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State legislature where getting arrested and indicted or even convicted on multiple felony counts doesn't cause you to lose your job. you get to keep being a senator. how can that be? we reported last week on the third arrest of a california state senator in as many months, and while i can happily report now that four days into the month of april, four days into month four, there has not yet been another senator arrested, i can also report that the california senate has finally decided that the trifecta here was maybe too embarrassing and so this past week, they finally voted to suspend these ...

Indicted but convicted. his fellow democrats stripped him, but when it came time to vote on kicking him out of the senate, they voted him no. the president of the state senate about that vote said, quote, the integrity of this institution cannot tolerate a convicted felon in its ranks? but at this time, senator wright is not a convicted felon. yes, actually, senator wright totally was a convicted felon. when you're convicted of eight felonies, that means you're literally aoofelon. then when the second guy got arrested and indicted on 24 counts, he, too, was allowed to take a leave of absence, ...

An important update on the saga on why the word politician has become an insult in our country. and how we can possibly start to tirn that around. we're at the start of the month of april, right? the start of the fourth month of year. and that's a very hopeful time, it turns out, in the great state of california, because it means that california gets another shot, california gets a fourth try at getting through a whole calendar month in 2014 without another california senator getting indicted or convicted on multiple felony criminal charges. april so far is a clean slate. maybe this will be th...

Convicted of 8 felonies, he had first been indicted in 2010 and then in january he got convicted eight times over. senator wright would not resign his senate seat. they put him on a leave of absence, but he's still being paid his state senator salary and still technically holds the seat. they debated kicking him out of the senate. this is the most amazing part. the state senate president explained after that vote the integrity of this institution cannot tolerate a convicted felon in its ranks, but at this time senator wright is not a convicted felon. actually, he totally was he was convicted o...

Extinct. functionally it no longer mattered if elected republicans showed up to work at the state capital. democrats won so many seats in that election they could do anything they wanted without a single republican vote on anything. democrats not only had the majority in the senate they had super majorities they had the right to override a veto if they wanted to. they had enough to enact anything they wanted that was budget related or tax related for the state. even though those things require a two thirds vote in the state assembly and state senate. and then, of course, by the law of politica...