Ahhhh...disrupting hearings disrupts my coffee breaks.....
Posted on 02/19/2010 8:02:01 AM PST by SmithL
Since when do senators (and presumably assemblymen as well) have "press secretaries" as well as aides? Since the state is flush with debt and unable to balance its budget?
This is just one more example of the political class -- the ones in office, that is -- protecting their own behinds, and to he11 with everyone else.
I wonder how many people will remember the “Mrs. aWiggins” line from the Carol Burnett show? Tim Conway, right?
Who else is there to get their water, coffee, grapes, fan, etc. and cater to their needs?
Yes, she is a democrat.
Ahhhh...disrupting hearings disrupts my coffee breaks.....
“California Democrat who came of age in the ‘60’s?
Windowpane Flashback.”
Some is wrong with her CNS wiring and lack of self control.
It is amazing how the rats protect their fellow crazies and criminals and allow them to stay in office.
Wiggins wigs out?....
She is my senator. We are so proud of her. This is from back in Aug.
“At last Wednesday’s hearing to discuss global warming, Wiggins, 68, interrupted testimony being given by Sacramento pastor Robert Jones, telling him, “Excuse me, but I think your arguments are bull——.”
apparently had failed to refill a water canister.
NO WATER FOR YOU!
Let her dehydrate. Then she she can experience what the farmers of central California are feeling after her environmental whacko buddies cut off their water.
Here she is on youtube.
“CA State Senator Pat Wiggins (D) Testimony “Bull Shit”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6RTUI6g_r0
Here she is on youtube.
“CA State Senator Pat Wiggins (D) Testimony “Bull Shit”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6RTUI6g_r0
she’s being treated for liberalism, a mental disorder.
http://dist02.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={146A2368-E2B2-4E09-A945-E9AF293049C8}
About Pat
Senator Pat Wiggins began her political career in local government, as a member of the Santa Rosa City Council. She then became the Assemblymember for the 7th District (Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties) until she was forced out of office by term limits in December of 2004. During her time in the Assembly, she served as Chair of the Local Government and Banking Committees.
In 2000, Assemblywoman Wiggins founded the Legislature’s Smart Growth Caucus (www.assembly.ca.gov/sgc), which grew to include 47 of the legislature’s 120 members over the next few years. She is the author of AB 857 (statutes of 2002), the most comprehensive state land use planning legislation in thirty years. AB 857 established California’s spending priorities for future growth to help prevent sprawl, and to promote compact development and greater social equity. She is also the author of legislation to facilitate farmworker housing, to promote mixed-use development and to increase funding for agricultural protection. Other legislative initiatives (or efforts) included:
* AB 2878 (2001), which would have required cities to swap a portion of their sales tax revenue with counties for a portion of the counties’ property tax revenue
* AB 1268 (initial version) (2003) which would have established statewide urban growth boundaries and inclusionary zoning
* AB 2924 (2004) which would have provided grants to install solar panels on publicly subsidized housing developments
In October 2001, Assemblymember Wiggins brought together representatives of Napa County and its member cities and urged them to plan collectively for the area’s long-term housing needs. Local officials agreed, and went a step further by agreeing to work together on a comprehensive, county-wide land-use plan. Wiggins provided support throughout the process, which to date has resulted in significant agreements among the governmental entities involved.
In 2006, she was elected to represent California’s large 2nd Senate District, which includes portions or all of six North Coast Counties: Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma.
As a first-term Senator, Pat introduced 35 pieces of legislation in 2007 on topics ranging from agriculture, youth employment and land use to political reform, health care and veterans’ affairs. Her other top legislative priorities include promoting waste reduction, protecting working families and increasing educational opportunities for California’s school-aged children.
Seventeen of Pat’s 2008 bills were signed into law, including: SB 562, allocating more than $5 million toward coastal salmon and steelhead fisheries restoration; SB 634, recognizing the growth and progress of California olive oil producers by establishing new standards for oils produced in the state; and SB 780 and SB 1149, maintaining telephone services for residents of low-income and rural areas of California.
Pat chairs the Senate Committee on Local Government, the Senate Select Committee on California’s Wine Industry, and the Joint Legislative Committee on Fisheries & Aquaculture. She also serves as a member of numerous other committees, including Energy, Utilities & Communications, Governmental Organization, Natural Resources & Wildlife, and Veterans Affairs.
Senator Wiggins is a second-generation Californian and a resident of Santa Rosa since 1985. She is married to Guy Conner, a computer software engineer with whom she has two stepsons, Jim and Steve Silverman, and three grand-children.
Pat, at one time, was an accomplished parachutist, having been raised in a family of daredevils. Her father, Ralph Wiggins, was the stuntman responsible for the wing-walking maneuvers in Robert Redford’s classic movie, The Great Waldo Pepper, and her mother Grace was one of the first women ever to parachute.
Be a good idea to keep a camera handy too.
Groups Give Wiggins Perfect Scores for Her Votes on Environmental Legislation in 2009
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Sacramento – North Coast State Senator Patricia Wiggins (D – Santa Rosa) was one of only a handful of state senators to earn a 100% score last year from three leading environmental organizations.
In their recently-released assessments of state legislators’ votes on Assembly and Senate bills in 2009, the Sierra Club, Environment California and the California League of Conservation Voters (CLCV) all rated Wiggins as perfect in her support for legislation to protect forests and the coast along with air and water quality.
Among the key environmental bills targeted by the CLCV was SB 670, authored by Senator Wiggins and signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. According to the CLCV, SB 670 “prohibits the destructive practice of suction dredging stream beds in search of gold.”
Wiggins represents California’s 2nd Senate District, which includes portions or all of six counties: Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano and Sonoma.
Is this your State Senator, by chance 8-?
FMCDH(BITS)
Perhaps a 4 Martini lunch? I am so glad she is from your district. Wait... she’s my senator too? The local talk radio station reported this story verbatim this morning.
Translation from lib-speak to English:
1) Prevent sprawl - Deprive Americans of the opportunity to own land
2) Promote compact development - Force Americans into cities
3) Greater social equity - Take money from Americans who earn it and give it away to those who don't
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