Posted on 02/28/2010 9:27:28 AM PST by Steelfish
California Assembly Speaker-Elect Pérez Has Ties To Deep Pockets The legislator, who has cultivated an image as a crusader for the marginalized and powerless, has also advocated for the powerful.
Patrick McGreevy and Jack Dolan February 28, 2010
Reporting from Sacramento - Supporters of incoming Assembly Speaker John Pérez say his rapid climb from rank-and-file lawmaker to one of the most powerful offices in the state is due to his intellectual prowess and unwavering commitment to the working poor.
But Pérez, a Democrat who was chosen as speaker in December and will be sworn in Monday, has something that left-leaning former labor leaders and freshman lawmakers usually lack: a financial pipeline to billionaire developers and white-shoe investors who rank among the most politically active power brokers in the state.
Forged during his years as an executive with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, those ties have helped fill his campaign coffers. They have also outraged consumer advocates. And two of his mentors from the union came under the microscope in recent political corruption investigations.
Many of Pérez's legislative efforts have been consistent with the image he has cultivated as a crusader for the marginalized and powerless. He said he's most proud of a bill that authorizes a study of foul drinking water streaming from taps in the small, poor city of Maywood in his district.
But he has also championed causes that seem directly at odds with his political persona. In 2009, his first full year as a lawmaker, 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.
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Finishing off what is left of Taxifornia.
Why should we Americans listen to any thing this criminal has to say? We aren't ruled by his laws. Those are the laws of Mexico and the Mexican people. They don't extend to us.
Was he born here? So what. His loyalty is to that nation.
This is the end game for America. A stupid side show like Iraq is meaningless; 5 years after we leave it will be an Islamist snake pit with no connection to the U.S., as if there ever was any.
But if Mexico extends its evil grip into the once happy land of the Gringos, all bets are off folks: we and humanity in general will be damaged.
The Socialist March Continues- Fabian Nunez; Antonio Villairagosa; Karen Bass; and now the Hispanic Gay Guy! All Minority Assembly Speakers!
Such are the results of term limits: People who get into positions of power before they are fully vetted. They do just as much damage (if not more) than the Willie Browns of this world, but owe no loyalty to anyone other than their sponsors because they don't care if they get re-elected.
‘This is the end game for America. A stupid side show like Iraq is meaningless; 5 years after we leave it will be an Islamist snake pit with no connection to the U.S., as if there ever was any.
But if Mexico extends its evil grip into the once happy land of the Gringos, all bets are off folks: we and humanity in general will be damaged.’
You are one of the few who get it. The number one issue facing this country is illegal immigration and all the ilk it brings. The crime and corruption that America is and will be facing will shock the American public. All one has to do is to look south to see what portends for our once great nation.
“Lawmakers” fashion laws and regulations so that they can be bought off by creating loopholes for those rich and powerful enough by pay! Call it Pay to Play and the scheme works like clockwork.
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