Separated at Birth?
Posted on 03/30/2008 7:15:55 PM PDT by SmithL
State Sen. Carole Migden's growing campaign finance problems caught up with her today when delegates to the California Democratic Party's convention overwhelmingly refused to endorse her for re-election.
Migden, who's locked in a tough three-way race with San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno and former San Rafael Assemblyman Joe Nation for the San Francisco/Marin County/Sonoma County Senate seat, managed to grab the local endorsement Saturday after a raucous campaign that saw chanting crowds of competing supporters marching through the San Jose convention center.
While the convention delegates typically quickly ratify the local endorsements, Leno, who has been running against Migden for more than a year, managed to collect more than enough signatures Saturday night to force the entire convention to vote on the endorsement.
That was bad news for Migden. While the former San Francisco supervisor has plenty of friends in her district from her years as local party chair and her time in the state Assembly and on the state Board of Equalization, her history of driving problems and financial troubles didn't play well with delegates from elsewhere in the state.
Last year, Migden received two years probation on a reckless driving charge. Earlier this month, she agreed to pay a $350,000 fine to the state Fair Political Practices Commission for a variety of campaign finance violations, including illegal personal use of campaign funds. It was the largest fine ever assessed by the campaign watchdogs.
While Migden admitted the violations, she argued that they were the result of sloppy bookkeeping rather than any effort to hide the campaign money.
But last week, the FPPC sued Migden for $9 million, arguing that she had willfully violated campaign finance rules over a number of years.
Migden "is not worthy of endorsement by the California Democratic Party," . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Not than her competition is any better, but I do take delight in watching this drama unfold.
state Democratic Party convention in San Jose.
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This would explain the strange odor in the area the last few days..
Bubba was there this morning.. telling everyone to put some ice on it,, uhh,, I mean ‘chill’..
Ha.....the infamous State Board of Equilization......made the gestapo look like girl scouts....
I guess all those ex CA businesses and numerous mom and pop small businesses driven out will be pleased.
Seems the dims have cornered the market for Schardenfreude.
for some strange reason, the first thing that came across my mind was “midget” fails to win state Democratic Party endorsement. Looked again to find out otherwise.
Carry On
Nothing to see here
no, probably just that same garlic smell we get every now and then courtesy of the self-proclaimed garlic capital of the world (gilroy)
Oh I know that smell well,, I have never been to the garlic fest,, I get my fill directly just breathing it from the air for a few days in the summer.
I don’t normally go downtown much either and made sure I didn’t this weekend..
Separated at Birth?
She should threaten to crash her car into them ...
That picture of her is waaaaaayyy too flattering. You should see her in person.
Nightmares, I tell I’m going to have nightmares...
I am sad to say she is my state senator. Anyone would be better than her
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