Posted on 06/01/2007 10:14:46 PM PDT by goldstategop
Everyone knows about New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's decision to speed down a state highway sans seatbelt and the price he paid for flouting the laws he was charged with enforcing.
Corzine was at least repentant, acknowledging the error of his ways.
Sen. Carole Migden
Now meet California state Sen. Carole Migden, D-San Francisco.
Last month, after she was chewed out for colliding with another motorist between her district and Sacramento, she declared: "You can't talk to me like that. I'm a senator."
When the news first leaked out, Migden explained she'd been momentarily distracted while reaching for a cell phone. Keep in mind this is the same Sen. Migden who authored a bill banning hand-held cell phone usage while driving.
But then word got out that other witnesses had called 911 to report she was driving erratically for 30 miles along Interstate 80.
Migden revised her story. Three days after the crash, she claimed her driving problems were likely the result of a "very powerful regimen of medication" she takes every day as part of a previously undisclosed, 10-year bout with leukemia.
While we can all sympathize with Migden's health challenges, her revelation about driving while under the influence of powerful drugs raises other serious questions: Why hasn't she been arrested? Aren't there laws against driving under the influence of powerful intoxicants? Don't these laws apply even to distinguished senators from the state of California – even when they are battling health problems?
Nevertheless, Migden's tearful story of victimization seems to have quieted her critics in the Golden State. Even her political challengers seem tongue-tied.
Migden was caught red-handed endangering the lives of others and responding arrogantly when she was busted for it.
So what did she do?
She pulled a Clinton. She kept changing the subject. She made the world feel sorry for her. In no time at all, the perp had become the victim. That is the legacy, ultimately, of former President Bill Clinton. And his wife, Hillary, is hoping to build another presidency upon that foundation of deception.
And this is who Migden is. In 2006, a survey of legislative staffers by Capitol Weekly newspaper found she was the "worst boss" in Sacramento. When she was elected to the Assembly seat formerly held by Speaker Willie Brown, she declared the Legislature was getting "a lesbian with a tube of lipstick in one hand and a bayonet in the other."
In her first year in office, a San Francisco Examiner column labeld her "Sacramento's scariest boss." She has a reputation for firing key aides and dispatching her state employees on personal errands like picking up gourmet coffee and fixing her dryer.
Want more arrogance?
In a recent meeting in her office with officials from San Francisco's teachers union, one member of the group called Migden by her first name.
According to Dennis Kelly, president of United Educators of San Francisco, Migden wheeled around and scolded: "That's Senator Migden to you."
Later, she scolded Kelly's associate for using the term "more bang for the buck."
"Don't you ever say that in my office, that's a prostitution term," she claimed.
In fact, "more bang for the buck" originated in the 1960s in connection with defense spending.
But what are we going to do about Carole and politicians like her?
Should we just blame it on the meds?
Or should elected officials be held to at least the same standard of civilized behavior as the average taxpayer?
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
INTREP
Your Mickey Mouse laws don’t apply to me, I’m a politician from San Francisco.
Yeah, we know than enough about who you are, Carole.
LOL! Wonder if she knows what 'niggardly' means?
The rule of law means nothing anymore...
With the Congress and the President ignoring their Constitutional duty to protect us from invasion, why is this fruitcake Migden any different?
The rule of law is gone. Get ready...
Is it common for someone to be battling leukemia for 10 years?
What is the prognosis for someone who is diagnosed with leukemia? How many people with leukemia live 10 or more years with nobody knowing they have it, or without showing any signs of it?
-PJ
You're going to reelect her, if history is any indication...
How insensitive of you! She's sick! She's a lesbian! She's a Senator! How dare you question this poor suffering public servant!
</sarcasm>
“What are we going to do about Carole and politicians like her?”
Apparently, nothing.
What you would take her word that she acyually has leukemia.
If I was cynical I could think of perhaps another disease that is survivable for 10 yrs, requiring heavy medication.
I didn’t know who she was, so I could have honestly answered, “no”. When I first saw the photo I thought it was that Dame Edna or whoever.
Of course, you mean the kind where you have to take a "cocktail" of medication?
-PJ
I don’t know how common it is these days, but my grandmother fought leukemia for over a decade, and that was with the treatments available 35 years ago.
I don’t feel sorry for her.
Carole, there’s one and only one person on God’s green earth who can make “Do you know who the hell I am?” sound cool...and you’re not Evel Knievel.
“Cocktail.” Isn’t that what got them the disease?
Well, then you'll have to draw me a map of how Carol Senator Migden got it.
-PJ
Of course, only if I was cynical
I had no idea ugliness could sink so low..... lmao
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