We just need to make her and Perata car pool together. It is the arrogance of political power that bugs me. The "Do you know who I am?" stuff. Unfortunately most of the people running I'd never vote for. And the ones that I would vote for won't run. It is not exclusive to any one party. I wish they would stop spending my money like a ship load of drunken sailors. On second thought, I appologize to drunken sailors. They at least would feel some remorse the next day and understand that it was wrong. Peas --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl: This place got a pool?
Ty: Pool and a pond....... Pond be good for you.
Yes many are drunk on the power while with others it's more like an acid trip. As for spending it's all about getting what they want, after all it's not their money.---------------That's just my opinion, but I could be Wrong.
Pay the fine out of campaign funds? That doesn't sound like much of a fine to me. Maybe she should have been fined personally as well.
Speaking of Sacramento politics, the next Assembly member for Lamorinda will effectively be chosen at the June statewide election. How many voters in this area even know who the candidates are, or where they stand on the issues? I guess they have all written Lamorinda off.
"Kiddie Porn King" Leno Triumphant - For Now... The ugly fight between 'Kiddie Porn King Mark Leno and Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden has hit bottom (pun intended) and started digging deeper in the dirt.
Smidgen - who once boasted upon becoming Chair of the Senate Appropriations committee: " Anybody who wants $5 is going to have to come to this Dyke and Beg for it" (this before the "Ghost Vote" and Freeway Rampage incidents) will have paid about $500K all totaled for various illegal acts during campaigns - which is just a Smidgen of chump change when compared to the Funds shoveled towards this New York Carpetbagger / Lavender Mafiosa by the Weimar Kalifornia Lobbies looking to wallow at her personal tax trough.
Still - The "Kiddie Porn King" may have won a phyrric victory, if the main outcome is to turn the Dyke Hatemonger Coven in Sodom by the Sea against him (more than even their traditional hatred of Men - even Homo-Anal Males), as they have proven the more powerful of the two homosex political power clusters - given that Leno's Coprophile Cult of Feces Focused Homo-Anal Perversions keeps on buggering themselves to death at a much greater rate..
Best keep quiet about it though, wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia," what with everything else going around and all.
Ohso
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Calif. campaign watchdog commission fines state lawmaker $350,000
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, (AP) -- The state's political ethics commission has approved a record $350,000 fine for a state senator who admitted repeatedly violating California's campaign finance laws.
The Fair Political Practices Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to impose the penalty on Sen. Carole Migden. FPPC officials said it was the largest fine ever levied by the commission in its 33-year history. Migden, a San Francisco Democrat, signed a stipulation on Monday admitting 89 violations of the state's Political Reform Act from 2003 to 2007, including using more than $16,000 in campaign donations for personal purposes.
Other violations included failing to report tens of thousands of dollars in contributions on time, understating more than $236,000 in campaign receipts and nearly the same amount in expenditures, failing to keep proper records and failing to spell out credit card charges.
Ross Johnson, a former state senator who chairs the commission, said Migden's violations showed her "complete disdain" for California's campaign finance laws.
James Harrison, an attorney representing Migden, said Tuesday that the violations stemmed from the senator's focus on her legislative duties and her battle with leukemia.
Harrison said Migden conducted her own review of her campaign finances after she was fined $16,000 by the commission in 2006 for failing to file timely campaign reports. She then voluntarily reported additional violations to the FPPC, Harrison said.te
Commissioner Robert Leidigh cast the only vote against the fine. He objected to an arrangement that gives Migden up to a year to pay $250,000 of the penalty, saying the commission should order her to pay all the money immediately.
Migden already has paid $100,000 out of her own money rather than tapping campaign funds.
A commission spokesman, Roman Porter, said staff members could not recall another case in which anyone had paid that high a fine out of their own pocket.
The FPPC's action doesn't end Migden's troubles with the FPPC. She is suing the commission for the right to use $670,000 in an old campaign account for her primary election fight against two fellow Democrats, Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco and former Assemblyman Joe Nation of San Rafael.
DiFi & $5 Smidgen - A Pair to Draw To... The need to replenish the war chest of Power Dyke / Legislative Lavender Mafiosa - Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden, in the wake of the most recent chump change fines for her illegal acts, has stirred the heavyweights of the Democrap Machine to beat the bushes for more contributions.
Hence Di Fi (Senator Diane Feinstein) is showing her solidarity (and lack of concern for campaign ethics) by standing alongside State Senator Smidgen - who (before the Ghost Vote & Freeway Rampage incidents) boasted upon becoming Chair of the Senate Appropriations committee: "Anybody who wants $5 is going to have to come to this Dyke and Beg for it."
Bravo Di Fi - this probably gets you off the hook with the Dyke Coven after having a "Pink Brick" thrown at her by the Log Packin Republicans after certain ungood comments....
Although I expect that the Coprophile Caucus of "Kiddie Porn King" Mark Leno may be less than enthused at the quick replenishment of $5 Smidgen's campaign coffers after such a supreme effort to empty them.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
The ugly fight for a State Senate seat between "Kiddie Porn King" / termed out assemblyman - Mark Leno, and current Senator Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden has truly hit bottom (pun intended) and started digging deeper in the dirt.
Smidgen - who once boasted upon becoming Chair of the Senate Appropriations committee: " Anybody who wants $5 is going to have to come to this Dyke and Beg for it" (this before the "Ghost Vote" and Freeway Rampage incidents) will have paid about $500K all totaled for various illegal acts during recent campaigns - which is just a Smidgen of Chump Change compared to the political action funds shoveled towards this New York Carpetbagger / Lavender Mafiosa by the various Weimar Kalifornia Lobbies looking to wallow at her personal tax trough.
Still - The "Kiddie Porn King" Leno, who filed the original complaint, may have won a phyrric victory, particularly if the main outcome is to turn the Dyke Hatemonger Coven in Sodom by the Sea against him (more than even their traditional hatred of Men - even their ostensible Homo-Anal Male 'allies'); as they have proven to be the more powerful of the two homosex political power clusters in the Democrap Machine - given that Leno's Coprophile Cult of Homo-Anal Perversions keeps on buggering themselves to death at a much greater rate.
None of which gives any problems to another Frisco Icon - Di Fi (US Senator Diane Feinstein), who is happy to help Smidgen raise funds to pay fines and run campaigns, all as a sign of solidarity with the Twysted Systerhood. After all, it was the Homo-Anal contingent in the Log Packin Republicans who voted to throw a "Pink Brick" at Di Fi not to long ago, and she is still probably smarting from it.
Best keep quiet about it though, wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia," what with everything else going around and all.
Ohso
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Calif. campaign watchdog commission fines state lawmaker $350,000
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, (AP) -- The state's political ethics commission has approved a record $350,000 fine for a state senator who admitted repeatedly violating California's campaign finance laws.
The Fair Political Practices Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to impose the penalty on Sen. Carole Migden. FPPC officials said it was the largest fine ever levied by the commission in its 33-year history. Migden, a San Francisco Democrat, signed a stipulation on Monday admitting 89 violations of the state's Political Reform Act from 2003 to 2007, including using more than $16,000 in campaign donations for personal purposes.
Other violations included failing to report tens of thousands of dollars in contributions on time, understating more than $236,000 in campaign receipts and nearly the same amount in expenditures, failing to keep proper records and failing to spell out credit card charges.
Ross Johnson, a former state senator who chairs the commission, said Migden's violations showed her "complete disdain" for California's campaign finance laws.
James Harrison, an attorney representing Migden, said Tuesday that the violations stemmed from the senator's focus on her legislative duties and her battle with leukemia.
Harrison said Migden conducted her own review of her campaign finances after she was fined $16,000 by the commission in 2006 for failing to file timely campaign reports. She then voluntarily reported additional violations to the FPPC, Harrison said.te
Commissioner Robert Leidigh cast the only vote against the fine. He objected to an arrangement that gives Migden up to a year to pay $250,000 of the penalty, saying the commission should order her to pay all the money immediately.
Migden already has paid $100,000 out of her own money rather than tapping campaign funds.
A commission spokesman, Roman Porter, said staff members could not recall another case in which anyone had paid that high a fine out of their own pocket.
The FPPC's action doesn't end Migden's troubles with the FPPC. She is suing the commission for the right to use $670,000 in an old campaign account for her primary election fight against two fellow Democrats, Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco and former Assemblyman Joe Nation of San Rafael.
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A fine ding: The $350,000 penalty that the California Fair Political Practices Commission hit state Sen. Carole Migden with Tuesday was the biggest ever levied against a state legislator - and it didn't take long for campaign rival Mark Leno's operatives to start figuring how to spin it.
"The most fined legislator in history. Eighty-nine violations. Thirty-five pages," said political consultant John Whitehurst, ticking off the possibilities.
Whitehurst works for Assemblyman Leno, who - along with former Assemblyman Joe Nation of Marin County - is challenging Migden for her District 3 Senate seat in the June 3 Democratic primary.
Migden, already on the ropes over her demolition derby driving habits, got dinged by the state watchdog agency for sloppy bookkeeping of campaign funds.
Its investigation, prompted by a complaint from Leno, also found that $16,317 of Migden's campaign cash spending had no "political, legislative or governmental purpose."
The commission hasn't said just how the money was used, but Migden attorney James Harrison told us some of it was just the senator inadvertently using the wrong credit card.
And "some of it was in a gray area that could have been argued was political, but the senator just decided to reimburse the money," Harrison said.
Migden says she'll pay the fine, and the five commissioners will vote Thursday on whether to OK the deal.
As for how Migden plans to respond to her opponents' impending attacks: "We're not saying anything until after the commission votes," said campaign manager Richie Ross. "Once that's done, then we'll deal with the rough and tumble of the politics."
By the way, before news of Migden's fine hit, women's groups sent out invites for a big $100- to $1,000-a-head fundraiser for the senator March 27 - with Sen. Dianne Feinstein as the featured guest.
Legislative Lavender Mafiosa Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden is back on the big money power dyke track after a few minor ms.steps, and eager to represent Sodom by the Sea Values in a Weimar Kalifornia Legislature that is truly not fit to pass gas, although they do pass the hat for 'contributions' quite well... Ohso
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Mateer & Ross SFGAte 3/23:
Migden's money: "It was a bad week personally and financially, but I'm not hiding in any shell," an upbeat state Sen. Carole Migden told us Friday as she headed off for another weekend of campaigning.
Brave words, considering the Democratic demolition derby queen had just shelled out $100,000 from her own pocket in the first installment of a $350,000 fine leveled last week by the state's Fair Political Practices Commission.
The commission found Migden, D-San Francisco, had committed 89 campaign-spending violations in recent years involving nearly $400,000, much of it credit card spending that was never itemized.
Migden, who was fined $94,000 by the same commission back in 2006, said she planned to pay the "bulk" of the latest fine with her own money. By law, she can dip into her campaign funds for the cash.
"I own a couple of condos," Migden said. "I'll take out a mortgage."
The question is whether Migden will keep paying politically in the June primary, when she faces a strong re-election challenge from Assemblyman Mark Leno and former Assemblyman Joe Nation.
"People don't really care about things like this - they care about the work you do," Migden said. "I can only face up to it, say I'm sorry and move on."
That - and find another $250,000.
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California: Campaigns waste lots of money JOHN DIAZ SFGate March 23, 2008 .
Unless, of course, your senator is Carole Migden of San Francisco. Her serial defiance of campaign reporting laws last week resulted in the largest fine in the history of the state's Fair Political Practices Commission: $350,000. Migden admitted to 89 violations of the Political Reform Act, including personal use of campaign funds.
Even more striking than the magnitude of the case against Migden is the evasiveness of her answers about the many thousands of dollars of credit card purchases in dispute. After all, the law is decidedly lenient about interpreting campaign expenses, as the jet-ski travel illustrates. Pressed for an example of a purchase that fell into what her attorney called "a gray area," Migden said, "I don't know."]
Now think about her answer. If you're Carole Migden, and you're locked in an extremely tough re-election campaign against two experienced and appealing politicians, Mark Leno and Joe Nation - and you are paying the first $100,000 installment of the fine out of your own pocket - don't you think you would know exactly what the expenditures in question were? Of course you would.
A potentially greater problem for Migden is the FPPC's attempt to prevent her from using $647,000 in surplus funds from her past campaigns for state Assembly and the Board of Equalization. Migden already spent more than $300,000 from those accounts, even though she failed to transfer the money before leaving the Assembly, as required by law, according to the FPPC. Migden has sued the FPPC, arguing that the state-imposed deadline was "arbitrary" and unconstitutionally infringed on her free speech.
A fundamental question is whether it's fair or ethical to use money from past campaigns, for other offices, in her 2008 Senate race. After all, some of the Democrats who contributed to her campaigns for Assembly or Board of Equalization may also be dedicated allies of Nation or Leno - and may prefer one of them over her this year. Migden danced around questions about the ethics involved in tapping funds from races that predated the current limits on donations. "We obeyed the law" is all she would say.
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I have met Ms. Migden personally. When she is not given her way or rules are not broken for her convience she can and did become very irrate. When I see her name it sends chills down my back every time I think of her "representing" Californians in the Stae government.
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California ethics agency sues state senator, seeks $9 million
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer March 25, 2008
California's political watchdog agency filed a $9 million lawsuit Tuesday against state Sen. Carole Migden, accusing the San Francisco Democrat of consistent and deliberate violations of the state's campaign finance laws.
"For years, Senator Migden has been deceiving the voters of California by filing inaccurate campaign statements, fabricating the elimination of committees and concealing campaign funds," Ross Johnson, chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said in a statement.
"The sophisticated and pervasive pattern of deception by her various controlled committees has been ongoing for more than five years."...
The commission's lawsuit comes a little more than a week after Migden admitted making a separate series of campaign violations and agreed to pay a record $350,000 fine.
The action was filed in federal court in Sacramento in response to a lawsuit Migden filed earlier this month over whether she could tap the $647,000 left over from her campaigns when she was in the state Assembly.
She is facing a tough primary challenge for re-election to the Senate from two fellow Democrats — Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco and former Assemblyman Joe Nation of San Rafael. She wanted to use the money from her Assembly account for the primary race in advance of the June 3 election...
"Migden, for the last five years, has illegally used surplus campaign funds without notifying anyone," Porter said. The commission's countersuit goes beyond the debate over use of the $647,000. It also accuses Migden of "massive instances of misreporting information and movement of money," Porter said.
"Certain movements of money were reported as transfers but didn't happen," he said. "Others were moved but never disclosed."
He said Migden's failure to accurately report transfers could have scared away potential challengers by misleading them into believing that she had more money than she actually had.
Porter said the potential penalty comes to $9 million because the FPPC lawsuit asks for the maximum allowed for each violation. Some of those carry potential fines equal to triple the amount of money involved.
Just Rolling In It - Both Kiddie Porn King Leno & $5 Smidgen are just rolling in cash from the same Democrap Party that has bankrupted the State with its massive Patronage Possee wallowing at the public trough in Sacratomatoe.
Still - It seems that no matter how much you fine them for wrongdoing, it always is more profitable to Pimp for the Pervert / Hatemonger lobby than dare to oppose their Sick Hatreds and Vile Perversions, which is the only truly Ungood Thought Crime in modern Weimar Kalifornia.
BTW - the "emily" mentioned as a donor to $5 Smidgen is the Radical Gender Feminist / Separatist Hate Group better known as "Early Money is Like a Yeast Infection."
How True - At least with a $5 Smidgen
Ohso. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Cash flows keep all in race for Migden's seat
John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer March 26, 2008
The latest batch of campaign finance reports has a little something for everyone to crow about in the hard-fought - and expensive - Democratic clash to oust San Francisco's Carole Migden from her state Senate seat...
Leno, who has been raising money for his run against Migden for more than a year, collected more than $142,000 in the first part of this year - but he spent $244,000 in the same period on a blitz of television ads and campaign mail, leaving him with $180,000 in the bank and $87,000 in bills..
Leno, who is termed out of his Assembly seat, has received contributions from several legislative colleagues, including $3,600 from Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, and $2,000 from incoming Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles. He also received $1,000 from Democratic state Controller John Chiang and the $3,600 maximum from Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Incumbency has its advantages for Migden. Facing a $350,000 fine from the state Fair Political Practices Commission for campaign reporting violations, an ongoing legal battle with the commission over the status of $647,000 in campaign funds state officials have barred her from using, and constant attacks from Leno and Nation, Migden still managed to take in $125,000, giving her a $377,000 campaign bank account, with $19,000 in unpaid bills.
Much of Migden's money has come from labor unions, including the California Nurses Association and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. She also collected $3,000 from former state Sen. John Burton and $3,600 from Emily's List, which supports pro-choice female candidates.
Migden's fundraising could get a major boost this weekend when she seeks the official endorsement of the state Democratic Party at its convention in San Jose. If she can collect the support of more than half the delegates from her Senate district Saturday, it opens the door for official backing from the state party.
That would make it easier to gather what could be hundreds of thousands of dollars in money promised by her colleagues in the state Senate. The party endorsement could give them the official vehicle they need to back Migden in the June primary.
"Carole's been working on this endorsement for four or five months, and I don't think her opponents will be able to organize an effort to block it," Ross said.
Leno and Nation are calling delegates in an effort to keep Migden from getting the majority she needs for the endorsement. If she receives the district's nod, Leno's supporters have vowed to collect enough signatures from delegates to force an endorsement vote of all convention delegates on Sunday.
A Smidgen Rejected - Kiddie Porn King Leno Rolls In It...
SFGATE _ Matier & Ross 3/31/08 - Double whammy: State Sen. Carole Migden got hit with a one-two punch Sunday - courtesy of her rival state Assemblyman Mark Leno - when delegates to the state Democratic Party convention balked at endorsing her for a second term.
Not only was the rejection an embarrassment, but the vote also cut off one of the last big sources of money the embattled Migden was counting on in her two-front fight against fellow Democratic rivals Leno and former Assemblyman Joe Nation.
Migden - who is running third in the polls - was already under the gun after the state's Fair Political Practices Commission nixed her using $1 million in the June primary that she had raised in earlier races.
Migden and her allies in the state Senate had hoped to make up the campaign cash loss by indirectly pumping about $1.5 million into the race through the Democratic Party. But they needed the party endorsement for the play to work, and Leno pulled out all the stops to block it.
And indeed, in the wake of the vote, word out of Sacramento was that some of the labor groups backing the liberal Migden may now turn their attention - and their money - into stopping the more moderate Nation instead.
Posted on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 17:26 — by Caladan
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The sad part is who keeps electing these Bozos!.....We the People!
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We just need to make her and Perata car pool together. It is the arrogance of political power that bugs me. The "Do you know who I am?" stuff. Unfortunately most of the people running I'd never vote for. And the ones that I would vote for won't run. It is not exclusive to any one party. I wish they would stop spending my money like a ship load of drunken sailors. On second thought, I appologize to drunken sailors. They at least would feel some remorse the next day and understand that it was wrong. Peas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl: This place got a pool? Ty: Pool and a pond....... Pond be good for you.
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Yes many are drunk on the power while with others it's more like an acid trip. As for spending it's all about getting what they want, after all it's not their money.---------------That's just my opinion, but I could be Wrong.
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Pay the fine out of campaign funds? That doesn't sound like much of a fine to me. Maybe she should have been fined personally as well.
Speaking of Sacramento politics, the next Assembly member for Lamorinda will effectively be chosen at the June statewide election. How many voters in this area even know who the candidates are, or where they stand on the issues? I guess they have all written Lamorinda off.
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"Kiddie Porn King" Leno Triumphant - For Now... The ugly fight between 'Kiddie Porn King Mark Leno and Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden has hit bottom (pun intended) and started digging deeper in the dirt.
Smidgen - who once boasted upon becoming Chair of the Senate Appropriations committee: " Anybody who wants $5 is going to have to come to this Dyke and Beg for it" (this before the "Ghost Vote" and Freeway Rampage incidents) will have paid about $500K all totaled for various illegal acts during campaigns - which is just a Smidgen of chump change when compared to the Funds shoveled towards this New York Carpetbagger / Lavender Mafiosa by the Weimar Kalifornia Lobbies looking to wallow at her personal tax trough.
Still - The "Kiddie Porn King" may have won a phyrric victory, if the main outcome is to turn the Dyke Hatemonger Coven in Sodom by the Sea against him (more than even their traditional hatred of Men - even Homo-Anal Males), as they have proven the more powerful of the two homosex political power clusters - given that Leno's Coprophile Cult of Feces Focused Homo-Anal Perversions keeps on buggering themselves to death at a much greater rate..
Best keep quiet about it though, wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia," what with everything else going around and all. Ohso In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Calif. campaign watchdog commission fines state lawmaker $350,000 By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, (AP) -- The state's political ethics commission has approved a record $350,000 fine for a state senator who admitted repeatedly violating California's campaign finance laws.
The Fair Political Practices Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to impose the penalty on Sen. Carole Migden. FPPC officials said it was the largest fine ever levied by the commission in its 33-year history. Migden, a San Francisco Democrat, signed a stipulation on Monday admitting 89 violations of the state's Political Reform Act from 2003 to 2007, including using more than $16,000 in campaign donations for personal purposes.
Other violations included failing to report tens of thousands of dollars in contributions on time, understating more than $236,000 in campaign receipts and nearly the same amount in expenditures, failing to keep proper records and failing to spell out credit card charges.
Ross Johnson, a former state senator who chairs the commission, said Migden's violations showed her "complete disdain" for California's campaign finance laws.
James Harrison, an attorney representing Migden, said Tuesday that the violations stemmed from the senator's focus on her legislative duties and her battle with leukemia.
Harrison said Migden conducted her own review of her campaign finances after she was fined $16,000 by the commission in 2006 for failing to file timely campaign reports. She then voluntarily reported additional violations to the FPPC, Harrison said.te
Commissioner Robert Leidigh cast the only vote against the fine. He objected to an arrangement that gives Migden up to a year to pay $250,000 of the penalty, saying the commission should order her to pay all the money immediately.
Migden already has paid $100,000 out of her own money rather than tapping campaign funds.
A commission spokesman, Roman Porter, said staff members could not recall another case in which anyone had paid that high a fine out of their own pocket.
The FPPC's action doesn't end Migden's troubles with the FPPC. She is suing the commission for the right to use $670,000 in an old campaign account for her primary election fight against two fellow Democrats, Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco and former Assemblyman Joe Nation of San Rafael.
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DiFi & $5 Smidgen - A Pair to Draw To... The need to replenish the war chest of Power Dyke / Legislative Lavender Mafiosa - Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden, in the wake of the most recent chump change fines for her illegal acts, has stirred the heavyweights of the Democrap Machine to beat the bushes for more contributions.
Hence Di Fi (Senator Diane Feinstein) is showing her solidarity (and lack of concern for campaign ethics) by standing alongside State Senator Smidgen - who (before the Ghost Vote & Freeway Rampage incidents) boasted upon becoming Chair of the Senate Appropriations committee: "Anybody who wants $5 is going to have to come to this Dyke and Beg for it."
Bravo Di Fi - this probably gets you off the hook with the Dyke Coven after having a "Pink Brick" thrown at her by the Log Packin Republicans after certain ungood comments....
Although I expect that the Coprophile Caucus of "Kiddie Porn King" Mark Leno may be less than enthused at the quick replenishment of $5 Smidgen's campaign coffers after such a supreme effort to empty them.
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"Kiddie Porn King" Leno Triumphant - For Now...
The ugly fight for a State Senate seat between "Kiddie Porn King" / termed out assemblyman - Mark Leno, and current Senator Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden has truly hit bottom (pun intended) and started digging deeper in the dirt.
Smidgen - who once boasted upon becoming Chair of the Senate Appropriations committee: " Anybody who wants $5 is going to have to come to this Dyke and Beg for it" (this before the "Ghost Vote" and Freeway Rampage incidents) will have paid about $500K all totaled for various illegal acts during recent campaigns - which is just a Smidgen of Chump Change compared to the political action funds shoveled towards this New York Carpetbagger / Lavender Mafiosa by the various Weimar Kalifornia Lobbies looking to wallow at her personal tax trough.
Still - The "Kiddie Porn King" Leno, who filed the original complaint, may have won a phyrric victory, particularly if the main outcome is to turn the Dyke Hatemonger Coven in Sodom by the Sea against him (more than even their traditional hatred of Men - even their ostensible Homo-Anal Male 'allies'); as they have proven to be the more powerful of the two homosex political power clusters in the Democrap Machine - given that Leno's Coprophile Cult of Homo-Anal Perversions keeps on buggering themselves to death at a much greater rate.
None of which gives any problems to another Frisco Icon - Di Fi (US Senator Diane Feinstein), who is happy to help Smidgen raise funds to pay fines and run campaigns, all as a sign of solidarity with the Twysted Systerhood. After all, it was the Homo-Anal contingent in the Log Packin Republicans who voted to throw a "Pink Brick" at Di Fi not to long ago, and she is still probably smarting from it.
Best keep quiet about it though, wouldn't want to spread any "Ism-Obia," what with everything else going around and all.
Ohso In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Calif. campaign watchdog commission fines state lawmaker $350,000 By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, (AP) -- The state's political ethics commission has approved a record $350,000 fine for a state senator who admitted repeatedly violating California's campaign finance laws.
The Fair Political Practices Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to impose the penalty on Sen. Carole Migden. FPPC officials said it was the largest fine ever levied by the commission in its 33-year history. Migden, a San Francisco Democrat, signed a stipulation on Monday admitting 89 violations of the state's Political Reform Act from 2003 to 2007, including using more than $16,000 in campaign donations for personal purposes.
Other violations included failing to report tens of thousands of dollars in contributions on time, understating more than $236,000 in campaign receipts and nearly the same amount in expenditures, failing to keep proper records and failing to spell out credit card charges.
Ross Johnson, a former state senator who chairs the commission, said Migden's violations showed her "complete disdain" for California's campaign finance laws.
James Harrison, an attorney representing Migden, said Tuesday that the violations stemmed from the senator's focus on her legislative duties and her battle with leukemia.
Harrison said Migden conducted her own review of her campaign finances after she was fined $16,000 by the commission in 2006 for failing to file timely campaign reports. She then voluntarily reported additional violations to the FPPC, Harrison said.te
Commissioner Robert Leidigh cast the only vote against the fine. He objected to an arrangement that gives Migden up to a year to pay $250,000 of the penalty, saying the commission should order her to pay all the money immediately.
Migden already has paid $100,000 out of her own money rather than tapping campaign funds.
A commission spokesman, Roman Porter, said staff members could not recall another case in which anyone had paid that high a fine out of their own pocket.
The FPPC's action doesn't end Migden's troubles with the FPPC. She is suing the commission for the right to use $670,000 in an old campaign account for her primary election fight against two fellow Democrats, Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco and former Assemblyman Joe Nation of San Rafael. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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A fine ding: The $350,000 penalty that the California Fair Political Practices Commission hit state Sen. Carole Migden with Tuesday was the biggest ever levied against a state legislator - and it didn't take long for campaign rival Mark Leno's operatives to start figuring how to spin it.
"The most fined legislator in history. Eighty-nine violations. Thirty-five pages," said political consultant John Whitehurst, ticking off the possibilities. Whitehurst works for Assemblyman Leno, who - along with former Assemblyman Joe Nation of Marin County - is challenging Migden for her District 3 Senate seat in the June 3 Democratic primary. Migden, already on the ropes over her demolition derby driving habits, got dinged by the state watchdog agency for sloppy bookkeeping of campaign funds.
Its investigation, prompted by a complaint from Leno, also found that $16,317 of Migden's campaign cash spending had no "political, legislative or governmental purpose." The commission hasn't said just how the money was used, but Migden attorney James Harrison told us some of it was just the senator inadvertently using the wrong credit card. And "some of it was in a gray area that could have been argued was political, but the senator just decided to reimburse the money," Harrison said. Migden says she'll pay the fine, and the five commissioners will vote Thursday on whether to OK the deal. As for how Migden plans to respond to her opponents' impending attacks: "We're not saying anything until after the commission votes," said campaign manager Richie Ross. "Once that's done, then we'll deal with the rough and tumble of the politics." By the way, before news of Migden's fine hit, women's groups sent out invites for a big $100- to $1,000-a-head fundraiser for the senator March 27 - with Sen. Dianne Feinstein as the featured guest.
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Legislative Lavender Mafiosa Carole '$5 Smidgen' Migden is back on the big money power dyke track after a few minor ms.steps, and eager to represent Sodom by the Sea Values in a Weimar Kalifornia Legislature that is truly not fit to pass gas, although they do pass the hat for 'contributions' quite well... Ohso >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mateer & Ross SFGAte 3/23: Migden's money: "It was a bad week personally and financially, but I'm not hiding in any shell," an upbeat state Sen. Carole Migden told us Friday as she headed off for another weekend of campaigning. Brave words, considering the Democratic demolition derby queen had just shelled out $100,000 from her own pocket in the first installment of a $350,000 fine leveled last week by the state's Fair Political Practices Commission.
The commission found Migden, D-San Francisco, had committed 89 campaign-spending violations in recent years involving nearly $400,000, much of it credit card spending that was never itemized. Migden, who was fined $94,000 by the same commission back in 2006, said she planned to pay the "bulk" of the latest fine with her own money. By law, she can dip into her campaign funds for the cash. "I own a couple of condos," Migden said. "I'll take out a mortgage." The question is whether Migden will keep paying politically in the June primary, when she faces a strong re-election challenge from Assemblyman Mark Leno and former Assemblyman Joe Nation. "People don't really care about things like this - they care about the work you do," Migden said. "I can only face up to it, say I'm sorry and move on." That - and find another $250,000. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
California: Campaigns waste lots of money JOHN DIAZ SFGate March 23, 2008 . Unless, of course, your senator is Carole Migden of San Francisco. Her serial defiance of campaign reporting laws last week resulted in the largest fine in the history of the state's Fair Political Practices Commission: $350,000. Migden admitted to 89 violations of the Political Reform Act, including personal use of campaign funds.
Even more striking than the magnitude of the case against Migden is the evasiveness of her answers about the many thousands of dollars of credit card purchases in dispute. After all, the law is decidedly lenient about interpreting campaign expenses, as the jet-ski travel illustrates. Pressed for an example of a purchase that fell into what her attorney called "a gray area," Migden said, "I don't know."]
Now think about her answer. If you're Carole Migden, and you're locked in an extremely tough re-election campaign against two experienced and appealing politicians, Mark Leno and Joe Nation - and you are paying the first $100,000 installment of the fine out of your own pocket - don't you think you would know exactly what the expenditures in question were? Of course you would.
A potentially greater problem for Migden is the FPPC's attempt to prevent her from using $647,000 in surplus funds from her past campaigns for state Assembly and the Board of Equalization. Migden already spent more than $300,000 from those accounts, even though she failed to transfer the money before leaving the Assembly, as required by law, according to the FPPC. Migden has sued the FPPC, arguing that the state-imposed deadline was "arbitrary" and unconstitutionally infringed on her free speech. A fundamental question is whether it's fair or ethical to use money from past campaigns, for other offices, in her 2008 Senate race. After all, some of the Democrats who contributed to her campaigns for Assembly or Board of Equalization may also be dedicated allies of Nation or Leno - and may prefer one of them over her this year. Migden danced around questions about the ethics involved in tapping funds from races that predated the current limits on donations. "We obeyed the law" is all she would say. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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I have met Ms. Migden personally. When she is not given her way or rules are not broken for her convience she can and did become very irrate. When I see her name it sends chills down my back every time I think of her "representing" Californians in the Stae government. _______________________________ Don't confuse kindness with weakness.
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California ethics agency sues state senator, seeks $9 million
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer March 25, 2008
California's political watchdog agency filed a $9 million lawsuit Tuesday against state Sen. Carole Migden, accusing the San Francisco Democrat of consistent and deliberate violations of the state's campaign finance laws.
"For years, Senator Migden has been deceiving the voters of California by filing inaccurate campaign statements, fabricating the elimination of committees and concealing campaign funds," Ross Johnson, chairman of the Fair Political Practices Commission, said in a statement.
"The sophisticated and pervasive pattern of deception by her various controlled committees has been ongoing for more than five years."...
The commission's lawsuit comes a little more than a week after Migden admitted making a separate series of campaign violations and agreed to pay a record $350,000 fine.
The action was filed in federal court in Sacramento in response to a lawsuit Migden filed earlier this month over whether she could tap the $647,000 left over from her campaigns when she was in the state Assembly.
She is facing a tough primary challenge for re-election to the Senate from two fellow Democrats — Assemblyman Mark Leno of San Francisco and former Assemblyman Joe Nation of San Rafael. She wanted to use the money from her Assembly account for the primary race in advance of the June 3 election...
"Migden, for the last five years, has illegally used surplus campaign funds without notifying anyone," Porter said. The commission's countersuit goes beyond the debate over use of the $647,000. It also accuses Migden of "massive instances of misreporting information and movement of money," Porter said.
"Certain movements of money were reported as transfers but didn't happen," he said. "Others were moved but never disclosed."
He said Migden's failure to accurately report transfers could have scared away potential challengers by misleading them into believing that she had more money than she actually had.
Porter said the potential penalty comes to $9 million because the FPPC lawsuit asks for the maximum allowed for each violation. Some of those carry potential fines equal to triple the amount of money involved.
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Just Rolling In It - Both Kiddie Porn King Leno & $5 Smidgen are just rolling in cash from the same Democrap Party that has bankrupted the State with its massive Patronage Possee wallowing at the public trough in Sacratomatoe.
Still - It seems that no matter how much you fine them for wrongdoing, it always is more profitable to Pimp for the Pervert / Hatemonger lobby than dare to oppose their Sick Hatreds and Vile Perversions, which is the only truly Ungood Thought Crime in modern Weimar Kalifornia.
BTW - the "emily" mentioned as a donor to $5 Smidgen is the Radical Gender Feminist / Separatist Hate Group better known as "Early Money is Like a Yeast Infection."
How True - At least with a $5 Smidgen
Ohso. In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Cash flows keep all in race for Migden's seat John Wildermuth, Chronicle Staff Writer March 26, 2008
The latest batch of campaign finance reports has a little something for everyone to crow about in the hard-fought - and expensive - Democratic clash to oust San Francisco's Carole Migden from her state Senate seat...
Leno, who has been raising money for his run against Migden for more than a year, collected more than $142,000 in the first part of this year - but he spent $244,000 in the same period on a blitz of television ads and campaign mail, leaving him with $180,000 in the bank and $87,000 in bills..
Leno, who is termed out of his Assembly seat, has received contributions from several legislative colleagues, including $3,600 from Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, D-Los Angeles, and $2,000 from incoming Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles. He also received $1,000 from Democratic state Controller John Chiang and the $3,600 maximum from Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony.
Incumbency has its advantages for Migden. Facing a $350,000 fine from the state Fair Political Practices Commission for campaign reporting violations, an ongoing legal battle with the commission over the status of $647,000 in campaign funds state officials have barred her from using, and constant attacks from Leno and Nation, Migden still managed to take in $125,000, giving her a $377,000 campaign bank account, with $19,000 in unpaid bills.
Much of Migden's money has come from labor unions, including the California Nurses Association and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. She also collected $3,000 from former state Sen. John Burton and $3,600 from Emily's List, which supports pro-choice female candidates.
Migden's fundraising could get a major boost this weekend when she seeks the official endorsement of the state Democratic Party at its convention in San Jose. If she can collect the support of more than half the delegates from her Senate district Saturday, it opens the door for official backing from the state party.
That would make it easier to gather what could be hundreds of thousands of dollars in money promised by her colleagues in the state Senate. The party endorsement could give them the official vehicle they need to back Migden in the June primary.
"Carole's been working on this endorsement for four or five months, and I don't think her opponents will be able to organize an effort to block it," Ross said. Leno and Nation are calling delegates in an effort to keep Migden from getting the majority she needs for the endorsement. If she receives the district's nod, Leno's supporters have vowed to collect enough signatures from delegates to force an endorsement vote of all convention delegates on Sunday.
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A Smidgen Rejected - Kiddie Porn King Leno Rolls In It... SFGATE _ Matier & Ross 3/31/08 - Double whammy: State Sen. Carole Migden got hit with a one-two punch Sunday - courtesy of her rival state Assemblyman Mark Leno - when delegates to the state Democratic Party convention balked at endorsing her for a second term.
Not only was the rejection an embarrassment, but the vote also cut off one of the last big sources of money the embattled Migden was counting on in her two-front fight against fellow Democratic rivals Leno and former Assemblyman Joe Nation.
Migden - who is running third in the polls - was already under the gun after the state's Fair Political Practices Commission nixed her using $1 million in the June primary that she had raised in earlier races. Migden and her allies in the state Senate had hoped to make up the campaign cash loss by indirectly pumping about $1.5 million into the race through the Democratic Party. But they needed the party endorsement for the play to work, and Leno pulled out all the stops to block it. And indeed, in the wake of the vote, word out of Sacramento was that some of the labor groups backing the liberal Migden may now turn their attention - and their money - into stopping the more moderate Nation instead.
Either way - Leno comes out ahead.
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