The Senate Journal from September 17th contained Senator Rod Wright‘s resignation letter (which went into effect on September 22nd). September 15, 2014 Dear Mr. Schmidt: Effective September 22, 2014, I hereby resign from the California State Senate. Sincerely, RODERICK D. WRIGHT Some thoughts about Wright’s letter; Wright was the first since Senator John J. Benoit in […]
Explaining Things to a Fellow
There is nothing like meeting new Fellows to make you feel ancient. You try to explain how things were three Assemblyman Allens ago, but some things are hard to explain. When I got here, we still had legislators who had started before term limits. Heck, we even had one Assemblyman who started in the legislature […]
Those we lost in 2014
John Vasconcellos, the second longest serving member of the California Legislature (with 38 years), was one of the notables to leave us in 2014. Another was State Treasurer Bert A. Betts, who as a B-24 pilot in WWII, flew “30 consecutive missions over Germany and enemy occupied territory without once failing to complete a mission.” […]
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