Senator Ron Calderon, D-30th District
Senator Leland Yee, D-8th District
Senator Rod Wright, 35th District
Three California Democratic Party State Senators, Ron Calderon, Rod Wright, and Leland Yee are either convicted or under felony indictment for crimes that are grounds under Article IV Section 5 of the California Constitution for expulsion from the legislature. So why did the State Senate elect to “suspend” them from office-especially when there’s no such thing as “suspension” in the California Constitution?
Well, with this so-called “suspension” they will continue to draw their $95,291.00 a year salaries!!!!!!
Article IV, Section 5(a) provides that:
Each house shall judge the qualifications and elections of its Members and, by rollcall vote entered in the journal, two thirds of the membership concurring, may expel a Member.
FBI raiding Ron Calderon’s Senate office
There is no authority even mentioned, alluded to or anywhere else contemplated in the California Constitution for a so-called “suspension.” They’re just making this up as they go to justify these guys continuing to draw their pay. The Constitution is clear: if the Senate wants to, it can expel members. There’s no provision allowing them to suspend or otherwise discipline them (other than slapping them on the wrist with a censure).
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The Detectives Diary is an innovative tool combining Private Investigation and Journalism. In 1984, Steve Harvey's Los Angeles Times "Around the Southland" Column entitled Jan Tucker's program of providing low-cost "Opposition Research" services to indigent and working class candidates for public office, "Take Cover: Hired Mudslinger Rides into Town." A 1996 Los Angeles Times article by Henry Chu carried a sub-headline identifying Tucker as a "P.R. Guru." In November 2012, Tucker became Criminal Justice Columnist for Counter Punch Magazine and a commentator for Black Talk Radio.
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State Director--California League of Latin American Citizens, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
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