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
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
