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He coined the great phrase "recovering politician" to describe himself when he started his radio show (he was mayor of San Diego in the mid 1980s.) I listened to his show religiously when I lived in SD ten years ago.

Don't be fooled by his schtick whether on KOGO, on TV (how STUPID is ABC to let him on TV again), or from behind the "Golden EIB mic" for Rush. Roger's no less a politician than when he was ousted (resigned when indicted) from the mayor's office in a campaign finance scandal. He insists the case was baseless, ran by an out of control prosecutore, backed by people who wanted to do what they couldn't do at the ballot box. He claims his conviction was overturned by the CA Supreme Court. It's so that his 12 perjury convictions--from the 2nd trial, the first was a hung jury--were reversed. His felony conviction was reversed to a misdemeanor and later dismissed with him still paying a $5000 fine. Oddly enough, his lawyer was (I think) ex-mob lawyer, the now Las Vegas mayor.

Oh, I know the whole story about Hedgecock. He was a bad politician, for sure, but he is a good radio talker. He is also an equal opportunity basher - I have heard him go after bad Republicans (of which there are unfortunately many in San Diego) just as hard as bad Democrats. I have not heard him doing Rush's show. When I was in San Diego he was leading the "light up the border" group that was trying desperately to call attention to the flood of illegals coming over the border. He was called a racist and every other name in the book by the liberals, which endeared me to him immediately. I wish more people had listened to him then. He also got reeeeeally mad when President Bush reneged on his "no-new-taxes" pledge in 1990, and got a bunch of people to protest at the local RINO congressman's office. I liked that, too.