Patrick McGreevy writes in today's LA Times about friends and family members of office-holders getting state jobs. Among them is Marisela Villar, daughter
of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who state taxpayers pay $68,000 annually to work out of a Santa Ana state office for Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, pictured together.
Villar, whose father is a former Assembly speaker, was hired by one of Villaraigosa's friends, then-Assembly Speaker
Fabian Nuñez, in 2006 to arrange community meeti
Duvall ran from reporters today in the capitolSACRAMENTO--Freshmen legislators arriving in
Sacramento receive advice from veteran politicians about the intricacies of
working in California's capital. One of those tips is to remember that
microphones broadcasting legislative debates can also capture embarrassing, career-ending
personal admissions if a politician isn't careful. Michael D. Duvall, Orange
County's 72nd Assembly District representative, must have forgotten the
warning.In Ju
Dean of state Assembly speakers Wille BrownIf Mike Duvall took his marching orders from Willie Brown instead of Scott Baugh, the disgraced Yorba Linda Republican would still be a member of the state Assembly.
Baugh, chairman of the Orange County GOP, immediately called on Duvall to resign amid the sex-with-lobbyists scandal, and Duvall dutifully obliged.
But Brown, the liberal dean of California state Assembly speakers, says, "Republican Assemblyman Mike 'Spanky' Duvall's decision to
Mike Duvall before . . . you know."Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."Al Pacino famously said that in Godfather III, but former Assemblyman Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) could just as easily be muttering that to himself now.That's because the Orange County Register's Total Buzz politics blog reports that Legislative Counsel, the attorneys for the State
Legislature, issued an opinion today saying that the Assembly Ethics
Committee doesn't have jurisdiction to investigate Duvall
"Open Mike" DuvallA day after the Assembly Ethics Committee and Assembly Speaker Karen Bass announced they will not go after disgraced former Assemblyman Mike Duvall, California Attorney General Jerry Brown revealed today he doesn't plan to investigate the Yorba Linda Republican either.In other Duvall news, five candidates have reportedly qualified to run in a November special election for the Assembly seat he vacated.
Probolsky: Let's blame OC Weekly!Desiree Mouzoon, the Orange County Republican fundraiser salaciously tied to disgraced ex-state assemblyman Mike Duvall in a Wednesday KCBS-KCAL report, has finally spoken. Well, not exactly. Mouzoon apparently has hired Jones Day--the law firm that unsuccessfully defended dirty ex-Sheriff Mike Carona for his crimes in office--to threaten local news outlets which mention the report that the woman had been caught in a "compromising position" with Duvall.In a le
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass won't do it. Attorney General Jerry Brown won't do it.And now, California's official political watchdog institution, the Fair Political Practices Commission, has announced it, too, will not be making an official inquiry into the conduct of drippy, disgraced former Assemblyman Mike Duvall.Watchdog nonprofit Common Cause submitted a request to the FPPC for an official investigation into the man caught on camera bragging graphically about having sex with a lobbyist. T
