Is Democrat Leland Yee a Full-Blown Gun-Runner for Russians and Islamic Terrorists?

Pajamas Media ^ | 03/27/2014 | Bryan Preston

[cloudmountain]

They're questioning a certain Mr. Ibling Doe but it's not yet conclusive.

As in "John Doe." Wow, of all the made-up names I ever heard, that's a winner...or loser.

YOU MADE THAT UP!!

[cloudmountain]

YES, typo, 1850. THANKS.

[cloudmountain]

And they tell us the Mafia is dead.

There will ALWAYS be a mafia. It's just a neat name that the Italians gave us.

Yakuza = Japanese mafia. STILL around.

[cloudmountain]

Did you go to the website that gave you the San Francisco voting record (from 1916) that showed the city voted DEMOCRAT consistently and for eons?

[cloudmountain]

I think that Yee would bargain with Satan himself if it gave him a "reasonable" profit.

Maybe I am misjudging him.

[untenured]

This is perhaps the most remarkable story in all my years of watching American politics. A leadership figure in the senate of America's most populous state is charged with being a major arms trafficker. (That he is pro-gun control is just lagniappe.)

I'd expect this in Equatorial Guinea (or in Russia for that matter), but I have a naive disposition to think that we're not like that. That it is not a bigger story is testimony to how useless/biased/timid the legacy media is in this country. If only a young female intern were involved.

[DPMD]

In a larger sense, the war on guns might just be a diversionary tactic to allow the anti-gun pols to make millions running guns on the sly. Wonder what the war on drugs would be shown to conceal?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Well, it was already in decline by then (the hippie infestation was in full tilt by 1968). I think “Vertigo” is a better example in 1958. I was last there in the early ‘90s where my leftist half-sister gave me instructions in protocol for dealing with the deranged homeless people. When the Mayor, Frank Jordan (1992-96) tried to clean it up, they sacked him for being a “meanie.”

[fieldmarshaldj]

That chart (nevermind the backwards colors) doesn’t tell you anything but the Presidential voting breakdown (if you’ll note, it tended to vote as the nation did until 1960 when it went hard-left and out of the mainstream).

San Francisco was a Republican city for a long time, there were NO Democrats elected Mayor from 1908 until 1964. The same went for the legislature. Casper Weinberger represented an urban SF district in the Assembly. Republicans were either competitive with or held one or both U.S. House seats up until the early 1970s. Again, it was only in the post-1960/64 era when the city moved out of the mainstream (more to the point, families with traditional values moved out or were displaced by singles with radical leftist politics).

[papertyger]

In a larger sense, the war on guns might just be a diversionary tactic to allow the anti-gun pols to make millions running guns on the sly.

Naw, they're just trying to give the American voters what they want....recognizing the majority of American voters are female.

[cloudmountain]

According to the chart the only GOP voting was in the 1920’s—OTHER THAN THOSE years the city ALWAYS voted Democrat. Can’t you READ?

[cloudmountain]

Mayors were HARDLY ever REAL Democrts or GOP. Local politics have little to do with the party at large and depend almost solely on WHO one knows and how much money s/he has. I believe the chart...the city has voted Democrat almost all its existence.

A few chump change GOP mayors DON'T make it a GOP city. I know. I'm GOP in a HUGELY Democrat city and I feel it every time I open a newspaper. I see it in the daily San Francisco newscasts. Please, I know my city. I've lived here most of my life.

[Vaduz]

And some are congress and senate.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I can only presume you’re having a bad morning.

Did you read what I wrote ? Please go back and read it again.

Pay close attention to the breakdowns: Presidential, Mayoral, Congressional, Legislative.

You’re only looking at ONE thing — Presidential — and you failed to note that SF voted as the nation did in virtually that entire period UNTIL after 1960.

[cloudmountain]

No doubt.

[cloudmountain]

Whatever.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m sorry, but that’s baloney. These were real GOP or Democrat Mayors. I’m VERY familiar with this city. Almost half my family lives there in or in the surrounding area.

Ignoring that there were NO Democrat Mayors from 1910 until 1964 fully makes my point. These were major players, from Sunny Jim Rolph (who became Governor) through to George Christopher (defeated in the 1966 primary for Governor by Reagan). Until Philadelphia fell in the ‘50s, it was one of the largest GOP cities in the nation.

When did you move to San Francisco ?

[fieldmarshaldj]

I don’t know why you’re acting hostile. I’m a political historian, I know this subject well.

[cloudmountain]

Born and bred here. Educated here. Did go to Berkeley for two years for my B.A. but commuted home on the weekends. My dad was ill. He ALMOST made it for my graduation. Not quite. He passed away three months before my graduation.
Worked here in the city until I retired last year. Worked 50 years...time to retire.
Own my own home here. I have my cemetery plot already, the other half of my husband's (He was born and bred in Oakland. He was white.), in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Are you from the Peninsula, East Bay or Marin?

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m presuming you’re at or around 70, which means you remember when the city still voted for Republicans.

I’m not from California, I’m from Tennessee. Most of my relatives chose to move to the Bay Area of their own accord. My half-sister was born in Washington State, but aside from a short period there, has lived in California her entire life (more than 50 years) in the East Bay (Alameda & Berkeley). My father lived there in the ‘60s when he was in the Navy and also got his degree at UC-Berkeley. He saw MLK, Jr. speak there.