop Sacramento smorgasbord provided courtesy of all those lobbyists.
..."hot mike” ... “set-up” by an aide and other assemblymen ...
[newly appointed] Assembly Speaker John Pérez [40, a cousin of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa] ... his years as an executive with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union ... Pérez carved a lucrative exception into state law for billionaire developer Philip Anschutz. He also introduced a bill at the request of Enterprise Car Rental that would have helped boost the company’s bottom line by stripping away a significant consumer protection…
Pérez voted to give millions in government subsidies to a giant real estate firm that contributed heavily to his union’s political fund ... one step short of payola ... “In retrospect, yeah, I would have asked questions,” Pérez said ...
Pérez said there was no connection between his votes and the contributions, adding that he didn’t “know ...
[Perez’] vote in 2005 to let CIM install “supergraphic” signs on Sunset Boulevard…
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Assembly Speaker John Pérez [BMOC]
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