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Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes -- and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud -- living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature -- both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then -- just one month later -- came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running -- all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"TbJcfLVhuM0vsrVTIdUNag6A9A1sCmEr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. \"One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. Three?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\">voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee\u003c/a> -- two days after Yee’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Constitution\u003c/a> does not allow the Legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three suspended senators still got their taxpayer-funded salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So later that year, the Legislature nearly unanimously placed the constitutional amendment on the June 2016 ballot that's now called Prop. 50. It would allow the Assembly or Senate to suspend one of its members -- with or without pay -- with a two-thirds vote. Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,\" says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker -- and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,\" says Mayer. \"So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really,\" he says, \"those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will have a chilling effect,\" Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. \"Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That's a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law -- which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There's just one measure on the ballot for California's June primary. Prop. 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1464976197,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":703},"headData":{"title":"Prop. 50: Should Legislature Be Able to Suspend Lawmakers Without Pay? | KQED","description":"There's just one measure on the ballot for California's June primary. 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Proposition 50, which stems from scandals that hit the state Senate, would allow the state Legislature to suspend lawmakers without pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story behind Prop. 50 starts in 2013, when the FBI raided the office of Democratic state \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/18711\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Ron Calderon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/267294508'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to a sealed affidavit obtained exclusively by \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/exclusive-hollywoodsting.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera’s\u003c/a> investigative unit, the senator is for sale: a politician willing to influence legislation in exchange for money,” reported Al Jazeera at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/calderon-dynasty.html\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America\u003c/a> would later report, the FBI accused Calderon of accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes -- and Calderon was indicted in February 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later came the conviction of a different Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/03/wright-case-hits-close-to-home-for-many-calif-lawmakers/\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Wright\u003c/a>, for perjury and voter fraud -- living outside his district in violation of state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974683 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/RodWright-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Rod Wright, convicted of perjury and voter fraud. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Senate.CA.Gov)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A handful of Republicans tried to expel Wright. They said a convicted felon has no place in the California Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Democrats blocked it. Then-President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg argued the irreversible action of expulsion was premature -- both for Wright, who was trying to overturn his conviction, and for Calderon, who had yet to face trial. They remained on indefinite leaves of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then -- just one month later -- came a third Democratic senator, \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2014/03/26/report-state-sen-leland-yee-indicted-on-bribery,-corruption-charges\" target=\"_blank\">Leland Yee\u003c/a> was arrested for bribery, corruption and gun running -- all while pushing legislation against violent video games and guns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Steinberg, that was enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the concern out there. I disagree with it, but I understand it,“ he told the Senate in late March of 2014 as he asked members to suspend three of their colleagues. \"One is an anomaly, two is a coincidence. Three?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the Senate \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/28/state-senate-suspends-leland-yee-ron-calderon-roderick-wright/\" target=\"_blank\">voted to suspend Calderon, Wright and Yee\u003c/a> -- two days after Yee’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html\" target=\"_blank\">California Constitution\u003c/a> does not allow the Legislature to strip a lawmaker of pay, the three suspended senators still got their taxpayer-funded salaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So later that year, the Legislature nearly unanimously placed the constitutional amendment on the June 2016 ballot that's now called Prop. 50. It would allow the Assembly or Senate to suspend one of its members -- with or without pay -- with a two-thirds vote. Right now, it takes a two-thirds vote to expel a lawmaker, but just a simple majority to suspend one with pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a really good example of where they think they need one more tool to protect the dignity and preserve the public trust in their institution,\" says Jim Mayer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cafwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">California Forward\u003c/a>, a non-profit advocacy group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10974685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10974685 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-1180x773.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/06/LelandYee-960x629.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former state Sen. Leland Yee, who pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He says it’s incredibly rare that the Legislature must suspend or expel a lawmaker -- and it may never happen again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But if it does, the Legislature would have the tool,\" says Mayer. \"So it’s a simple choice for voters: Do you want the Legislature to have the ability to suspend them without pay, or not?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Senator Joel Anderson disagrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Really,\" he says, \"those people shouldn’t be suspended; they should be expelled. If you cannot perform the duty of voting for a bill, for whatever reason, then you need to go home.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he worries about the possible intimidation of lawmakers who can’t afford to lose their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This will have a chilling effect,\" Anderson says, sitting in his Capitol office. \"Can you imagine telling a legislator, we’re gonna dock your pay for two weeks because you spoke out?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. 50 has drawn very little attention this election cycle. That's a stark contrast to when three California senators ran afoul of the law -- which is what led to Prop. 50 in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10974620/proposition-50-should-legislature-be-able-to-suspend-lawmakers-without-pay","authors":["byline_news_10974620"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_19101"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_19217","news_19522","news_139","news_5689","news_4475","news_17286","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_10974673","label":"news_72"},"news_10876832":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10876832","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10876832","score":null,"sort":[1456341427000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"leland-yee-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-on-corruption-arms-charges","title":"Former State Sen. Leland Yee Gets 5 Years on Corruption, Arms Charges","publishDate":1456341427,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Leland Yee was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer rejected Yee's request for leniency -- a plea the longtime San Francisco public official and his lawyer said should be based on his record of public service and on his wife's deteriorating health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You raise the issue of leniency, and I think I have to say something about that,\" Breyer said. \"I don’t feel I should be lenient. ... The crimes you have committed have resulted in essentially an attack on democratic institutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and Keith Jackson, a close associate and San Francisco political consultant, were swept up in a wide-ranging federal investigation of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-guilty-on-all-162-counts-in-racketeering-murder-trial\" target=\"_blank\">now-convicted\u003c/a> Chinatown crime boss Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undercover FBI agent met Jackson as part of the Chow investigation, and Jackson invited him to contribute to Yee, who was trying to retire a campaign debt and raise funds for his campaign for California secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e6Qhheuw7eEjzLEN6y1yQuD0FMsJbFQp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent's introduction to Yee led to a long series of contacts involving other undercover agents. Yee and Jackson were indicted and arrested in March 2014 after they negotiated bribes to support legislation and payments for a variety of favors, including an official state Senate proclamation congratulating Chow's Chee Kung Tong organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee told Breyer that \"nothing that I will ever do will take away the pain that I’ve caused to my family, friends, supporters and the institution that I represent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Yee said, \"I hope that in your sentencing of me that you look at the entire life and not just these crimes that I’ve committed. In the 67 years of my life, I have devoted much of it to the work for the community of people here in San Francisco and the state of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Yee has taken responsibility, has led a good life, has made mistakes, has admitted his mistakes, and he shouldn’t be sort of overpunished because he happens to be a public official,\" said defense attorney James Lassart. \"It should not be an overarching crushing of this man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breyer blasted Yee for abusing the public's trust and offering his vote for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the court’s view, this is a very serious violation of trust,\" Breyer said. \"Votes are not for sale, positions are not for sale, and your conduct, and it’s on hours and hours of tape indicating that it was for sale, is a violation of trust. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer also fined Yee $20,000. Yee, who had served on the San Francisco school board and Board of Supervisors before being elected to both houses of the state Legislature, must surrender to begin his sentence in 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, Breyer sentenced Jackson to nine years in prison, eliciting quiet sobs from a supporter in the court's audience. Prosecutors had requested a 10-year sentence, the maximum allowed under Jackson's plea agreement. Breyer said he considered it, given the former political consultant and San Francisco school board president's conduct was \"akin to being a one-person crime wave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scope of your criminal involvement was enormous,\" Breyer said, adding that Jackson's crimes -- including gun and drug trafficking and facilitating illegal pay-to-play campaign donations for Yee -- is \"extremely disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson made a short statement to the court, telling Breyer that that he takes full responsibility for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I could have walked away,\" he said, \"and I should have walked away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors, who portrayed Yee as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">a cynical grafter\u003c/a>, had asked for a sentence of eight years in prison and a $25,000 fine, which would have been beyond federal sentencing guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's defense lawyer had sought a sentence of no more than five years and three months -- but had also suggested Yee do no prison time because of his wife's condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Yee were also implicated in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/23/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings\" target=\"_blank\">a scheme to traffic weapons.\u003c/a> Yee and Jackson told the original undercover agent in the case they had contacts who could secure a wide range of arms, including automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that we took a large number of incredibly dangerous firearms off the street and potentially prevented a great deal more from coming to the Bay Area,\" federal prosecutor William Frentzen told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee was a noted proponent of stricter gun control during his tenure in the Legislature, a fact an incredulous-soundng Breyer noted during Wednesday's sentencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Putting aside for the moment, basically a hypocritical position on your part, in favor of gun control, and then engaging in a process whereby weapons would be brought into the United States is frightening and unfathomable. The harm that can be caused today by weapons is incalculable, and how you could participate in this conspiracy is, I can’t express it, I can’t tell you how disturbing it is, the harm that could be caused by these weapons is incalculable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why sanction and participate in this deal? That answer I think that comes out on the tape is for money. You did it for money … Perpetuation of your power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You were willing to go entirely contrary to your stated position and engage in this type of transaction for money, and that to me is the most venal thing and the most dangerous thing that I’ve seen that you’ve done.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Judge rejects plea for leniency and excoriates disgraced politico for betraying public trust. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1456362423,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":938},"headData":{"title":"Former State Sen. Leland Yee Gets 5 Years on Corruption, Arms Charges | KQED","description":"Judge rejects plea for leniency and excoriates disgraced politico for betraying public trust. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Former State Sen. Leland Yee Gets 5 Years on Corruption, Arms Charges","datePublished":"2016-02-24T19:17:07.000Z","dateModified":"2016-02-25T01:07:03.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10876832 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10876832","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/24/leland-yee-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-on-corruption-arms-charges/","disqusTitle":"Former State Sen. Leland Yee Gets 5 Years on Corruption, Arms Charges","path":"/news/10876832/leland-yee-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-on-corruption-arms-charges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Leland Yee was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of racketeering and arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer rejected Yee's request for leniency -- a plea the longtime San Francisco public official and his lawyer said should be based on his record of public service and on his wife's deteriorating health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You raise the issue of leniency, and I think I have to say something about that,\" Breyer said. \"I don’t feel I should be lenient. ... The crimes you have committed have resulted in essentially an attack on democratic institutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and Keith Jackson, a close associate and San Francisco political consultant, were swept up in a wide-ranging federal investigation of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-guilty-on-all-162-counts-in-racketeering-murder-trial\" target=\"_blank\">now-convicted\u003c/a> Chinatown crime boss Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An undercover FBI agent met Jackson as part of the Chow investigation, and Jackson invited him to contribute to Yee, who was trying to retire a campaign debt and raise funds for his campaign for California secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agent's introduction to Yee led to a long series of contacts involving other undercover agents. Yee and Jackson were indicted and arrested in March 2014 after they negotiated bribes to support legislation and payments for a variety of favors, including an official state Senate proclamation congratulating Chow's Chee Kung Tong organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee told Breyer that \"nothing that I will ever do will take away the pain that I’ve caused to my family, friends, supporters and the institution that I represent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, Yee said, \"I hope that in your sentencing of me that you look at the entire life and not just these crimes that I’ve committed. In the 67 years of my life, I have devoted much of it to the work for the community of people here in San Francisco and the state of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Senator Yee has taken responsibility, has led a good life, has made mistakes, has admitted his mistakes, and he shouldn’t be sort of overpunished because he happens to be a public official,\" said defense attorney James Lassart. \"It should not be an overarching crushing of this man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breyer blasted Yee for abusing the public's trust and offering his vote for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the court’s view, this is a very serious violation of trust,\" Breyer said. \"Votes are not for sale, positions are not for sale, and your conduct, and it’s on hours and hours of tape indicating that it was for sale, is a violation of trust. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breyer also fined Yee $20,000. Yee, who had served on the San Francisco school board and Board of Supervisors before being elected to both houses of the state Legislature, must surrender to begin his sentence in 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, Breyer sentenced Jackson to nine years in prison, eliciting quiet sobs from a supporter in the court's audience. Prosecutors had requested a 10-year sentence, the maximum allowed under Jackson's plea agreement. Breyer said he considered it, given the former political consultant and San Francisco school board president's conduct was \"akin to being a one-person crime wave.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scope of your criminal involvement was enormous,\" Breyer said, adding that Jackson's crimes -- including gun and drug trafficking and facilitating illegal pay-to-play campaign donations for Yee -- is \"extremely disturbing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson made a short statement to the court, telling Breyer that that he takes full responsibility for his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I could have walked away,\" he said, \"and I should have walked away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors, who portrayed Yee as \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">a cynical grafter\u003c/a>, had asked for a sentence of eight years in prison and a $25,000 fine, which would have been beyond federal sentencing guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's defense lawyer had sought a sentence of no more than five years and three months -- but had also suggested Yee do no prison time because of his wife's condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Yee were also implicated in \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/23/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings\" target=\"_blank\">a scheme to traffic weapons.\u003c/a> Yee and Jackson told the original undercover agent in the case they had contacts who could secure a wide range of arms, including automatic weapons and shoulder-fired missiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We believe that we took a large number of incredibly dangerous firearms off the street and potentially prevented a great deal more from coming to the Bay Area,\" federal prosecutor William Frentzen told Breyer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee was a noted proponent of stricter gun control during his tenure in the Legislature, a fact an incredulous-soundng Breyer noted during Wednesday's sentencing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Putting aside for the moment, basically a hypocritical position on your part, in favor of gun control, and then engaging in a process whereby weapons would be brought into the United States is frightening and unfathomable. The harm that can be caused today by weapons is incalculable, and how you could participate in this conspiracy is, I can’t express it, I can’t tell you how disturbing it is, the harm that could be caused by these weapons is incalculable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why sanction and participate in this deal? That answer I think that comes out on the tape is for money. You did it for money … Perpetuation of your power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You were willing to go entirely contrary to your stated position and engage in this type of transaction for money, and that to me is the most venal thing and the most dangerous thing that I’ve seen that you’ve done.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10876832/leland-yee-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-on-corruption-arms-charges","authors":["222","3206"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_139","news_6058"],"featImg":"news_10876881","label":"news_72"},"news_10875660":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10875660","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10875660","score":null,"sort":[1456282941000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings","title":"Court Filings ID Leland Yee’s 'Arms Dealer' as Colma Tombstone Carver","publishDate":1456282941,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>New court filings in the sentencing of former state Sen. Leland Yee and his political consultant Keith Jackson point to a Colma tombstone carver as the man the two talked about as a potential supplier of weapons for an undercover FBI agent posing as an East Coast Mafioso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and Jackson \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> last year to racketeering, including conspiring to traffic weapons. They are scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors' sentencing documents related to Yee and Jackson -- who were caught up in the sprawling federal investigation of San Francisco Chinatown crime boss Raymond “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/shrimp-boy\" target=\"_blank\">Shrimp Boy\u003c/a>” Chow -- detail meetings involving Yee, Jackson and the undercover agent in which they discuss a potential arms supplier referred to as \"the Russian.\" In one conversation mentioned in the documents, Yee also refers to the alleged arms merchant as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual identity of \"the Russian\" has emerged in defense filings as Leon Rader, the Colma stonecutter, who came to the Bay Area from the former Soviet Union in the early 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked Tuesday about prosecutors' description of him as an \"international arms dealer,\" Rader laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe my new occupation?” he said in a telephone interview. “No, I’m an artist and a sculptor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leon hates guns,” said his son, Michael Rader. “It’s absolutely absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tombstone Connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chow investigation took an unexpected turn after it split into a related probe of Jackson and Yee’s political corruption, according to federal prosecutors. Jackson told an undercover FBI agent who went by the alias David Jordan in August 2013 that Yee was associated with a Russian arms dealer and could broker a deal in exchange for donations to Yee’s campaign for secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say in multiple filings that Jordan had also been negotiating a large cocaine deal with Jackson, his son Brandon Jackson and their associate Marlon Sullivan -- all scheduled to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> Wednesday. The agent tied the cocaine deal to Jackson’s success in brokering a meeting with “the Russian” through Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s attorney, James Lassart, contends that Rader, the owner of Colma tombstone company Art in Stone Monuments, is simply a longtime acquaintance of Yee’s. Rader's company made a legal campaign donation to Yee’s secretary of state campaign on March 4, 2014, about three weeks before Yee's arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing, Lassart wrote: \"To this day, there is no disclosed discovery of any information attaching Mr. Rader to international arms trafficking or any business other than stone carving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart did not respond to calls for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputy Henry Sutter says he's known Rader for more than three decades, since Rader came to the Bay Area. He says the stonecutter has a reputation as \"a great artist with a creative mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sutter also describes Rader as \"a bully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He tries to emulate that he has mob ties and can use those ties to get whatever he wants,\" said Sutter, a co-owner of Kollmann & Sutter Monument Co. in Colma who has tangled in court with Rader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rader sued Sutter in 2003, alleging his competitor had infringed on his copyright by stealing monument designs. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disputed Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their sentencing memorandum for Yee earlier this month, prosecutors traced the arms smuggling discussions between the FBI's undercover agent, Yee and Keith Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2013, the memorandum recounts, Jackson told the agent that \"Yee was associated with a Russian who was an international arms dealer. Jackson said the Russian arms dealer was currently shipping large stockpiles of weapons to the Philippines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2013, the memorandum says, Jackson told the undercover agent \"the Russian had access to 'containers' full of weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, the agent is said to have given $5,000 to Jackson to set up a meeting with the Russian. On Dec. 19, Yee and Jackson met \"an individual whom the FBI identified, was Russian, and whom the FBI had reason to believe was connected to arms trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conversations in January 2014, Yee had lots more to say about his Russian contact, prosecutors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yee said the Russian 'has things you guys want,' \" the sentencing memorandum says. \"Yee cautioned however, that doing business with the Russians is not easy, and not for the 'faint of heart.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, prosecutors say, Yee referred to his Russian contact as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader and his son said in a joint interview Tuesday that Yee and Jackson stopped by for lunch in December 2013 and asked them for a donation. They said they had never met Jackson before or since and that Yee and Leon were not close. They said two FBI agents visited them a few weeks after Yee's arrest in 2014, but they've had no further contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came to my shop,\" said Leon Rader. \"They asked me about Leland Yee. I told them I cannot say about this man, nothing else but good things. The only interaction I had with him was when I built the war memorial in San Francisco, and he was behind the World War memorial, and I was dealing with him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usssanfrancisco.org/USS%20Frisco%20Memorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS San Francisco\u003c/a> memorial in 2003. Michael Rader said Yee had stopped by on a couple occasions after their memorial dealings, when he was running for office. He said it was \"poor timing\" on their part that they had donated to Yee only once, three weeks before he was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End of the Arms Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2014, the undercover agent met with Yee and Jackson and told them that he wanted to meet Yee's Russian contact. Yee reassured him that the source was the “real deal,” but he wouldn’t talk about weapons openly at the first meeting. The agent said he wanted “a container of AKs,” but Yee encouraged him to start with smaller deals and said the Russian would not do business with him unless Yee was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee said he was “agnostic” about the weapons, according to recordings quoted in prosecutors' filings. “People want to get whatever they want to get,” said Yee. “Do I care? No, I don’t care. People need certain things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said in their separate sentencing memorandum for Keith Jackson that the Russian -- now identified by Yee's attorney as Rader -- “was apparently too savvy to actually sit down face-to-face\" with the undercover agent. The document says the agent had been trying to get Yee and Jackson to set up a face-to-face meeting with the Russian \"to ... determine if he really intended to deal in weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's sentencing memorandums for Yee and Jackson insist arms trafficking through Yee's Russian contact was a real possibility. Prosecutors say the FBI amassed evidence documenting Yee and Jackson's meeting with the Russian, including phone records and surveillance photographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the arms deal were not a real potential source for weapons, there would have been no need for the defendants to hold meetings with [the Russian],\" prosecutors argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rader dimisses the notion his father is an arms merchant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me ask you something,\" Michael Rader said. \"How many international arms dealers do you know who spend seven days a week hauling stone?\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Man identified in defense filings denies being close to Yee and says he hasn't been involved in weapons trafficking. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1456363478,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1248},"headData":{"title":"Court Filings ID Leland Yee’s 'Arms Dealer' as Colma Tombstone Carver | KQED","description":"Man identified in defense filings denies being close to Yee and says he hasn't been involved in weapons trafficking. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Court Filings ID Leland Yee’s 'Arms Dealer' as Colma Tombstone Carver","datePublished":"2016-02-24T03:02:21.000Z","dateModified":"2016-02-25T01:24:38.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10875660 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10875660","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/23/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings/","disqusTitle":"Court Filings ID Leland Yee’s 'Arms Dealer' as Colma Tombstone Carver","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>John Shutt\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/aemslie\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Emslie\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/10875660/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>New court filings in the sentencing of former state Sen. Leland Yee and his political consultant Keith Jackson point to a Colma tombstone carver as the man the two talked about as a potential supplier of weapons for an undercover FBI agent posing as an East Coast Mafioso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and Jackson \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> last year to racketeering, including conspiring to traffic weapons. They are scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors' sentencing documents related to Yee and Jackson -- who were caught up in the sprawling federal investigation of San Francisco Chinatown crime boss Raymond “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/shrimp-boy\" target=\"_blank\">Shrimp Boy\u003c/a>” Chow -- detail meetings involving Yee, Jackson and the undercover agent in which they discuss a potential arms supplier referred to as \"the Russian.\" In one conversation mentioned in the documents, Yee also refers to the alleged arms merchant as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The actual identity of \"the Russian\" has emerged in defense filings as Leon Rader, the Colma stonecutter, who came to the Bay Area from the former Soviet Union in the early 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked Tuesday about prosecutors' description of him as an \"international arms dealer,\" Rader laughed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe my new occupation?” he said in a telephone interview. “No, I’m an artist and a sculptor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Leon hates guns,” said his son, Michael Rader. “It’s absolutely absurd.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tombstone Connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Chow investigation took an unexpected turn after it split into a related probe of Jackson and Yee’s political corruption, according to federal prosecutors. Jackson told an undercover FBI agent who went by the alias David Jordan in August 2013 that Yee was associated with a Russian arms dealer and could broker a deal in exchange for donations to Yee’s campaign for secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say in multiple filings that Jordan had also been negotiating a large cocaine deal with Jackson, his son Brandon Jackson and their associate Marlon Sullivan -- all scheduled to be \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/02/18/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced\u003c/a> Wednesday. The agent tied the cocaine deal to Jackson’s success in brokering a meeting with “the Russian” through Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee’s attorney, James Lassart, contends that Rader, the owner of Colma tombstone company Art in Stone Monuments, is simply a longtime acquaintance of Yee’s. Rader's company made a legal campaign donation to Yee’s secretary of state campaign on March 4, 2014, about three weeks before Yee's arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a court filing, Lassart wrote: \"To this day, there is no disclosed discovery of any information attaching Mr. Rader to international arms trafficking or any business other than stone carving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart did not respond to calls for comment Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Sheriff's Deputy Henry Sutter says he's known Rader for more than three decades, since Rader came to the Bay Area. He says the stonecutter has a reputation as \"a great artist with a creative mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Sutter also describes Rader as \"a bully.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He tries to emulate that he has mob ties and can use those ties to get whatever he wants,\" said Sutter, a co-owner of Kollmann & Sutter Monument Co. in Colma who has tangled in court with Rader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rader sued Sutter in 2003, alleging his competitor had infringed on his copyright by stealing monument designs. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2004.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disputed Claims\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their sentencing memorandum for Yee earlier this month, prosecutors traced the arms smuggling discussions between the FBI's undercover agent, Yee and Keith Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August 2013, the memorandum recounts, Jackson told the agent that \"Yee was associated with a Russian who was an international arms dealer. Jackson said the Russian arms dealer was currently shipping large stockpiles of weapons to the Philippines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2013, the memorandum says, Jackson told the undercover agent \"the Russian had access to 'containers' full of weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few days later, the agent is said to have given $5,000 to Jackson to set up a meeting with the Russian. On Dec. 19, Yee and Jackson met \"an individual whom the FBI identified, was Russian, and whom the FBI had reason to believe was connected to arms trafficking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In conversations in January 2014, Yee had lots more to say about his Russian contact, prosecutors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yee said the Russian 'has things you guys want,' \" the sentencing memorandum says. \"Yee cautioned however, that doing business with the Russians is not easy, and not for the 'faint of heart.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, prosecutors say, Yee referred to his Russian contact as \"Leon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader and his son said in a joint interview Tuesday that Yee and Jackson stopped by for lunch in December 2013 and asked them for a donation. They said they had never met Jackson before or since and that Yee and Leon were not close. They said two FBI agents visited them a few weeks after Yee's arrest in 2014, but they've had no further contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They came to my shop,\" said Leon Rader. \"They asked me about Leland Yee. I told them I cannot say about this man, nothing else but good things. The only interaction I had with him was when I built the war memorial in San Francisco, and he was behind the World War memorial, and I was dealing with him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leon Rader created the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usssanfrancisco.org/USS%20Frisco%20Memorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">USS San Francisco\u003c/a> memorial in 2003. Michael Rader said Yee had stopped by on a couple occasions after their memorial dealings, when he was running for office. He said it was \"poor timing\" on their part that they had donated to Yee only once, three weeks before he was arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>End of the Arms Deal\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2014, the undercover agent met with Yee and Jackson and told them that he wanted to meet Yee's Russian contact. Yee reassured him that the source was the “real deal,” but he wouldn’t talk about weapons openly at the first meeting. The agent said he wanted “a container of AKs,” but Yee encouraged him to start with smaller deals and said the Russian would not do business with him unless Yee was involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee said he was “agnostic” about the weapons, according to recordings quoted in prosecutors' filings. “People want to get whatever they want to get,” said Yee. “Do I care? No, I don’t care. People need certain things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors said in their separate sentencing memorandum for Keith Jackson that the Russian -- now identified by Yee's attorney as Rader -- “was apparently too savvy to actually sit down face-to-face\" with the undercover agent. The document says the agent had been trying to get Yee and Jackson to set up a face-to-face meeting with the Russian \"to ... determine if he really intended to deal in weapons.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution's sentencing memorandums for Yee and Jackson insist arms trafficking through Yee's Russian contact was a real possibility. Prosecutors say the FBI amassed evidence documenting Yee and Jackson's meeting with the Russian, including phone records and surveillance photographs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the arms deal were not a real potential source for weapons, there would have been no need for the defendants to hold meetings with [the Russian],\" prosecutors argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Rader dimisses the notion his father is an arms merchant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Let me ask you something,\" Michael Rader said. \"How many international arms dealers do you know who spend seven days a week hauling stone?\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10875660/leland-yees-russian-arms-dealer-a-colma-tombstone-carver-is-named-in-court-filings","authors":["byline_news_10875660"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_425","news_139","news_6058"],"featImg":"news_132332","label":"news_6944"},"news_10869446":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10869446","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10869446","score":null,"sort":[1455826033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee","title":"Prosecutors Seek 8 Years in Prison for State Sen. Leland Yee","publishDate":1455826033,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\"Manipulative schemer\"? Or exemplary public servant maneuvered into a legal corner by an \"extremely talented, well trained, and very skillful\" undercover FBI agent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the competing portraits of state Sen. Leland Yee that emerge in sentencing memorandums filed Wednesday in his federal corruption case. Yee faces sentencing next week after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleading guilty on corruption charges\u003c/a> that included bribery, extortion, money laundering and arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 47-page memorandum filed Wednesday, (\u003ca href=\"#prosecutorsmemo\">embedded below\u003c/a>) prosecutors urged U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer to sentence Yee to eight years in prison -- a severe sentence they argue will serve as a warning to other lawmakers who may be tempted to break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's attorney, James Lassart, is seeking a sentence of no more than five years and three months. He's asking Breyer to consider an even lighter punishment so that Yee, 67, can remain home and care for his ill wife, who has suffered from lymphoma and other ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution memo portrays Yee -- who served on San Francisco's school board and Board of Supervisors and represented the city in both houses of the Legislature -- as a cynical grafter who repeatedly betrayed the public trust. The memo also questions Yee's personal integrity, alleging that at one point, the senator took sexual advantage of a woman constituent who had come to him for advice in a child-custody dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Response: Agent 'Brilliantly Hooked' Yee Associate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 35-page response by Lassart -- also \u003ca href=\"#yeememo\">embedded below\u003c/a> -- suggests that while Yee accepts responsibility for his actions, he was steered into an impossible legal position by an undercover FBI agent who \"brilliantly hooked and secured\" Yee's co-defendant, San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">the 2014 federal complaint\u003c/a> against Yee and Jackson -- filed in conjunction with the racketeering investigation into \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-guilty-on-all-162-counts-in-racketeering-murder-trial\" target=\"_blank\">now-convicted Chinatown crime boss Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow\u003c/a> -- prosecutors said the pair sought a series of bribes from undercover agents and engaged in extortion as they tried to retire the debt from Yee's unsuccessful 2011 run for mayor and to raise funds for his 2014 campaign for California secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart says that one of those agents, whom he repeatedly describes as \"extremely skillful,\" essentially turned Jackson into his employee. Jackson, in turn, was unwittingly put to work entangling Yee in influence-peddling schemes and an arms-trafficking deal. Yee's participation, Lassart argues, was indirect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their memo, prosecutors dismiss the notion that Yee was not an active participant in the crimes to which he's pleaded guilty. They describe Yee as \"a manipulative schemer\" who had Jackson act as the front man for his dealings with the agents in an attempt to insulate himself from responsibility:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Yee may argue to the court ... that much of the time he was unwitting as to what Jackson was doing with and saying to the undercover agents. Yee may argue he was out of the loop and did not authorize Jackson to speak for him. ... However, the overwhelming evidence, as found in the recordings of Yee himself, demonstrates that Jackson consulted with him about all conversations with the undercovers pertaining to Yee, took instructions from Yee, and did Yee’s bidding.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In arguing for a lighter sentence than the eight years sought by prosecutors, Lassart points to Yee as a man of \"exemplary character\" who has performed \"exemplary service to the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a career spent as a child psychologist, youth advocate and public school proponent, Lassart says, Yee went on to the Legislature, where he \"fought for children, mental health services, working families, seniors, education, open government, consumer protection, civil rights, and the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Altruistic or Cynical?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart's filing notes Yee's legislation to aid victims of domestic violence, bills that won plaudits from several women's organizations. The government memorandum goes out of its way to suggest Yee's activity on behalf of women was \"cynical, rather than altruistic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo cites an intercepted 2013 conversation with an unidentified male in which Yee mentioned a human-trafficking bill he had sponsored. The document says Yee and the other man discussed -- \"perhaps jokingly\" -- visiting prostitutes in San Mateo. Yee asked whether the women were \"human trafficked in there\" and mentioned his pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the other man said, \"It happens all over the place,\" the prosecutors' memo quotes Yee as saying, “Shit, man, do you think I care, man? All I care about is that the women love me. That’s all I care. I don’t care if it works, the bill works or not, so long as the women think I support women, that’s all I care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution document also alleges that Yee \"took advantage\" of a woman constituent, identified only as \"Friend A,\" who came to him for help with a personal problem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friend A told the FBI that at a booth at a festival in 2012, she saw a pamphlet about Yee that referred to domestic violence. She believed that Yee might be able to assist her with court proceedings involving custody of her young daughter. Friend A returned to the festival the next day and saw Yee at the booth. She began to cry when she told Yee about her situation. Yee asked how he could reach her and she provided her cell number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got home, there were already two messages from Yee. In one, he said he was coming to see her and wanted her home address. Friend A called Yee and told him the next day was more convenient. Yee asked what time her children went to bed, and ended up coming to Friend A’s home later that night. Friend A told the FBI that when they met at her home that evening, Yee told her he would try to help and then kissed her. She reported that from that point on, the relationship was sexual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee proceeded to assist Friend A by referring her to an attorney. He also loaned her $10,000 in cash. Friend A used half of the money for an attorney, and still had the remainder when Yee was arrested. She told the FBI she felt the money was “dirty money” and used it to pay off debts. Friend A reported that she felt used by Yee, and when he got angry, he would ask for the money back. She said this scared her because she had ongoing court proceedings. Friend A told the agents she felt taken advantage of, but needed help and was very grateful to Yee. She felt she had no one else to turn to and her daughter was safe because of Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An objective view of these events suggests that Yee took advantage of a constituent who was vulnerable and in need for his own selfish purposes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yee, Jackson and two other defendants are scheduled to be sentenced next Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"prosecutorsmemo\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/299675995/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_94594\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"yeememo\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/299683137/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_86240\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Prosecution portrays longtime S.F. politico as cynical grafter whose corruption case should serve as a warning to lawmakers tempted to break the law.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1455835009,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":1160},"headData":{"title":"Prosecutors Seek 8 Years in Prison for State Sen. 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Or exemplary public servant maneuvered into a legal corner by an \"extremely talented, well trained, and very skillful\" undercover FBI agent?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those are the competing portraits of state Sen. Leland Yee that emerge in sentencing memorandums filed Wednesday in his federal corruption case. Yee faces sentencing next week after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/01/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds\" target=\"_blank\">pleading guilty on corruption charges\u003c/a> that included bribery, extortion, money laundering and arms trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 47-page memorandum filed Wednesday, (\u003ca href=\"#prosecutorsmemo\">embedded below\u003c/a>) prosecutors urged U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer to sentence Yee to eight years in prison -- a severe sentence they argue will serve as a warning to other lawmakers who may be tempted to break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's attorney, James Lassart, is seeking a sentence of no more than five years and three months. He's asking Breyer to consider an even lighter punishment so that Yee, 67, can remain home and care for his ill wife, who has suffered from lymphoma and other ailments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution memo portrays Yee -- who served on San Francisco's school board and Board of Supervisors and represented the city in both houses of the Legislature -- as a cynical grafter who repeatedly betrayed the public trust. The memo also questions Yee's personal integrity, alleging that at one point, the senator took sexual advantage of a woman constituent who had come to him for advice in a child-custody dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Response: Agent 'Brilliantly Hooked' Yee Associate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 35-page response by Lassart -- also \u003ca href=\"#yeememo\">embedded below\u003c/a> -- suggests that while Yee accepts responsibility for his actions, he was steered into an impossible legal position by an undercover FBI agent who \"brilliantly hooked and secured\" Yee's co-defendant, San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\" target=\"_blank\">the 2014 federal complaint\u003c/a> against Yee and Jackson -- filed in conjunction with the racketeering investigation into \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/08/raymond-shrimp-boy-chow-guilty-on-all-162-counts-in-racketeering-murder-trial\" target=\"_blank\">now-convicted Chinatown crime boss Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow\u003c/a> -- prosecutors said the pair sought a series of bribes from undercover agents and engaged in extortion as they tried to retire the debt from Yee's unsuccessful 2011 run for mayor and to raise funds for his 2014 campaign for California secretary of state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart says that one of those agents, whom he repeatedly describes as \"extremely skillful,\" essentially turned Jackson into his employee. Jackson, in turn, was unwittingly put to work entangling Yee in influence-peddling schemes and an arms-trafficking deal. Yee's participation, Lassart argues, was indirect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their memo, prosecutors dismiss the notion that Yee was not an active participant in the crimes to which he's pleaded guilty. They describe Yee as \"a manipulative schemer\" who had Jackson act as the front man for his dealings with the agents in an attempt to insulate himself from responsibility:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Yee may argue to the court ... that much of the time he was unwitting as to what Jackson was doing with and saying to the undercover agents. Yee may argue he was out of the loop and did not authorize Jackson to speak for him. ... However, the overwhelming evidence, as found in the recordings of Yee himself, demonstrates that Jackson consulted with him about all conversations with the undercovers pertaining to Yee, took instructions from Yee, and did Yee’s bidding.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In arguing for a lighter sentence than the eight years sought by prosecutors, Lassart points to Yee as a man of \"exemplary character\" who has performed \"exemplary service to the community.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a career spent as a child psychologist, youth advocate and public school proponent, Lassart says, Yee went on to the Legislature, where he \"fought for children, mental health services, working families, seniors, education, open government, consumer protection, civil rights, and the environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Altruistic or Cynical?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lassart's filing notes Yee's legislation to aid victims of domestic violence, bills that won plaudits from several women's organizations. The government memorandum goes out of its way to suggest Yee's activity on behalf of women was \"cynical, rather than altruistic.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo cites an intercepted 2013 conversation with an unidentified male in which Yee mentioned a human-trafficking bill he had sponsored. The document says Yee and the other man discussed -- \"perhaps jokingly\" -- visiting prostitutes in San Mateo. Yee asked whether the women were \"human trafficked in there\" and mentioned his pending legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the other man said, \"It happens all over the place,\" the prosecutors' memo quotes Yee as saying, “Shit, man, do you think I care, man? All I care about is that the women love me. That’s all I care. I don’t care if it works, the bill works or not, so long as the women think I support women, that’s all I care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution document also alleges that Yee \"took advantage\" of a woman constituent, identified only as \"Friend A,\" who came to him for help with a personal problem:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Friend A told the FBI that at a booth at a festival in 2012, she saw a pamphlet about Yee that referred to domestic violence. She believed that Yee might be able to assist her with court proceedings involving custody of her young daughter. Friend A returned to the festival the next day and saw Yee at the booth. She began to cry when she told Yee about her situation. Yee asked how he could reach her and she provided her cell number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got home, there were already two messages from Yee. In one, he said he was coming to see her and wanted her home address. Friend A called Yee and told him the next day was more convenient. Yee asked what time her children went to bed, and ended up coming to Friend A’s home later that night. Friend A told the FBI that when they met at her home that evening, Yee told her he would try to help and then kissed her. She reported that from that point on, the relationship was sexual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee proceeded to assist Friend A by referring her to an attorney. He also loaned her $10,000 in cash. Friend A used half of the money for an attorney, and still had the remainder when Yee was arrested. She told the FBI she felt the money was “dirty money” and used it to pay off debts. Friend A reported that she felt used by Yee, and when he got angry, he would ask for the money back. She said this scared her because she had ongoing court proceedings. Friend A told the agents she felt taken advantage of, but needed help and was very grateful to Yee. She felt she had no one else to turn to and her daughter was safe because of Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An objective view of these events suggests that Yee took advantage of a constituent who was vulnerable and in need for his own selfish purposes.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yee, Jackson and two other defendants are scheduled to be sentenced next Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"prosecutorsmemo\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/299675995/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_94594\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"yeememo\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https://www.scribd.com/embeds/299683137/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"undefined\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_86240\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10869446/prosecutors-seek-8-years-in-prison-for-state-sen-leland-yee","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_139","news_38"],"featImg":"news_10393263","label":"news_6944"},"news_10585873":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10585873","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10585873","score":null,"sort":[1435906885000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-rule-of-law-california-politics-podcast","title":"The Rule of Law: California Politics Podcast","publishDate":1435906885,"format":"audio","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>From high drama in court to putting a new law on the books, this week's theme in the world of California politics seems to have a decidedly legal feel to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week's California Politics Podcast is chock full of news and notes. We discuss the ruling on the fate of independent redistricting from the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the justices agreeing to hear the case that could determine the future political power of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also discuss Gov. Jerry Brown's quick signature on the bill limiting most vaccine exemptions for school children. And a glimpse at the impact of former state Senator Leland Yee's guilty plea to federal racketeering charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm joined by Anthony York of the Grizzly Bear Project and KQED News' Marisa Lagos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The nation's highest court's impact on California politics, and an ex-legislator pleads guilty in court.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1435880806,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":7,"wordCount":142},"headData":{"title":"The Rule of Law: California Politics Podcast | KQED","description":"The nation's highest court's impact on California politics, and an ex-legislator pleads guilty in court.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"The Rule of Law: California Politics Podcast","datePublished":"2015-07-03T07:01:25.000Z","dateModified":"2015-07-02T23:46:46.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10585873 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10585873","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/03/the-rule-of-law-california-politics-podcast/","disqusTitle":"The Rule of Law: California Politics Podcast","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/RDnews/2015/07/PolPodcastJuly3.mp3","path":"/news/10585873/the-rule-of-law-california-politics-podcast","audioDuration":1961000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>From high drama in court to putting a new law on the books, this week's theme in the world of California politics seems to have a decidedly legal feel to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week's California Politics Podcast is chock full of news and notes. We discuss the ruling on the fate of independent redistricting from the U.S. Supreme Court as well as the justices agreeing to hear the case that could determine the future political power of the California Teachers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We also discuss Gov. Jerry Brown's quick signature on the bill limiting most vaccine exemptions for school children. And a glimpse at the impact of former state Senator Leland Yee's guilty plea to federal racketeering charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm joined by Anthony York of the Grizzly Bear Project and KQED News' Marisa Lagos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10585873/the-rule-of-law-california-politics-podcast","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_13","news_17793"],"tags":["news_18286","news_17599","news_139","news_17714","news_282"],"featImg":"news_10508407","label":"news_7051"},"news_10584265":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10584265","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10584265","score":null,"sort":[1435778714000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds","title":"Former State Sen. Leland Yee Pleads Guilty to Racketeering","publishDate":1435778714,"format":"standard","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:25 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Former state Sen. Leland Yee, facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison on corruption charges, pleaded guilty today to a single felony count of racketeering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee acknowledged his guilt in a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, who accepted the plea and set sentencing for Oct. 21. He declined to comment as he left court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212884920\" params=\"auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veteran San Francisco Democrat, who was running for California secretary of state when he was arrested on a long list of corruption charges in early 2014, faces a maximum term of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Read his \u003ca href=\"#plea\">plea agreement below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had previously pleaded not guilty to felony corruption, racketeering and arms trafficking charges contained in a 13-count federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counts alleged that he had agreed to trade favors, such as supporting legislation or lobbying for state contracts, in exchange for campaign contributions; that he had agreed to secure a Senate proclamation for accused Chinatown gangster Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow -- again, in exchange for a donation; and that he had offered to help an undercover FBI agent secure firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The count to which Yee pleaded guilty -- conspiracy to conduct the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity -- accused the state senator of using his mayoral and secretary of state campaign committees for \"criminal fundraising and campaign activities.\" Those activities included wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, trafficking in firearms and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment and affidavits filed in the case, Yee and a political consultant he worked with, Keith Jackson, became ensnared in a federal investigation targeting Chow in 2011. The indictment recounts a long series of encounters between Yee and Jackson -- who believed they were dealing with business people seeking favors. In fact, their would-be business partners were undercover FBI agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson also entered a guilty plea to the racketeering charges and, like Yee, faces a 20-year maximum prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson's son, Brandon Jackson, and a sports agent, Marlon Sullivan, entered guilty pleas to a separate conspiracy count and face shorter potential sentences -- 48 to 96 months for Brandon Jackson, 60 to 96 months for Sullivan. The two Jacksons and Sullivan will also be sentenced Oct. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and the other three defendants had been scheduled to go on trial in just a few weeks. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_28415152/leland-yee-pleads-guilty-corruption-case\" target=\"_blank\">noted by Howard Mintz\u003c/a> of the San Jose Mercury News, Wednesday's plea deals mean few of the details of Yee's operation will become public -- at least for now:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee's plea deal avoids a detailed exploration at trial of his political dealing, and likely reduced his potential punishment, while the government will not be forced to detail the scope of an undercover FBI probe that crossed paths with numerous high-profile figures who were not implicated in any wrongdoing, including former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Yee as he arrived at the San Francisco Federal Building this morning:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"plea\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nhttps://twitter.com/nbcbayarea/status/616304512756772865\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Read Yee's plea agreement below. Click the links to read plea agreements for \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/270211515/USA-v-Keith-Jackson-Plea-Agreement\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Jackson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/270211513/USA-v-Brandon-Jamelle-Jackson-Plea-Agreement\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Jackson\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/270211516/USA-v-Marlon-Darrell-Sullivan-Plea-Agreement\" target=\"_blank\">Marlon Sullivan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[scribd id=270211514 key=key-Nce6iZIIIGZms0o41gnR mode=scroll]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our original post, from the Associated Press: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Leland Yee, the San Francisco Democrat charged last year in a sweeping organized crime and public corruption case, may have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, who previously has pleaded not guilty to bribery, money laundering and other felony charges, was scheduled to go on trial in late July along with three co-defendants. But a judge has scheduled change-of-plea hearings for the four on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abraham Simmons, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, said he could not provide details of a possible deal or say what the hearing would mean for Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't confirm who is going to say what and who is going to do what,\" Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's attorney, James Lassart, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI arrested Yee and 19 others in 2014 during a series of raids throughout the Bay Area. He is accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from an alleged Chinatown gang leader in exchange for providing help from Sacramento. The FBI also alleged that Yee, who was running for secretary of state at the time, conspired to connect an undercover agent with an international arms dealer in exchange for campaign contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three other defendants with hearings scheduled Wednesday are Keith Jackson, a former San Francisco school board member who acted as Yee's consultant and fundraiser; Jackson's son Brandon; and Marlon Sullivan, a sports agent. Their attorneys also did not immediately return calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests were the culmination of the FBI's eight-year investigation of Raymond Chow, the elected head of a Chinese-American association called Ghee Kung Tong. The FBI alleges the association was a racketeering enterprise and that undercover agents laundered $2.6 million in cash from illegal bookmaking through the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow has pleaded not guilty to money laundering and other charges.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Veteran S.F. politico was to go on trial later this month on corruption and racketeering charges.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1435801478,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":908},"headData":{"title":"Former State Sen. 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Leland Yee, facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison on corruption charges, pleaded guilty today to a single felony count of racketeering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee acknowledged his guilt in a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer, who accepted the plea and set sentencing for Oct. 21. He declined to comment as he left court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='450'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212884920&visual=true&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212884920'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The veteran San Francisco Democrat, who was running for California secretary of state when he was arrested on a long list of corruption charges in early 2014, faces a maximum term of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Read his \u003ca href=\"#plea\">plea agreement below\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had previously pleaded not guilty to felony corruption, racketeering and arms trafficking charges contained in a 13-count federal indictment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The counts alleged that he had agreed to trade favors, such as supporting legislation or lobbying for state contracts, in exchange for campaign contributions; that he had agreed to secure a Senate proclamation for accused Chinatown gangster Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow -- again, in exchange for a donation; and that he had offered to help an undercover FBI agent secure firearms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The count to which Yee pleaded guilty -- conspiracy to conduct the affairs of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity -- accused the state senator of using his mayoral and secretary of state campaign committees for \"criminal fundraising and campaign activities.\" Those activities included wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, trafficking in firearms and money laundering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the indictment and affidavits filed in the case, Yee and a political consultant he worked with, Keith Jackson, became ensnared in a federal investigation targeting Chow in 2011. The indictment recounts a long series of encounters between Yee and Jackson -- who believed they were dealing with business people seeking favors. In fact, their would-be business partners were undercover FBI agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson also entered a guilty plea to the racketeering charges and, like Yee, faces a 20-year maximum prison sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson's son, Brandon Jackson, and a sports agent, Marlon Sullivan, entered guilty pleas to a separate conspiracy count and face shorter potential sentences -- 48 to 96 months for Brandon Jackson, 60 to 96 months for Sullivan. The two Jacksons and Sullivan will also be sentenced Oct. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee and the other three defendants had been scheduled to go on trial in just a few weeks. As \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_28415152/leland-yee-pleads-guilty-corruption-case\" target=\"_blank\">noted by Howard Mintz\u003c/a> of the San Jose Mercury News, Wednesday's plea deals mean few of the details of Yee's operation will become public -- at least for now:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee's plea deal avoids a detailed exploration at trial of his political dealing, and likely reduced his potential punishment, while the government will not be forced to detail the scope of an undercover FBI probe that crossed paths with numerous high-profile figures who were not implicated in any wrongdoing, including former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's Yee as he arrived at the San Francisco Federal Building this morning:\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"plea\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"616304512756772865"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Read Yee's plea agreement below. Click the links to read plea agreements for \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/270211515/USA-v-Keith-Jackson-Plea-Agreement\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Jackson\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/270211513/USA-v-Brandon-Jamelle-Jackson-Plea-Agreement\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Jackson\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/270211516/USA-v-Marlon-Darrell-Sullivan-Plea-Agreement\" target=\"_blank\">Marlon Sullivan\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ciframe\n class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\"\n src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/270211514/content?start_page=1&view_mode=&access_key=key-Nce6iZIIIGZms0o41gnR\"\n title=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/270211514\"\n data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_270211514\"\n width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\n \u003ca class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__scribdShortcode__scribd_footer\"\n href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/270211514\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View this document on Scribd\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Alex Emslie of KQED News contributed to this post.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Our original post, from the Associated Press: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. Leland Yee, the San Francisco Democrat charged last year in a sweeping organized crime and public corruption case, may have reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee, who previously has pleaded not guilty to bribery, money laundering and other felony charges, was scheduled to go on trial in late July along with three co-defendants. But a judge has scheduled change-of-plea hearings for the four on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abraham Simmons, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, said he could not provide details of a possible deal or say what the hearing would mean for Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can't confirm who is going to say what and who is going to do what,\" Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's attorney, James Lassart, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI arrested Yee and 19 others in 2014 during a series of raids throughout the Bay Area. He is accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from an alleged Chinatown gang leader in exchange for providing help from Sacramento. The FBI also alleged that Yee, who was running for secretary of state at the time, conspired to connect an undercover agent with an international arms dealer in exchange for campaign contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three other defendants with hearings scheduled Wednesday are Keith Jackson, a former San Francisco school board member who acted as Yee's consultant and fundraiser; Jackson's son Brandon; and Marlon Sullivan, a sports agent. Their attorneys also did not immediately return calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The arrests were the culmination of the FBI's eight-year investigation of Raymond Chow, the elected head of a Chinese-American association called Ghee Kung Tong. The FBI alleges the association was a racketeering enterprise and that undercover agents laundered $2.6 million in cash from illegal bookmaking through the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow has pleaded not guilty to money laundering and other charges.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10584265/former-state-sen-leland-yee-may-have-struck-plea-deal-with-feds","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188","news_13"],"tags":["news_139","news_38"],"featImg":"news_132332","label":"news_6944"},"news_10393174":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10393174","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10393174","score":null,"sort":[1420063248000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories","title":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories","publishDate":1420063248,"format":"standard","headTitle":"FaultLines | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":7051,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Let's be honest: Who doesn't like a good old-fashioned annual rite of passage? Spring cleaning. The Fall Classic. Swallows returning to Capistrano. (Well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/bringing-back-the-famous-swallows-of-mission-san-juan-capistrano\" target=\"_blank\">maybe not that one these days, it seems\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a list of top news stories to wrap up a year. Which brings us to this list covering California politics in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, well, an odd even-numbered year. Statewide elections usually spark some big stories and important debates, but 2014 was rather tepid compared with previous electoral cycles. Even so, there were a few big moments that won't be soon forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So without further ado...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393263\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS9444_leelandyee-20140326a-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Quote of the Year: \"People Need Certain Things\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were casting a movie about a political scandal and you needed a legislator on whom to base a character accused of corruption ... Leland Yee wouldn't have been your guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democrat was a fairly high-profile member of the California Legislature, but not a flamboyant one or one who was the subject of gossip and rumor. And that's probably why \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\" target=\"_blank\">the news in March landed with such a bombshell\u003c/a>, when the 66-year old former psychologist was arrested and charged with not only corruption, but also with allegedly participating in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons into the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony was impossible to miss: gun trafficking charges against a Democrat who made a name for himself \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/leland-yee-crusaded-for-gun-control-before-indictment-on-gun-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">as a fierce advocate of gun control\u003c/a>, a politician who championed \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/29/business/la-fi-ct-facetime-20100429\" target=\"_blank\">a nationally debated California law to ban children from buying violent video games\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, that infamous quote contained in the FBI affidavit, one attributed by investigators to Yee during a secret meeting that focused on the potential smuggling of weapons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yee's political career pretty much ended the same day the detailed allegations were made public, part of a bigger FBI investigation into the Chinese immigrant community of San Francisco. 2014 also saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25440366/state-senate-vote-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Yee and two other state senators suspended over ethics charges\u003c/a>: Ron Calderon, the focus of \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/02/21/ron-calderon-indicted-by-feds-for-bribery/5704253/\" target=\"_blank\">his own FBI corruption sting\u003c/a>, and Rod Wright, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-rod-wright-20140913-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">convicted of perjury in a case involving whether he actually lived in his legislative district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Wright's case was closed in 2014. We're still waiting to see what happens to Calderon and Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates.\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-1440x928.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top Political Actor in a Dramatic Role: California's Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's leave it to Gov. Jerry Brown to explain this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a drought,\" said Brown in September. \"And that's got everybody's attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was in 2014, where California's unquenched thirst helped break the logjam on several water policy fights that had been dragging on for years. Brown's quip came \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/16/drought-becomes-powerful-political-tool-for-jerry-brown-and-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\">just after he signed the state's first-ever regulations on the use of groundwater\u003c/a>, something unthinkable in years past. The year also saw lawmakers negotiate, and voters approve, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/1/\" target=\"_blank\">a $7.5 billion bond package\u003c/a> for water reliability and storage -- a package where politicos had long fretted about the public's distaste for new borrowing but one that \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/ballot-measures/prop/1/\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately received a ''yes\" vote from 67 percent of the voters who cast ballots on Nov. 4\u003c/a>. Campaign strategists say it's simple: The drought was a huge motivating factor, something voters didn't need a political campaign to explain to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393504\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg\" alt=\"Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, Calif.\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-1440x1002.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Elementary School in Milpitas. (Charla Bear/KQED) \u003ccite>(Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Simmering Fight Over Teacher Tenure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision made by a Los Angeles judge on June 10 had the potential for huge political impact: California's tenure rules for K-12 teachers were found to violate the constitutional rights of students to equal protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A huge ruling, yes, but one that surprisingly caused only a small series of political rumbles in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 pages of findings in \u003ca href=\"http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tenative-Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vergara v. California\u003c/a> by Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed down a scathing indictment of the system of tenure -- one that Treu said unfairly disadvantages students from communities of color or from low-income families:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It therefore cannot be gainsaid that the number of grossly ineffective teachers has a direct, real, appreciable, and negative impact on a significant number of California students, now and well into the future for as long as said teachers hold their positions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ruling was immediately praised by critics of the tenure system and self-described reform groups, but panned by teachers unions and state officials who argued the judge overstated the number of \"bad\" teachers on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> didn't land a more powerful political punch in 2014 is hard to say. While it did play \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/27/how-teacher-tenure-figures-into-the-november-election/\" target=\"_blank\">a real role in one statewide race -- the contest for superintendent of public instruction -- and a few legislative races\u003c/a>, there was no groundswell of action or outrage. Even the decision by Gov. Jerry Brown to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-governor-appeals-vergara-20140829-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">appeal the ruling\u003c/a> (a decision he tried to defend on legal grounds during the political season's only gubernatorial debate) extracted no real political price. Nonetheless, \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> resonated in education and government circles and could continue to make news depending on the outcome of the appeals process in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Box Office Sleeper: The Kashkari Kid\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No candidate made a bigger bet on public outcry over the \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> ruling than Neel Kashkari, the Republican newcomer hoping to topple a sitting governor with a household name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393606\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393606\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg\" alt=\"Kashkari, the longshot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate.\" width=\"400\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-800x732.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kashkari, the long-shot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/21/why-kashkari-is-proud-of-tarp-doesnt-trumpet-it\" target=\"_blank\">the former U.S. Treasury official\u003c/a> who bested a more conservative Republican to win the second of two spots on the fall ballot, had always insisted that education would be one of only two priorities should he somehow win the race for governor (the other being job creation). But he didn't seem to talk much \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kashkari-schools-20140422-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">about his education agenda\u003c/a>, as he seemed to be much more energized about schools after \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> swept into the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the only debate between the two men, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjuxVjPbMk\" target=\"_blank\">held on Sept. 4 and sponsored by KQED along with three other media organizations\u003c/a>, Kashkari unloaded on Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to appeal the ruling. One month later, he released a television ad that never mentioned the tenure court case by name -- opting instead for the shock value of a drowning kid and his GOP rescuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZFdmwqG3Q?rel=0&w=560&h=315]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad also highlighted the challenge for the Kashkari campaign team: finding something ... anything ... that would stick to Jerry Brown. The candidate began the race in January talking about poverty; then he lampooned \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/13/kashkari-hits-jerry-brown-s-crazy-train/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown's support for the \"crazy train\"\u003c/a> of high-speed rail; then he went back to poverty by \u003ca href=\"Neel%20Kashkari%20takes%20campaign%20to%20the%20streets,%20literally%20-%20LA%20...\" target=\"_blank\">posing as a homeless man on the streets of Fresno\u003c/a>; then a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/kashkari-brown-coddled-pr_n_5863100.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks on the Brown political dynasty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on it went, even though polls suggested either that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/23/poll-jerry-brown-draws-california-republican-votes\" target=\"_blank\">voters weren't impressed\u003c/a> or were simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/40-of-voters-unaware-Jerry-Brown-is-seeking-5865196.php\" target=\"_blank\">oblivious to the entire campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lingering question: Does Neel Kashkari, a man with now at least a modicum of statewide name ID, run for something else in 2016 or 2018?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393612\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg\" alt=\"California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-1440x999.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ban That May End Up Getting Banned Itself\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 100 communities across California that have imposed some kind of limit or ban on single-use plastic bags in recent years. So, it's not surprising that a statewide effort would be launched in Sacramento. Still, few legislative fights in 2014 were more intense, or more chock-full of backroom wheeling and dealing, as the one that ended with legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown to impose a statewide plastic bag ban starting in July. When enacted, the ban will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/29/plastic-bag-ban-california/\" target=\"_blank\">the first of its kind in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or will it? The plastic bag industry \u003ca href=\"http://www.bagtheban.com/news/item/statement-from-the-american-progressive-bag-alliance-on-intent-to-repeal-se\" target=\"_blank\">quickly ponied up $3 million to gather signatures for a referendum\u003c/a> asking voters to overturn the law -- and they appear to have enough to make that happen in November 2016. That would also mean the new law is on hold, allowing the plastic bag industry to keep selling its products for at least an additional 16 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five separate versions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_270&sess=PREV&house=B&author=padilla_%3Cpadilla%3E\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 270\u003c/a> were considered before all was said and done at the state Capitol. Grocers were given a concession of 10 cents for every paper bag, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2014/01/24/15676/onetime-foes-now-back-statewide-plastic-bag-ban/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Democrats (who helped kill a similar effort in 2013) signed on\u003c/a> after efforts were promised to help mitigate any job losses at plastic bag manufacturing plants. The governor played the final card, surprising at least a few political watchers by agreeing to sign the bill. Now, its fate is unclear -- as even more cities across California prepare to enact their own bag bans in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-1440x959.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suppose We Held An Election ... And No One Showed Up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a state where it's become common to watch millions of voters skip elections, it wasn't surprising that 2014 -- a year without a presidential race and not a lot of widely anticipated ballot propositions -- was going to end with low turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But boy, who knew it would be this bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The June and November elections each set records for voter apathy: Only 25.17 percent of registered voters cast ballots in June, 42.2 percent in November. Never have any regular primary or gubernatorial elections in California seen such tepid interest from the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/California-politicians-picked-by-few-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">turnout was even worse in a number of individual legislative and congressional districts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393723\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393723\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png\" alt=\"No on Prop. 46 television ad\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-1440x1008.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM.png 1990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No on Prop. 46 Television Ad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Political Power of No\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low turnout didn't do much to help backers of any of \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">the six propositions on November's ballot\u003c/a>. In fact, the 2014 election cycle proved once again how much easier it is to \u003cem>kill\u003c/em> a ballot measure than it is to \u003cem>pass\u003c/em> one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most-talked-about initiatives, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/45/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 45\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/46/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 46\u003c/a>, were a textbook case of death by a thousand cuts. Opponents had more money and an easier message: The measures were too complicated, poorly drafted, clever Trojan horses that really had an ulterior motive. Prop. 45, the measure to boost the regulatory power of the state insurance commissioner over health care rates, was a rebuke to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who championed the proposal. Prop. 46, the fight over doctor drug testing and medical malpractice awards, was a lawyers-versus-doctors smackdown that landed on the ballot after \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/01/22/4758601/\" target=\"_blank\">the two sides failed to reach any kind of deal in the Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark DiCamillo, the longtime director of the nonpartisan Field Poll, has long joked that if he ever hung up his pollster badge and became a political campaign consultant, he'd only take on clients who wanted to defeat initiatives. \"No\" is where the easy money is, it seems. And combined, the Prop. 45/Prop. 46 opposition campaigns raised more than $111 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393727\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393727\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-800x705.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-1440x1269.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's Stay Together, Loving You Whether ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some day years from now, you'll see it at an auction: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/07/states16_04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a bright crimson-colored, custom tie -- one with a multi-colored map of California sliced into six new state configurations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you'll say to yourself, \"Oh yeah, that Six Californias thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't meant to be, at least not in 2014. The owner of that tie, Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper, came up short in his quirky quest to ask Californians to go their separate ways. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/plan-to-split-california-six-ways-fails-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">Not only did his split-it-six-ways plan fail to make the fall ballot\u003c/a>, but Draper's hired guns failed to even collect enough valid signatures to get it on the ballot in 2016. And that's after he sank almost $5.3 million of his own cash into the endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeptics doubted Draper was serious. Politicos mused that he was trying to get his name out there for a future run for statewide office. (But which state? Ah, the jokes). And \u003ca href=\"http://verdict.justia.com/2014/01/03/political-constitutional-questions-raised-tim-drapers-six-californias-plan-split-california\" target=\"_blank\">legal scholars said the initiative was absolutely unworkable and likely unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hey, at least he's still got that tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393729\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393729\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-1440x960.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tao of Jerry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, the hard-to-deny consensus big political winner in a year where Californians didn't even seem to want to \u003cem>think\u003c/em> about politics: Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown's 45-year political career is best left to biographies rather than end-of-the-year lists. But suffice it to say, in an year when the electorate didn't seem to want to embrace politics, the low-key style of Brown's third term as governor seemed to suit Californians just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it would be unfair to imply that Brown wasn't working hard behind the scenes to secure a fourth term. From beating back legislation at the state Capitol that didn't suit his finely honed persona of frugality ... to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/04/jerry-brown-re-election-bid-quiet-just-like-he-wants-it\" target=\"_blank\">the non-campaign campaign\u003c/a> that saw him preach propositions rather than himself ... Jerry Brown found a way to successfully match his political message to the electoral mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has an impeccable sense of timing,\" said the governor's top aide, Nancy McFadden, to a business group in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Yes, but perhaps he learned it from having a lousy sense of timing in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenewerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/people.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">1976\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/04/on_this_day_in_1980_jerry_brow.html\" target=\"_blank\">1980\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1982/10/24/page/30/article/jerry-brown-has-met-the-enemy-its-himself\" target=\"_blank\">1982\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117695/sidney-blumenthal-jerry-browns-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">1992\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Jerry Brown chooses to steer his governorship in the new year and beyond remains to be seen. But for now, he seems to like the course that he -- and California -- are on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's hoping he and the state's other political players make 2015 an interesting one to watch.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Our picks for the year's biggest stories in California politics and government.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1432324672,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":59,"wordCount":2405},"headData":{"title":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories | KQED","description":"Our picks for the year's biggest stories in California politics and government.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories","datePublished":"2014-12-31T22:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2015-05-22T19:57:52.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"10393174 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=10393174","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/31/a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories/","disqusTitle":"A Toast To 2014's Top California Political Stories","customPermalink":"a-toast-to-top-california-politics-news-of-2014/","path":"/news/10393174/a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Let's be honest: Who doesn't like a good old-fashioned annual rite of passage? Spring cleaning. The Fall Classic. Swallows returning to Capistrano. (Well, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/bringing-back-the-famous-swallows-of-mission-san-juan-capistrano\" target=\"_blank\">maybe not that one these days, it seems\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a list of top news stories to wrap up a year. Which brings us to this list covering California politics in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was, well, an odd even-numbered year. Statewide elections usually spark some big stories and important debates, but 2014 was rather tepid compared with previous electoral cycles. Even so, there were a few big moments that won't be soon forgotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So without further ado...\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393263\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS9444_leelandyee-20140326a-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation.\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee was accused of corruption in March 2014 as part of an FBI investigation. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Quote of the Year: \"People Need Certain Things\"\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you were casting a movie about a political scandal and you needed a legislator on whom to base a character accused of corruption ... Leland Yee wouldn't have been your guy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Democrat was a fairly high-profile member of the California Legislature, but not a flamboyant one or one who was the subject of gossip and rumor. And that's probably why \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/u/Leland-Yee-Firearms-Trafficking-FBI\" target=\"_blank\">the news in March landed with such a bombshell\u003c/a>, when the 66-year old former psychologist was arrested and charged with not only corruption, but also with allegedly participating in a scheme to smuggle illegal weapons into the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The irony was impossible to miss: gun trafficking charges against a Democrat who made a name for himself \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/26/leland-yee-crusaded-for-gun-control-before-indictment-on-gun-charges/\" target=\"_blank\">as a fierce advocate of gun control\u003c/a>, a politician who championed \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/29/business/la-fi-ct-facetime-20100429\" target=\"_blank\">a nationally debated California law to ban children from buying violent video games\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, that infamous quote contained in the FBI affidavit, one attributed by investigators to Yee during a secret meeting that focused on the potential smuggling of weapons:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cem>\"People want to get whatever they want to get. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things.\"\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Yee's political career pretty much ended the same day the detailed allegations were made public, part of a bigger FBI investigation into the Chinese immigrant community of San Francisco. 2014 also saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_25440366/state-senate-vote-suspend-yee-calderon-and-wright\" target=\"_blank\">Yee and two other state senators suspended over ethics charges\u003c/a>: Ron Calderon, the focus of \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/02/21/ron-calderon-indicted-by-feds-for-bribery/5704253/\" target=\"_blank\">his own FBI corruption sting\u003c/a>, and Rod Wright, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-rod-wright-20140913-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">convicted of perjury in a case involving whether he actually lived in his legislative district\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only Wright's case was closed in 2014. We're still waiting to see what happens to Calderon and Yee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393266\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393266\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg\" alt=\"The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates.\" width=\"400\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8399_465639979-1440x928.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The historic drought helped loosen opposition to long-running political debates. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Top Political Actor in a Dramatic Role: California's Drought\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's leave it to Gov. Jerry Brown to explain this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got a drought,\" said Brown in September. \"And that's got everybody's attention.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so it was in 2014, where California's unquenched thirst helped break the logjam on several water policy fights that had been dragging on for years. Brown's quip came \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/16/drought-becomes-powerful-political-tool-for-jerry-brown-and-lawmakers\" target=\"_blank\">just after he signed the state's first-ever regulations on the use of groundwater\u003c/a>, something unthinkable in years past. The year also saw lawmakers negotiate, and voters approve, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/1/\" target=\"_blank\">a $7.5 billion bond package\u003c/a> for water reliability and storage -- a package where politicos had long fretted about the public's distaste for new borrowing but one that \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/maps/ballot-measures/prop/1/\" target=\"_blank\">ultimately received a ''yes\" vote from 67 percent of the voters who cast ballots on Nov. 4\u003c/a>. Campaign strategists say it's simple: The drought was a huge motivating factor, something voters didn't need a political campaign to explain to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393504\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393504\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg\" alt=\"Randall Elementary School in Milpitas, Calif.\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-400x278.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-800x557.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4633_HarryMendez_Milpitas_6-e1419988578986-1440x1002.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randall Elementary School in Milpitas. (Charla Bear/KQED) \u003ccite>(Charla Bear/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong> Simmering Fight Over Teacher Tenure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision made by a Los Angeles judge on June 10 had the potential for huge political impact: California's tenure rules for K-12 teachers were found to violate the constitutional rights of students to equal protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A huge ruling, yes, but one that surprisingly caused only a small series of political rumbles in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 16 pages of findings in \u003ca href=\"http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tenative-Decision.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Vergara v. California\u003c/a> by Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu handed down a scathing indictment of the system of tenure -- one that Treu said unfairly disadvantages students from communities of color or from low-income families:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"It therefore cannot be gainsaid that the number of grossly ineffective teachers has a direct, real, appreciable, and negative impact on a significant number of California students, now and well into the future for as long as said teachers hold their positions.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The ruling was immediately praised by critics of the tenure system and self-described reform groups, but panned by teachers unions and state officials who argued the judge overstated the number of \"bad\" teachers on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> didn't land a more powerful political punch in 2014 is hard to say. While it did play \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/27/how-teacher-tenure-figures-into-the-november-election/\" target=\"_blank\">a real role in one statewide race -- the contest for superintendent of public instruction -- and a few legislative races\u003c/a>, there was no groundswell of action or outrage. Even the decision by Gov. Jerry Brown to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-governor-appeals-vergara-20140829-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">appeal the ruling\u003c/a> (a decision he tried to defend on legal grounds during the political season's only gubernatorial debate) extracted no real political price. Nonetheless, \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> resonated in education and government circles and could continue to make news depending on the outcome of the appeals process in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Box Office Sleeper: The Kashkari Kid\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No candidate made a bigger bet on public outcry over the \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> ruling than Neel Kashkari, the Republican newcomer hoping to topple a sitting governor with a household name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393606\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393606\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg\" alt=\"Kashkari, the longshot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate.\" width=\"400\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-400x366.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127-800x732.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12018_CAJC115_Governor-California-Debate12891-e1419997708127.jpg 855w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kashkari, the long-shot candidate for governor, during the Sept. 4 gubernatorial debate. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP) \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kashkari, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/21/why-kashkari-is-proud-of-tarp-doesnt-trumpet-it\" target=\"_blank\">the former U.S. Treasury official\u003c/a> who bested a more conservative Republican to win the second of two spots on the fall ballot, had always insisted that education would be one of only two priorities should he somehow win the race for governor (the other being job creation). But he didn't seem to talk much \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-kashkari-schools-20140422-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">about his education agenda\u003c/a>, as he seemed to be much more energized about schools after \u003cem>Vergara\u003c/em> swept into the news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the only debate between the two men, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKjuxVjPbMk\" target=\"_blank\">held on Sept. 4 and sponsored by KQED along with three other media organizations\u003c/a>, Kashkari unloaded on Gov. Jerry Brown's decision to appeal the ruling. One month later, he released a television ad that never mentioned the tenure court case by name -- opting instead for the shock value of a drowning kid and his GOP rescuer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/pEZFdmwqG3Q?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/pEZFdmwqG3Q?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ad also highlighted the challenge for the Kashkari campaign team: finding something ... anything ... that would stick to Jerry Brown. The candidate began the race in January talking about poverty; then he lampooned \u003ca href=\"http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/13/kashkari-hits-jerry-brown-s-crazy-train/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown's support for the \"crazy train\"\u003c/a> of high-speed rail; then he went back to poverty by \u003ca href=\"Neel%20Kashkari%20takes%20campaign%20to%20the%20streets,%20literally%20-%20LA%20...\" target=\"_blank\">posing as a homeless man on the streets of Fresno\u003c/a>; then a series of \u003ca href=\"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/22/kashkari-brown-coddled-pr_n_5863100.html\" target=\"_blank\">attacks on the Brown political dynasty\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on it went, even though polls suggested either that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/04/23/poll-jerry-brown-draws-california-republican-votes\" target=\"_blank\">voters weren't impressed\u003c/a> or were simply \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/40-of-voters-unaware-Jerry-Brown-is-seeking-5865196.php\" target=\"_blank\">oblivious to the entire campaign\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lingering question: Does Neel Kashkari, a man with now at least a modicum of statewide name ID, run for something else in 2016 or 2018?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393612\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393612\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg\" alt=\"California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016.\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-400x277.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-800x555.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS4645_101564736-1440x999.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's new law banning plastic bags may be on hold until a statewide referendum in 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty) \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Ban That May End Up Getting Banned Itself\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are more than 100 communities across California that have imposed some kind of limit or ban on single-use plastic bags in recent years. So, it's not surprising that a statewide effort would be launched in Sacramento. Still, few legislative fights in 2014 were more intense, or more chock-full of backroom wheeling and dealing, as the one that ended with legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown to impose a statewide plastic bag ban starting in July. When enacted, the ban will be \u003ca href=\"http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/29/plastic-bag-ban-california/\" target=\"_blank\">the first of its kind in the nation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or will it? The plastic bag industry \u003ca href=\"http://www.bagtheban.com/news/item/statement-from-the-american-progressive-bag-alliance-on-intent-to-repeal-se\" target=\"_blank\">quickly ponied up $3 million to gather signatures for a referendum\u003c/a> asking voters to overturn the law -- and they appear to have enough to make that happen in November 2016. That would also mean the new law is on hold, allowing the plastic bag industry to keep selling its products for at least an additional 16 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five separate versions of \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_270&sess=PREV&house=B&author=padilla_%3Cpadilla%3E\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 270\u003c/a> were considered before all was said and done at the state Capitol. Grocers were given a concession of 10 cents for every paper bag, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/blogs/politics/2014/01/24/15676/onetime-foes-now-back-statewide-plastic-bag-ban/\" target=\"_blank\">Latino Democrats (who helped kill a similar effort in 2013) signed on\u003c/a> after efforts were promised to help mitigate any job losses at plastic bag manufacturing plants. The governor played the final card, surprising at least a few political watchers by agreeing to sign the bill. Now, its fate is unclear -- as even more cities across California prepare to enact their own bag bans in 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS12918__MG_4249-1440x959.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voter turnout in 2014: historically low. (Katie Brigham/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Suppose We Held An Election ... And No One Showed Up?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a state where it's become common to watch millions of voters skip elections, it wasn't surprising that 2014 -- a year without a presidential race and not a lot of widely anticipated ballot propositions -- was going to end with low turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But boy, who knew it would be this bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The June and November elections each set records for voter apathy: Only 25.17 percent of registered voters cast ballots in June, 42.2 percent in November. Never have any regular primary or gubernatorial elections in California seen such tepid interest from the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/28/California-politicians-picked-by-few-voters/\" target=\"_blank\">turnout was even worse in a number of individual legislative and congressional districts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393723\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393723\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png\" alt=\"No on Prop. 46 television ad\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-400x280.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-800x560.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM-1440x1008.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/Screen-Shot-2014-12-30-at-10.19.30-PM.png 1990w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">No on Prop. 46 Television Ad\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Political Power of No\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low turnout didn't do much to help backers of any of \u003ca href=\"http://vote2014.sos.ca.gov/returns/ballot-measures/\" target=\"_blank\">the six propositions on November's ballot\u003c/a>. In fact, the 2014 election cycle proved once again how much easier it is to \u003cem>kill\u003c/em> a ballot measure than it is to \u003cem>pass\u003c/em> one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most-talked-about initiatives, \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/45/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 45\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/46/\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition 46\u003c/a>, were a textbook case of death by a thousand cuts. Opponents had more money and an easier message: The measures were too complicated, poorly drafted, clever Trojan horses that really had an ulterior motive. Prop. 45, the measure to boost the regulatory power of the state insurance commissioner over health care rates, was a rebuke to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, who championed the proposal. Prop. 46, the fight over doctor drug testing and medical malpractice awards, was a lawyers-versus-doctors smackdown that landed on the ballot after \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/story/news/politics/john-myers/2014/01/22/4758601/\" target=\"_blank\">the two sides failed to reach any kind of deal in the Legislature\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark DiCamillo, the longtime director of the nonpartisan Field Poll, has long joked that if he ever hung up his pollster badge and became a political campaign consultant, he'd only take on clients who wanted to defeat initiatives. \"No\" is where the easy money is, it seems. And combined, the Prop. 45/Prop. 46 opposition campaigns raised more than $111 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393727\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393727\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg\" alt=\"Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-400x352.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-800x705.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS8168_127726920-e1420007401985-1440x1269.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Draper, the author of the Six Californias initiative. (Max Morse/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let's Stay Together, Loving You Whether ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some day years from now, you'll see it at an auction: \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/07/states16_04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">a bright crimson-colored, custom tie -- one with a multi-colored map of California sliced into six new state configurations\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you'll say to yourself, \"Oh yeah, that Six Californias thing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn't meant to be, at least not in 2014. The owner of that tie, Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper, came up short in his quirky quest to ask Californians to go their separate ways. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/12/plan-to-split-california-six-ways-fails-to-make-ballot\" target=\"_blank\">Not only did his split-it-six-ways plan fail to make the fall ballot\u003c/a>, but Draper's hired guns failed to even collect enough valid signatures to get it on the ballot in 2016. And that's after he sank almost $5.3 million of his own cash into the endeavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skeptics doubted Draper was serious. Politicos mused that he was trying to get his name out there for a future run for statewide office. (But which state? Ah, the jokes). And \u003ca href=\"http://verdict.justia.com/2014/01/03/political-constitutional-questions-raised-tim-drapers-six-californias-plan-split-california\" target=\"_blank\">legal scholars said the initiative was absolutely unworkable and likely unconstitutional\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But hey, at least he's still got that tie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10393729\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10393729\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg\" alt=\"Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-400x266.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting-1440x960.jpeg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/12/RS10597_brownvoting.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Jerry Brown may have had the best year in politics of anyone in California. (Jeremy Raff/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Tao of Jerry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally, the hard-to-deny consensus big political winner in a year where Californians didn't even seem to want to \u003cem>think\u003c/em> about politics: Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jerry Brown's 45-year political career is best left to biographies rather than end-of-the-year lists. But suffice it to say, in an year when the electorate didn't seem to want to embrace politics, the low-key style of Brown's third term as governor seemed to suit Californians just fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it would be unfair to imply that Brown wasn't working hard behind the scenes to secure a fourth term. From beating back legislation at the state Capitol that didn't suit his finely honed persona of frugality ... to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/04/jerry-brown-re-election-bid-quiet-just-like-he-wants-it\" target=\"_blank\">the non-campaign campaign\u003c/a> that saw him preach propositions rather than himself ... Jerry Brown found a way to successfully match his political message to the electoral mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He has an impeccable sense of timing,\" said the governor's top aide, Nancy McFadden, to a business group in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Yes, but perhaps he learned it from having a lousy sense of timing in \u003ca href=\"http://www.thenewerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/people.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">1976\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/04/on_this_day_in_1980_jerry_brow.html\" target=\"_blank\">1980\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1982/10/24/page/30/article/jerry-brown-has-met-the-enemy-its-himself\" target=\"_blank\">1982\u003c/a> ... and \u003ca href=\"http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117695/sidney-blumenthal-jerry-browns-campaign\" target=\"_blank\">1992\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where Jerry Brown chooses to steer his governorship in the new year and beyond remains to be seen. But for now, he seems to like the course that he -- and California -- are on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's hoping he and the state's other political players make 2015 an interesting one to watch.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/10393174/a-toast-to-2014s-top-california-political-stories","authors":["232"],"programs":["news_7051"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_6310","news_30","news_139","news_4846","news_6989"],"featImg":"news_10393269","label":"news_7051"},"news_143007":{"type":"posts","id":"news_143007","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"143007","score":null,"sort":[1406340033000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-sen-leland-yee-faces-new-racketeering-conspiracy-charges","title":"State Sen. Leland Yee Faces New Racketeering, Conspiracy Charges","publishDate":1406340033,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-e1396641660590.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130744\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury in San Francisco has issued a revised indictment against state Sen. Leland Yee, who was first charged in March with corruption and arms-trafficking. Among the new allegations: Yee and an accomplice attempted to extort money from an unnamed National Football League team owner in exchange for a vote on pending legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment (\u003ca href=\"#yeeindictment\">embedded below\u003c/a>) recasts the case against the veteran legislator as a conspiracy in which he and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson allegedly used the senator's political committees as a racketeering operation that engaged in bribery, extortion and money-laundering. The document refers to the alleged Yee-Jackson operation as \"The Campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">the federal charges announced March 26\u003c/a>, the day Yee was arrested in connection with an FBI investigation targeting reputed Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow. Yee pleaded not guilty to the charges, which accused him of trading favors for donations to his 2011 campaign for mayor of San Francisco and 2014 campaign for California and also alleged he had agreed to facilitate arms purchases by an undercover FBI employee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new charges also allege that Yee and Jackson conspired to extract a payment from the owner of \"NFL Team A\" in exchange for supporting \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1309\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1309, a worker's compensation bill\u003c/a> that would benefit pro sports franchises. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment says that Yee and Jackson conspired to extort a payment after an undercover FBI employee identifed as \"UCE 4180\" told them he knew the owner of the unidentified Team A. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a meeting with the undercover employee, the indictment says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee explained that the owners of professional football had an interest in AB 1309, it was in the financial interest of AB 1309 to pass, and Yee held a key position on the Senate Committee that would considering AB 1309 because Yee controlled two votes on the committee. Yee also stated that the players on professional football teams opposed AB 1309. Yee told UCE 4180 that UCE 4180 should convey this information to the owner of NFL Team A and the owner of NFL Team A should contact Yee with an offer to help Yee. When UCE 4180 asked how much Yee's vote would cost, Yee responded, \"Oh no ... we gotta drag it out, man. We gotta juice this thing.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Yee and Jackson privately discussed approaching other teams and players' representative to see who would pay the most for Yee's vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also says that When UCE 4180 told Jackson that the NFL owner was willing to pay $60,000 for Yee's support for AB 1309, Jackson contacted Yee, then texted the FBI employee, \"Hey [UCE 4180], where [sic] all good on our end ... kj.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says UCE 4180 did not pay any money to Jackson or Yee in connection with the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nfl-claims-20140201-dto-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">which eventually passed\u003c/a>. Yee voted for the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised charges also detail an alleged Yee-Jackson conspiracy involving \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=e1cbdf51052fc8aa982b1af21275?bill_id=201320140SB309\" target=\"_blank\">SB 309, a bill that would extend the life of the California State Athletic Commission\u003c/a>, which has jurisdiction over professional and amateur boxing, kickboxing and other forms of full contact martial arts competitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says Yee and Jackson worked to persuade two supporters of the bill to make donations to the state senator in exchange for his yes vote on the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes a phone call in which Yee and Jackson discussed the alleged scheme:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee told Jackson that he spoke to an individual (hereafter \"Indivual A\") who had an interest in extending the existence of the CSAC and \"did a number\" on that person. Yee said he told Individual A that Yee intended to shut down the CSAC, but Individual A should hire Jackson to lobby Yee to vote to extend the CSAC. Jackson subsquently spoke to Individual A, who said he was fearful that Yee was going to vote against extending the life of the CSAC. Jackson told Individual A that he was willing to help, but would have to be paid. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment does not indicate whether Individual A or a second athletic commission supporter, Individual B, actually paid Yee or Jackson for the senators vote. Like AB 1309, SB 309 passed, again with Yee voting yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a call to Yee's attorney for comment on the additional charge was not immediately returned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"yeeindictment\">\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/235123442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_40186\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Revised indictment alleges veteran legislator plotted to shake down an NFL team owner. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1406340033,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":743},"headData":{"title":"State Sen. 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Leland Yee Faces New Racketeering, Conspiracy Charges","customPermalink":"2014/07/25/new-federal-charges-against-state-senator-leland-yee/","path":"/news/143007/state-sen-leland-yee-faces-new-racketeering-conspiracy-charges","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-e1396641660590.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/LeelandYee-640x450.jpg\" alt=\"Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130744\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leland Yee. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A federal grand jury in San Francisco has issued a revised indictment against state Sen. Leland Yee, who was first charged in March with corruption and arms-trafficking. Among the new allegations: Yee and an accomplice attempted to extort money from an unnamed National Football League team owner in exchange for a vote on pending legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment (\u003ca href=\"#yeeindictment\">embedded below\u003c/a>) recasts the case against the veteran legislator as a conspiracy in which he and San Francisco political consultant Keith Jackson allegedly used the senator's political committees as a racketeering operation that engaged in bribery, extortion and money-laundering. The document refers to the alleged Yee-Jackson operation as \"The Campaign.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment includes \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/reports-state-senator-leland-yee-under-arrest-for-corruption\" target=\"_blank\">the federal charges announced March 26\u003c/a>, the day Yee was arrested in connection with an FBI investigation targeting reputed Chinatown gang leader Raymond Chow. Yee pleaded not guilty to the charges, which accused him of trading favors for donations to his 2011 campaign for mayor of San Francisco and 2014 campaign for California and also alleged he had agreed to facilitate arms purchases by an undercover FBI employee. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the new charges also allege that Yee and Jackson conspired to extract a payment from the owner of \"NFL Team A\" in exchange for supporting \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1309\" target=\"_blank\">AB 1309, a worker's compensation bill\u003c/a> that would benefit pro sports franchises. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised indictment says that Yee and Jackson conspired to extort a payment after an undercover FBI employee identifed as \"UCE 4180\" told them he knew the owner of the unidentified Team A. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a meeting with the undercover employee, the indictment says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee explained that the owners of professional football had an interest in AB 1309, it was in the financial interest of AB 1309 to pass, and Yee held a key position on the Senate Committee that would considering AB 1309 because Yee controlled two votes on the committee. Yee also stated that the players on professional football teams opposed AB 1309. Yee told UCE 4180 that UCE 4180 should convey this information to the owner of NFL Team A and the owner of NFL Team A should contact Yee with an offer to help Yee. When UCE 4180 asked how much Yee's vote would cost, Yee responded, \"Oh no ... we gotta drag it out, man. We gotta juice this thing.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment also alleges that Yee and Jackson privately discussed approaching other teams and players' representative to see who would pay the most for Yee's vote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment also says that When UCE 4180 told Jackson that the NFL owner was willing to pay $60,000 for Yee's support for AB 1309, Jackson contacted Yee, then texted the FBI employee, \"Hey [UCE 4180], where [sic] all good on our end ... kj.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says UCE 4180 did not pay any money to Jackson or Yee in connection with the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nfl-claims-20140201-dto-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\">which eventually passed\u003c/a>. Yee voted for the legislation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revised charges also detail an alleged Yee-Jackson conspiracy involving \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml;jsessionid=e1cbdf51052fc8aa982b1af21275?bill_id=201320140SB309\" target=\"_blank\">SB 309, a bill that would extend the life of the California State Athletic Commission\u003c/a>, which has jurisdiction over professional and amateur boxing, kickboxing and other forms of full contact martial arts competitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment says Yee and Jackson worked to persuade two supporters of the bill to make donations to the state senator in exchange for his yes vote on the bill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment describes a phone call in which Yee and Jackson discussed the alleged scheme:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yee told Jackson that he spoke to an individual (hereafter \"Indivual A\") who had an interest in extending the existence of the CSAC and \"did a number\" on that person. Yee said he told Individual A that Yee intended to shut down the CSAC, but Individual A should hire Jackson to lobby Yee to vote to extend the CSAC. Jackson subsquently spoke to Individual A, who said he was fearful that Yee was going to vote against extending the life of the CSAC. Jackson told Individual A that he was willing to help, but would have to be paid. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The indictment does not indicate whether Individual A or a second athletic commission supporter, Individual B, actually paid Yee or Jackson for the senators vote. Like AB 1309, SB 309 passed, again with Yee voting yes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a call to Yee's attorney for comment on the additional charge was not immediately returned. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"yeeindictment\">\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"//www.scribd.com/embeds/235123442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"doc_40186\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/143007/state-sen-leland-yee-faces-new-racketeering-conspiracy-charges","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_6188"],"tags":["news_425","news_139","news_6106"],"featImg":"news_130744","label":"news_6944"},"news_138603":{"type":"posts","id":"news_138603","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"138603","score":null,"sort":[1402383718000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate","title":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate?","publishDate":1402383718,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119704\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-e1385954353186.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images). \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three state senators in exile. Three explosive allegations of political wrongdoing. And now, three new rules that leaders of the state Senate hope will change both behavior around the state Capitol and public perception of that behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is time, I believe, that we reserve out full and undivided attention to the people's business,\" said state Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) during floor debate on Monday on the trio of new standing rules for the upper house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the rules is simply part of the operating structure of the Senate; none apply to the Assembly, and none have to be signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. As such, they are not binding in the same way as a state law. However, they take effect almost immediately, and any effort to rescind them would likely be questioned and criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules ban senators from holding political fundraising in the month leading up to the June 15 budget deadline, establish whistle-blower protections for staffers or others who see wrongdoing and create the position of an independent Senate ombudsman to investigate ethics complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ombudsman, said Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), is \"somebody whose job it is to prevent a problem before it becomes embarrassing to the individual, and most importantly, before it becomes embarrassing to the institution itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153739882&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house rules come in the wake of the indictments of two senators — Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) and Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) — earlier this year on separate charges of political corruption. They also come after a large fine by the state's campaign finance watchdog agency against \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/02/sacramento-lobbyist-kevin-sloat-faces-133500-fppc-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent lobbyist over political fundraisers hosted at his Sacramento home\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the measures \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sr_45_bill_20140514_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cautions senators from talking about pending legislation at parties or events\u003c/a> attended by interest group representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can do so very easily,\" said Steinberg during Monday's floor debate, \"by saying at the beginning of the event, 'There are certain things that we cannot talk about here at this event.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules formally take effect Aug. 1, which means that political fundraisers scheduled over the next few days are not affected. They also, as rules of the house, may be less vulnerable to legal challenges — most notably, the annual one-month fundraising ban and questions about the constitutional links between money and speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as senators agreed overwhelmingly to the new rules, they rejected a more stringent effort to curb fundraising. A bill to impose a campaign cash blackout in state law, authored by state Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), fell short of the needed super-majority vote on Monday — with a handful of Democrats and Republicans declining to vote when the roll was called.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Three new rules that leaders hope will change both behavior and perception around the state Capitol.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1402436095,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":476},"headData":{"title":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate? | KQED","description":"Three new rules that leaders hope will change both behavior and perception around the state Capitol.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate?","datePublished":"2014-06-10T07:01:58.000Z","dateModified":"2014-06-10T21:34:55.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"138603 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=138603","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/06/10/new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate/","disqusTitle":"New Ethics Rules: Heal Thyself, State Senate?","customPermalink":"06/10/2014/state-senate-adopts-new-ethics-rules/","path":"/news/138603/new-ethics-rules-heal-thyself-state-senate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_119704\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-e1385954353186.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-119704\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/12/RS5102_56531571-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images). \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Capitol, Sacramento (David Paul Morris/Getty Images).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three state senators in exile. Three explosive allegations of political wrongdoing. And now, three new rules that leaders of the state Senate hope will change both behavior around the state Capitol and public perception of that behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is time, I believe, that we reserve out full and undivided attention to the people's business,\" said state Sen. Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) during floor debate on Monday on the trio of new standing rules for the upper house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the rules is simply part of the operating structure of the Senate; none apply to the Assembly, and none have to be signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. As such, they are not binding in the same way as a state law. However, they take effect almost immediately, and any effort to rescind them would likely be questioned and criticized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules ban senators from holding political fundraising in the month leading up to the June 15 budget deadline, establish whistle-blower protections for staffers or others who see wrongdoing and create the position of an independent Senate ombudsman to investigate ethics complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ombudsman, said Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), is \"somebody whose job it is to prevent a problem before it becomes embarrassing to the individual, and most importantly, before it becomes embarrassing to the institution itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/153739882&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house rules come in the wake of the indictments of two senators — Sen. 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They also come after a large fine by the state's campaign finance watchdog agency against \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/02/sacramento-lobbyist-kevin-sloat-faces-133500-fppc-fine.html\" target=\"_blank\">a prominent lobbyist over political fundraisers hosted at his Sacramento home\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the measures \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sr_45_bill_20140514_introduced.htm\" target=\"_blank\">cautions senators from talking about pending legislation at parties or events\u003c/a> attended by interest group representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can do so very easily,\" said Steinberg during Monday's floor debate, \"by saying at the beginning of the event, 'There are certain things that we cannot talk about here at this event.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new rules formally take effect Aug. 1, which means that political fundraisers scheduled over the next few days are not affected. 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