Hmmmm... I seem to remember a SIMILAR case that happened recently, where an Attorney General had taken campaign donations from a corporation that he was charged with investigating, and in that case, HE recused himself - to avoid the appearance of impropriety...
From http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_36.asp:
There would therefore SEEM to be a precedent, but perhaps it only applies to Attorneys General with CHARACTER.January 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft, who announced today that he will recuse himself from the Justice Department’s criminal probe of fallen energy giant Enron, raised a total of $57,499 from the company for his failed 2000 Senate campaign. Nearly half of that total -- $25,000 – was given by Enron CEO Kenneth Lay to Ashcroft’s joint fund fundraising committee in the form of soft money. The Ashcroft Victory Committee also raised another $25,000 in soft money directly from Enron Corp., bringing the committee’s total take from Enron to $50,000...
The Clintoons for about 8 years supposedly returned campaign money and gifts when caught in something illegal or just stinky. I doubt if any of that money was ever returned.
When do leftwing liberals like Lockyer lie to us!
From my POV out here in flyover?
Really quite clear & very simple, indeed.
It was -- & correct me if I'm wrong -- The PEOPLE of the state of CA who wanted and then elected, this baffoon, to be their Gov.
They got'em, too; in spades.
And for Heaven's sake!
Don'tcha be discounting y'all getting another term of this thieving-weasel, either!!
HA!
Why that screwed-up Lamestream dream-spin machine's at work 24&7 on the guy's behalf to deflect, obfuscate, redirect & redefine everything the imbecile goofed up -- or caught red-handed doing -- during his first go-around.
Before they're finished -- and, they've not eeeeeven begun yet -- this one may very well turn out to be a potential Democratic candidate for POTUS!!
You'll know that though, when you start hearing all kinds of talk about 'em erecting a statue of the clown at the capitol, in Sacramento.
Yea, to celebrate his, "Tremendous Accomplishments" during his terms as CA's political CEO??
That's not me talking, either; what that is though, is a plain, ol' fact of life in 2002.
So I repeat; don't laugh too hard, quite yet.
...or methinks you'd be failing to recognize the sheer depth of stupidity many of your CA neighbors possess.