State Treasurer Bill Lockyer hunkers down as sex, drug scandal unfolds

In the past week, producers for "Inside Edition" and the "Dr. Phil" show have reached out to state Treasurer Bill Lockyer.

Lockyer, a 70-year-old elder statesman of Capitol politics, finds himself mired in personal controversy and the subject of media attention after his wife said she was injured in a violent assault and acknowledged undergoing treatment for chemical dependency.

The latest twist: She also made a sex tape with the methamphetamine user she says attacked her, a development reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and confirmed by The Bee.

Nadia Lockyer, 40, remains at a rehab center after allegedly suffering a Feb. 3 assault at a Newark hotel. An Alameda County supervisor, she said in a statement that "interpersonal violence is something that can affect anyone, and I am glad this experience is in my past."

"Alcoholism and addiction," she said, "are diseases from which many of us suffer, and unfortunately, I have not been spared."

Longtime friends said it was an unfortunate turn in the life of Bill Lockyer, a state lawmaker for a quarter-century before serving as attorney general and now treasurer. They also expressed concern for the Hayward couple's 8-year-old son.

"Everybody knows someone who's a loved one who's had personal problems," said Patrick Johnston, a former Democratic legislator who served with Lockyer in the Assembly and Senate. "It would be easier to work through those problems outside of public scrutiny, but in elected office there is an inevitable component of revealing things, which other people don't have to go through."

Lockyer himself told the Chronicle in a letter to the editor that the attention is "painful ... but fair. We are elected officials."

Somebody oughta check this out.

Dollars to donuts the sex-starved Mrs Lockyer (married to old man Bill who apparently couldnt cut the mustard) put the drug-addled boyfriend on the county payroll in a no-show job.

Probably getting paid for his "sexual services" w/

<><> a six-figure county paycheck,

<><>credit card, expense account,

<><> tax-subsidized travel to "county conferences at resort motels" with Mrs L,

<><> tax-paid cars, bonuses, benefits, and other tax-paid subsidies.

Lockyer bankrolled his wife’s campaign for supervisor with $1.5 million from his own campaign coffers, a practice political watchdogs haves tried to end. “It’s a priority of ours that we can see and track where all our money’s going,” Common Cause’s Phillip Ung said. “I can’t point to another instance where that amount of money has been used in a local race,” Ung said.

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WHERE DID MR L GET THE MONEY TO BACK THE WIFE? IS HE THAT WELL-PAID? Bill Lockyer donated $1.1 million to his wife's campaign, which allowed her to outspend her opponents.

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Here's some popular campaign funding frauds:

* Instructing a campaign volunteer to forge the handwriting of campaign donors on donor contribution forms required by the Campaign Finance Board.

* Offering to reimburse an individual for a donation to the campaign.

* Instructing campaign volunteers, and others, not to accept consecutively numbered money orders as donations to evade detection about shady donations.

* Discussing ways to conceal information about bundlers.

* Working closely with bundlers on fund-raising events in which donors were illegally reimbursed for their contributions.

* Impeding investigations by failing to produce subpoenaed records in an apparent attempt to evade detection.

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