Posted on 03/27/2014 8:54:34 AM PDT by neverdem
SAN FRANCISCO -- Known for navigating the state Capitol's backrooms and this city's complicated political landscape, state Sen. Leland Yee now is accused of consorting with notorious felons, accepting money for his cash-strapped political campaigns in exchange for favors and promising undercover FBI agents he could deliver connections to international gun runners.
In a stunning development that almost certainly torpedoes Yee's quest for statewide office, the San Francisco Democrat wound up glum and disoriented in a federal courtroom Wednesday. The politician who introduced anti-gun-violence legislation is now charged with trafficking in firearms and public corruption in an FBI undercover operation that could land him in prison for years...
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Described on the news today as a “rising star for the Democrats” in California
ROFL
Oh, Yee of little ethics.
Some of these politicians think they can do anything in the name of politics and winning.
More like a sputtering sparkler now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=yee
Note the "almost" in this sentence...if you're a Dem, I guess there's never anything that really torpedoes your quest for office.
Government at all levels is corrupt to the core and some people still can’t figure it all out.
Funny how most start in politics, making careers off the tax payers and come out millionaires with multiple gold plated government pensions..
Heard California Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg screaming this morning over the radio for Yee to resign.
Let’s see how this plays out...
Leland Ye
That pos is a prime example of why we need to destroy the RAT party...they are stinkin’ vermin, parasites, the worst of the worst of humanity (although I don’t consider any RAT human)...
This guy pissed me off to no end for years...a class A douche in the extreme. This is why my response to his arrest is so visceral...
I want him tied to a pole and shot with the same weapons he worked to take away from us...while we watch. Hell, I’d even pay to be on the squad...
Yee is currently running for California secretary of state and had planned to run for mayor of San Francisco.
Hope this is the END of his political career, LOL...but thought the same thing about Marion Barry. Surely a crack-smoking mayor couldn’t be elected again...right??
Are you kidding?
How many in government resigned, were fired or were criminally prosecuted when it was revealed the U.S. government turned their spy machine on law abiding American people?
I could go on and on....
He’s a democrat, so it’s OK. Watch the media bury this one as quickly as they can.
Someone posted here a few weeks back saying “liberals deliberately and intentionally try to take guns from honest, law-abiding non-violent citizens and leave them in the hands of violent criminals.”
It was me. I was right.
This POS is anti Second Amemdment.
I wonder if Rush knows Yee is out on bail?
Got caught without plausable deniability? Fail to make a payoff to his Democratic bosses? Didn't hit his bribe quota for the quarter two quarters in a row?
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