Just talking to a friend in Sacramento, catching up on the latest gossip, and he pointed me to my favorite hypocrite, Don Perata, CA State Senator from Alameda County.<\/p>\n
Perata is a mainstream, pro-union, pro-environment, anti-gun Democrat. Who has a CCW<\/a> (Concealed Weapons Permit – something random citizens like myself basically can’t get unless we live in a rural county). Now there’s nothing immoral about being anti-gun. I certainly don’t think there’s anything immoral about getting a CCW; I don’t doubt that I’d find one handy.<\/p>\n But being a leader in restricting gun rights in the Legislature while demanding those same rights for oneself – that’s pretty creepy no matter which side of the issue you’re on.<\/p>\n But that’s old news.<\/p>\n The new news is even better. It appears that not only has he steered significant business to a local political consulting firm, Staples Associates, owned by local political consultant Timothy Staples – but he’s been on Staples’ payroll at the same time, to the tune<\/a> of a ” target=”browser”>$100,000 a year or so<\/a>. <\/p>\n I can’t begin to put an innocent construction on this; commenters are welcome to try.<\/p>\n Now just to put it in perspective, he’s a piker compared to our neighbors to the North. The Canadian Liberal Democratic Party apparently had a hundred-million dollar slush fund<\/a>, which is being investigated as we speak.<\/p>\n