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For departing Sen. Migden, 'a bittersweet time'
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/1/8 | Wyatt Buchanan

Posted on 12/01/2008 7:43:38 AM PST by SmithL

Early in her career in Sacramento, Carole Migden was a rising politician. As an assemblywoman more than a decade ago, her name came up in conversations about who would be the next speaker of the Assembly.

The San Francisco Democrat chaired key committees as a member of the Assembly and later the Senate, and her bills to provide benefits for domestic partners, save old growth forests and force makers of cosmetics to disclose chemicals were signed into law.

But personal and political missteps hurt Migden's reputation, including her rambling, bumper car-like drive down Interstate 80 last year and her casting of a vote for an absent Republican who opposed the cosmetics bill.

In June, Migden, 60, lost her seat to Democratic rival Mark Leno, a San Francisco Democrat who was termed out of the Assembly. After 18 years in elected office, Sunday was her last day as state senator.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may appoint her to the state Integrated Waste Management Board, a job that pays $132,000 a year.

In an interview at her San Francisco office last week, Migden said she was hopeful about the appointment. "I'm feeling good and I'm excited about the future," she said. "It's really a bittersweet time."

She also has been mentioned as a possible future candidate for her old job as a San Francisco supervisor, which she held from 1991 to 1996 until winning a special election for Willie Brown's Assembly seat when he became mayor of San Francisco.

Migden said she is flattered that people are talking about her running for public office. "I'd rather have that than 'Let's throw the bum out forever,' " she said.

She came to the Bay Area from New York in 1970, spending her first night on a ...houseboat

...After being married and coming out as lesbian in the mid-1970s,

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: migden; sanfranciscovalues; yourtaxdollarsatwork
Don't worry about Carole, she'll collect a taxpayer-funded paycheck for the foreseeable future.
1 posted on 12/01/2008 7:43:38 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
Gad, what an odd looking woman.

The lights are on, but nobody's home.

2 posted on 12/01/2008 7:44:55 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse (TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary - recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

Interesting that she was married to a man at one time, then came out as a lesbian.

That seems to happen with some females.


3 posted on 12/01/2008 7:52:11 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: AnAmericanMother

She’s loony tunes. She’s abused her staff members and was arrested for erratic driving and irrational behavior after being stopped. Thank you Arnold for keeping her on the public payroll.


4 posted on 12/01/2008 7:53:23 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: AnAmericanMother

Send her back to Nu Yawk!


5 posted on 12/01/2008 7:53:52 AM PST by Never2baCrat
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To: AnAmericanMother

Identity Theft Politics at its San Francisco best.
Is it a requirement in the SF political culture that one be “odd”?
How far did Sarah Palin have to keep her distance from San Francisco?


6 posted on 12/01/2008 7:53:58 AM PST by supremedoctrine ('Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn"--Delmore Schwartz)
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To: SmithL
---Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger may appoint her to the state Integrated Waste Management Board, a job that pays $132,000 a year.--

--???

7 posted on 12/01/2008 7:54:06 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: SmithL

8 posted on 12/01/2008 8:03:49 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: AnAmericanMother

9 posted on 12/01/2008 8:09:04 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (I'll give Obama the same amount of respect the left gave Bush)
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To: SmithL
Migden's reputation, including her rambling, bumper car-like drive down Interstate 80 last year

Boy, they sure glossed over that. Had any person, without her connections, done what she did that night they would have been jailed and justifiably convicted on multiple charges.

10 posted on 12/01/2008 8:11:07 AM PST by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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Investigation Into Sen. Migden's Car Crash Widens

Details on her 'bumper car' incident. This is the type of thing Democrats in California regularly ignore and forgive, when committed by the chosen ones.

11 posted on 12/01/2008 8:16:03 AM PST by Michael.SF. ("They're not Americans. They're liberals! "-- Ann Coulter, May 15, 2008)
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Thanks for the link.

Things to ponder:
" 'Unfortunately, she crossed three different CHP districts, so by the time we got into position in one area, she was in a different jurisdiction,' said Williford, who is the Solano area CHP spokesman." The police couldn't notify the next jurisdiction? They knew which directon she was going.

Your comment: This is the type of thing Democrats in California regularly ignore and forgive, when committed by the chosen ones.(underlines mine)
Indeed - example: In a telephone interview Tuesday with the AP, Jordan said two drivers who followed Migden off the interstate began berating her immediately after the accident.
(snip).
"She kept saying, 'You can't talk to me like that, I'm a state senator,'" he said. (underlines mine)
God, what a sense of entitlement these people have!

And the rub-your-nose-in-it ending: Because Migden said she was on state business at the time, insurance paid for by California's taxpayers will cover damages and any other costs.
Evidently they took her word and shafted the taxpayers yet again.

12 posted on 12/01/2008 8:50:42 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Michael.SF.
Thanks for the link.

Things to ponder:
" 'Unfortunately, she crossed three different CHP districts, so by the time we got into position in one area, she was in a different jurisdiction,' said Williford, who is the Solano area CHP spokesman." The police couldn't notify the next jurisdiction? They knew which directon she was going.

Your comment: This is the type of thing Democrats in California regularly ignore and forgive, when committed by the chosen ones.(underlines mine)
Indeed - example: In a telephone interview Tuesday with the AP, Jordan said two drivers who followed Migden off the interstate began berating her immediately after the accident.
(snip).
"She kept saying, 'You can't talk to me like that, I'm a state senator,'" he said. (underlines mine)
God, what a sense of entitlement these people have!

And the rub-your-nose-in-it ending: Because Migden said she was on state business at the time, insurance paid for by California's taxpayers will cover damages and any other costs.
Evidently theytook her word and shafted the taxpayers yet again.

13 posted on 12/01/2008 9:02:25 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: SmithL
Migden said she is flattered that people are talking about her running for public office. "I'd rather have that than 'Let's throw the bum out forever,' " she said.

Throw the bum out, forever.

14 posted on 12/01/2008 10:28:27 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: rellimpank
--???

Migden likely to get waste board appointment - from governor

15 posted on 12/01/2008 10:30:16 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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